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Highlights from the Department’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Concerning Athletic Eligibility

By John W. Borkowski, Aleks Ostojic Rushing & Mackenzie Conway
July 28, 2023
Choosing your way

On April 6, 2023, the U.S. Department of Education released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM), which was published in the Federal Register on April 13, 2023, on athletic eligibility under Title IX. The express aim of the proposed rule…

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U.S. Department of Education: A Close Look at the Office for Civil Rights Fiscal Year 2022 Annual Report for K-12 Education

By John W. Borkowski, Aleks Ostojic Rushing & Naomie Kweyu
May 17, 2023

On May 1, 2023, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) released its annual report for Fiscal Year 2022. The FY 2022 report focused on civil rights complaints, proactive compliance reviews, technical assistance presentations, and revised policies and regulations. The highlight…

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The Intersection of School Dress Code Policies and Title IX

By Aleks Ostojic Rushing, John W. Borkowski & Mackenzie Conway
January 11, 2023

School districts often have gender-based dress codes, outlining specific requirements for students such as mandating a particular skirt length for female students or prohibiting muscle shirts for male students. In late 2022, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a…

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Florida Judge Pauses Enforcement of Florida’s Individual Freedom Act

By John W. Borkowski, Aleks Ostojic Rushing & Mackenzie Conway
December 15, 2022

On November 17, 2022, a federal judge in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida entered a temporary injunction against portions of Florida’s Individual Freedom Act that restricts how Florida’s public college and university professors present…

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Affirmative Action: The Possible K-12 Impacts of the Supreme Court Cases Involving Harvard and UNC

By John W. Borkowski, Aleks Ostojic Rushing & Naomie Kweyu
November 15, 2022

On October 31, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States (“SCOTUS” or “the Court”) heard oral arguments in two cases challenging the race-conscious student admissions policies used by Harvard University and the University of North Carolina (“UNC”) to promote…

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Title IX’s Reach May Expand: Application to Non-Profits and Schools Not Accepting Federal Funding

By John W. Borkowski, Aleks Ostojic Rushing & Mackenzie Conway
October 25, 2022

In July 2022, two federal district courts on opposite sides of the country issued opinions that have the potential to have a major impact on non-profits and schools not accepting federal funding throughout the country.…

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Livin’ on a Prayer: Supreme Court to Hear Case of Football Coach who Lost Job for Praying

By John W. Borkowski, Aleks Ostojic Rushing & Claire Hawley
January 26, 2022
Judicial court building white marble and pillars.

On January 14, 2022, the Supreme Court granted certiorari to determine whether a school district was within its rights in telling a coach not to continue to kneel and pray at the 50-yard line after his team’s games.…

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What’s in a name?: Federal Court in Indiana Dismisses Teacher’s Religious Discrimination Over the Use of Students’ Preferred Names

By John W. Borkowski, Aleks Ostojic Rushing & Catarina Colón
July 23, 2021
Group of Children in a Circle

John Kluge, a former music and orchestra teacher at Brownsburg Community School Corporation (“BCSC”) allegedly was forced to resign after refusing to refer to transgender students by the names selected by the students, their parents, and their healthcare providers due…

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Supreme Court Rules on Student Off Campus Speech: Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L.

By John W. Borkowski, Aleks Ostojic Rushing, Skye Parr, Catarina Colón & Mackenzie Conway
July 15, 2021
Cheer Megaphone

On June 23, 2020, in an 8-1 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the Mahanoy Area School District’s decision to suspend a student from the cheerleading team for posting vulgar language and gestures on social media (outside of school hours…

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Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L. – the student free speech case every public school administrator should know about

By Larissa Whittingham, Aleks Ostojic Rushing & John W. Borkowski
May 3, 2021
Supreme Court Sunrise

On April 28th, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments in Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L., a student free speech case that every public school district in the country needs to be watching.

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