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COVID-19 Brings School Funding Inequities and Litigation Front and Center

by Katharine Bohrs | Nov 5, 2020 | Amicus, Education & Youth

Last week, in a letter to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi outlined priorities for negotiating COVID-related stimulus and programmatic plans. On her short list: funding for public K-12 schools. In the 2008 Recession, schools were hit...

U.S. Department of Education Sends Mixed Messages on Bostock’s Application to Transgender Students Under Title IX

by Katharine Bohrs | Oct 16, 2020 | Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Education & Youth, LGBTQ Rights, Sex Equality

In June of this year in its Bostock v. Clayton County decision, the Supreme Court held for the first time that Title VII’s prohibition on sex discrimination in employment also prohibits discrimination against an individual based on their sexual orientation or...

AS GOVERNORS EMPLOY THEIR AUTHORITY TO MEET COVID-19 CHALLENGES, GREG ABBOTT STANDS OUT FOR HIS POLITICAL OPPORTUNISM

by Katharine Bohrs | Apr 23, 2020 | Amicus, Criminal Justice, Executive Branch, Legislation, Reproductive Rights

Photo credit: Eddie Gaspar/The Texas Tribune The spread of coronavirus and the COVID-19 pandemic that came with it has raised countless problems in the areas of education, public health, economic policy, elections, and more. An additional issue overlaying all of these...

WELCOME TO THIS WEEK IN CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES

by Katharine Bohrs | Apr 20, 2020 | Amicus, Weekly News Roundup

Welcome to This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. This week, COVID-19 has caused some legislative efforts to come to a halt, while raising new concerns over state power and civil rights and liberties. The public health impacts have highlighted race inequities...

COVID-19 SCHOOL CLOSURES PRESENT UNCERTAINTIES IN SPECIAL EDUCATION ENTITLEMENTS

by Katharine Bohrs | Mar 25, 2020 | Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Education & Youth

At this point, many of us are in our second week of social distancing due to the spread of COVID-19. Increasingly, K-12 public schools and school districts across the country have closed for a period of time to prevent students from coming to school and gathering in...

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