It was a big month for the United State Department of Education. Early in August federal courts cleared the way for the DOE's proposed reform of Title IX. The new regulations took effect on August 15. Action was overdue. Since Title IX’s passage in 1972 the...
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Graham v. Friedlander and the Plight of Trial Judges
In February, in Graham v. Friedlander, 334 Conn. 564 (2020), Connecticut's Supreme Court considered the state’s power over poor teaching. In the same opinion it weighed judges’ authority to throw out parents’ claims. It found both surprisingly limited. The plaintiffs...
A New Right to Literacy?
For fifty years different parents have tried to get a court to say their children had a right to a better school. This month one group finally succeeded. A federal court ordered their schools to make their kids literate. The winning parents came from Detroit. The...