In the last few years, the First Amendment rights for students have seen some changes. The Supreme Court case Mahanoy v. B.L. found that schools generally do not have the right to regulate a student's off-campus speech.
The Supreme Court issued a win Wednesday for Brandi Levy, a former Mahanoy Area School District student known to court watchers as the “cussing cheerleader.” But the court’s decision made it unclear what other types of student speech a public school can censor.
Pine-Richland School District likely does not have the legal authority to discipline a high school student whose Homecoming proposal sign went viral on social media and left members of the community dismayed, according to an attorney with the Pennsylvania School Boards Association. The First Amendment likely prevents the district from
A Cherry Creek High School student has credibly alleged school officials violated his First Amendment rights when they expelled him for an offensive social media post, the federal appeals court