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On Thursday, the GOP-controlled House of Representatives passed two bills that support women and families facing an unplanned pregnancy: the Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Women and Families Act and The Pregnant Students’ Rights Act.
Published: Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 @ 9:07 am
By: Daily Wire
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A House bill requiring North Carolina public schools to teach students a unit on the Civil Rights Movement has found widespread bipartisan support among state legislators.
Published: Sunday, August 27th, 2023 @ 10:18 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) filed a federal complaint with the Department of Education’s civil rights division after a teenage girl said that her school allowed a male who identified as female to shower alongside four teenage girls in a locker room.
Published: Wednesday, July 5th, 2023 @ 7:59 am
By: Daily Wire
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The University of Minnesota was the subject of a civil rights complaint last week for enacting a research program that offers applicants a $6,000 stipend but is restricted to students of color.
Published: Tuesday, June 6th, 2023 @ 11:41 pm
By: Daily Wire
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On Tuesday, legislative Democrats held a press conference introducing “The Parents’ and Students’ Bill of Rights.” The Democrats’ bill was filed after Republicans filed the Parents’ Bill of Rights, scheduled to be considered on the N.C. Senate floor Tuesday afternoon.
Published: Monday, February 20th, 2023 @ 11:48 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The John Locke Foundation offers a Parents’ Bill of Rights to reassert parental authority over their child’s education
Published: Sunday, April 24th, 2022 @ 12:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC) law professor who was suspended after he responded to a student complaining about a test question is suing his university, alleging they violated his First Amendment rights.
Published: Monday, February 14th, 2022 @ 3:44 pm
By: Daily Wire
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David Harsanyi writes for National Review Online about bad news for college students across the nation.
Published: Tuesday, March 16th, 2021 @ 3:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A federal court has ruled in favor of a professor thrown under the bus by his public college after a Muslim student claimed the Islamic terrorism portion of a world politics class violated his Constitutional rights.
Published: Saturday, August 29th, 2020 @ 4:15 pm
By: Judicial Watch
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For nearly a decade, college students have had their constitutional rights infringed simply by stepping onto campus.
Published: Monday, May 11th, 2020 @ 10:41 am
By: Daily Wire
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On Friday, the American Civil Liberties Union came out against the Title IX reforms proposed by the Trump Department of Education, led by Betsy Devos.
Published: Sunday, November 18th, 2018 @ 5:46 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The primary benefit of the University of North Carolina system's new free-speech policy will be to protect the freedom of professors, students, and other North Carolinians to listen to whatever speakers they wish to hear without having their rights trampled by violent or abusive protestors
Published: Monday, January 8th, 2018 @ 1:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Several years ago, the La Voz de Aztlan, a radical left-wing supplement to Fresno State University's student newspaper, published a poem steeped in anti-American sentiment
Published: Sunday, May 29th, 2016 @ 4:50 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Students could face punishment, including the possibility of expulsion, for engaging in conscious acts stifling the First Amendment rights of others, and the UNC system would be required to implement free speech rules, under a plan Lt. Gov. Dan Forest hopes to turn into law.
Published: Saturday, May 7th, 2016 @ 9:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In the last few years, the rights of students in North Carolina universities have received some significant new protections
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 6:21 am
By: John William Pope Center
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In 2000, the Supreme Court ruled in Board of Regents v. Southworth that using mandatory student fees to fund student organizations and speakers does not violate the First Amendment rights of those who disagree with the content.
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 4:33 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Reforms in education, regulation, and the state tax code all generated bigger headlines. But the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is publicizing another accomplishment from the 2013 session of the N.C. General Assembly. Robert Shibley, senior vice president of FIRE, discussed the...
Published: Sunday, January 19th, 2014 @ 1:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Big things were anticipated for higher education reform in 2013 - but the sizzle turned to fizzle in many cases. Landmark court decisions got pushed off for another year, bubbles didn't quite burst, MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) did not take over vast swaths of the higher education...
Published: Saturday, December 28th, 2013 @ 1:24 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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