August, 2011
Immigrant Students’ Rights to Attend Public Schools
Immigrant Students’ Rights to Attend Public Schools School Opening Alert As a new school year begins, this alert is a reminder that public schools, by law, must serve all children. The education of undocumented students is guaranteed by the Plyler vs. Doe decision and certain procedures must be followed when registering immigrant children in […]
Are Pregnant Teens in Minnesota Still Being Shuffled Away From School?
August 29, 2011 http://www.publicnewsservice.org/index.php?/content/article/21914-1 ST. PAUL, Minn. – When most people hear the words “Title IX,” they think of the requirement for equality of the sexes in school sports, but the law has other implications, as well. Brigid Riley, executive director of Teenwise Minnesota, says because of Title IX, schools must provide the same educational […]
Obama’s Regulations on Sexual Assualt for College Campuses
As the young feminist professor of Psychology and Gender Studies on campus, very often when a woman gets sexually assaulted, she comes to me. This is part of my job, yet it devastates me every time it happens. And it happens a lot. I am on a community college campus mostly, and so I do […]