The Wyoming Supreme Court held that outdated teacher-salary and inflation funding violated equal protection, but narrowed the trial court’s broader school-funding remedies.
The Commonwealth Court reinstated a school board’s nonresidency finding but held that the record could not support tuition charges for months after the residency hearing.
The Supreme Court held that the pleaded facts were sufficient to proceed on a narrow constitutional theory: a school board may not be deliberately indifferent to extreme in-school conduct that deprives a student of equal access to a sound basic education. The Court also found immediate appellate jurisdiction based on the risk of inconsistent verdicts, reversed the contrary ruling, and remanded.
The Utah Court of Appeals held that FERPA governed disclosure of a school video and that allowing parents to view it satisfied the district’s duty.
The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals reversed a hearing officer’s order, holding that a school board provided adequate due process notice of a termination hearing by serving the employee’s attorney of record, and that internal miscommunication among the employee’s multiple lawyers did not create a constitutional violation.
Appellate Division reverses, declaring teacher acquired tenure by estoppel when Department of Education failed to timely discontinue employment before expiration of extended probationary period.
The North Carolina Court of Appeals affirmed denial of a school board’s motion to dismiss a SAFE Child Act revival claim, holding that the ten-year repose period in N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-52(16) applies only to latent injuries (not sexual assault) and that governmental immunity is not established at the pleading stage when the record leaves an unexplained gap in insurance coverage for any year in which the alleged abuse occurred.