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Overturning School Expulsions
The rights of two African-American students were violated when they were expelled from Deer Valley High School following an off-campus incident in which police officers pepper-sprayed the students and forcefully arrested them, a judge ruled in May 2008. The judge overturned the expulsions.
By ACLU of Northern California
Stopping Abuse of Native-American Schoolchildren
It was a child's simple refusal to give up a bandana belonging to his recently deceased grandfather that led to a landmark settlement regarding discriminatory discipline against Native-American students at the hands of the Bishop Union Elementary School District (BUESD).
Bishop, located in the eastern Sierras, has a population of about 3,400, with approximately 1,500 members of the Paiute Tribe living on a nearby reservation.
Violent Incident
In October 2005, a campus police officer, also known as a school resource officer (SRO), demanded that an eighth-grader hand over the bandana he was wearing, citing the school's dress code.
By ACLU of Northern California
Tax-Exempt Bonds? Not for Pervasively Religious Schools
In the Fall of 2002, three Southern California fundamentalist schools needed money to construct new facilities. The schools discriminate in hiring and admission along religious lines and infuse every class and extracurricular activity with religion.
By ACLU of Northern California
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