The Hamilton, Texas City Manager, claims the police didn't threaten her or forcibly remove the sign, but that "a police member visited the owner's home, and the owner asked the officer to take the sign."
Minds and dollars are a terrible thing to waste.
"We consistently allow the government to develop…programs like this that sound really great on paper but have no practical benefit," Keith Bradford says.
A new class about what to expect at a traffic stop is being mandated for all high school students.
Surprise: If you work very, very hard at fooling people, you will often succeed.
When the ground strategy failed, police turned to the air.
"This is such an absurd contortion of Title IX that I suspect even those filing the complaint know it's unlikely to succeed as a matter of law."
School's back in session, and that it means time for reports of crummy government-approved school lunches
The irony is that she's protesting authoritarian police behavior.
"For civil disobedience to be praiseworthy and serious, protestors must be willing to bear the costs of the then-extant sanctions."
California in a nutshell: Laws that "feel good" but don't work pass. One that might actually help kids gets vetoed.
"Can a faculty member now never speak on the character of an ex-student when they are in trouble with the law?"
"Solutions won't come from new laws from Washington, D.C., or from a speech police at the U.S. Department of Education."
Actually, the average salary for public-school teachers is close to the median income for U.S. households.
The Office for Civil Rights decision is in some ways opaque and equivocal, but the message to universities seems pretty powerful -- such decisions about enforcing Title VI of the Civil Rights of Act may turn on whether the university tolerates certain criticisms of Israel that OCR has now labeled "anti-Semitic."
Jason Washington was killed after trying to pick up his legal firearm from the ground.
"I think if a student is really unsettled and anxious because of it you should probably make it something less stressful."
The weird interrelationship between harassment law and campus free speech
If you believe that unconstitutional speech codes are a scandal at public universities, two recent cases should worry you.
"It was explained to them why this is hate speech and that it is offensive and triggering."
A very brief history of the rise and fall (and potential rise again) of campus speech codes. [UPDATE: Very sorry, at first accidentally labeled this as my post -- it's actually Greg Lukianoff's & Adam Goldstein's.]
A California cop arrested some victims of bullying because they were unresponsive during mediation.
"He remembers falling to the ground, his muscles betraying his mind's desire to stand. Then he remembers nothing."
At behest of a feminist professor, an academic journal's board reportedly threatened to "harass the journal until it died."
Campus mental health, freedom of speech, and government policy.
There is no "clearly established" First Amendment rights of public university professional school students to engage in such speech, a federal court holds.
Those tykes are worth big bucks to institutional educators, so if you don't hand 'em over, you might be slapped with fines or even incarceration.
The top-paid OSU diversity czar makes $265,000.
The policy -- here, applied to someone passing out religious valentines -- also bans "signs ... with offensive content," and more generally limits even nonoffensive signs and leafleting to a narrow "free speech zone."
An important new book by my colleague Justin Driver, which should be of interest of all who follow constitutional law
Frats already break the law by serving alcohol to underage students. Why would a ban on hard liquor be any different?
Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff explain how "good intentions and bad ideas" have made young people super-fragile-and how to make things better.
"We are unable to find significant statistical evidence that preexisting growth in diversity... is affected by hiring an executive level diversity officer."
Homeschoolers are increasingly ridding themselves not just of schools but of traditional notions about schooling.
Plus: Why Jordan Peterson may be right about postmodern neo-Marxism.
The ballot initiative, which would have raised money for education by hiking taxes on the wealthy, "creates a significant danger of confusion or unfairness."
Uncensored author and new college grad Zachary R. Wood explains why his generation is so scared of viewpoint diversity.
A judge sides with a Brown University student who says the Title IX process was unfair and discriminatory.
The Department of Education's data on school shootings is riddled with inaccuracies.
Benjamin Paul is a single father, a college graduate, an ordained minister, and a career adviser. And he's an ex-con.
Both right and left decry implicit government discrimination on the basis of religion when it targets groups they sympathize with. But both are all too ready to turn a blind eye in other cases.
Play an augmented-reality zombie shooter in a school halllway, go to jail.
"Okay, officially, I now hate white people" is a gross statement that deserves First Amendment protection.
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