Court Cases Education

 SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO –  Civil rights attorneys are asking a state court to force New Mexico education officials to come up with a plan to address longstanding deficiencies in the state’s K-12 public education system.

LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling today in (Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard, and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina) upends a 45-year-precedent that clearly affirmed the use of race as one of several considerations in admissions.

LOS ANGELES – A Latino civil rights organization is challenging the closure of elementary schools that serve high concentrations of Latino students in the Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD), according to papers filed in Los Angeles Superior Court Friday.

LOS ANGELES –  A New Mexico state court today rejected an argument by state officials that they had complied with a historic 2018 education ruling and should be released from a court’s order.

LOS ANGELES – A split panel of a federal court of appeals erred when it upheld a ruling dismissing a lawsuit filed against a principal who threatened to call immigration officials on a parent, according to civil rights attorneys.

SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO – Civil rights attorneys are asking a judge to strike a request by New Mexico officials to end a landmark education case that requires the state to address longstanding deficiencies in the K-12 public education system.

LOS ANGELES – A national civil rights organization is asking the Huntington Beach City School District to reconsider efforts to shutter a school that serves the highest concentration of Latino and socioeconomically disadvantaged students in that district.

SAN ANTONIO, TX  – MALDEF attorneys sent a letter to a Texas school district Friday warning that it was in violation of the U.S. Constitution for treating parents with foreign government-issued identification differently than parents with Texas-issued IDs.