Court Cases Education

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.

SACRAMENTO, CA – A federal court dismissed a First Amendment lawsuit today after a Northern California school district agreed to a settlement with a mother who charged the district with barring her from her son’s elementary school.

TUCSON, AZ – A federal court of appeals Monday dismissed a request by Tucson education officials to end a decades-long desegregation case because the district failed to make that request in a lower court.

LOS ANGELES – Adelanto Elementary School District board members voted earlier this week to switch from an at-large election system to a single-member system in response to a letter from MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) warning that the district was in violation of the California Voting Rights Act (CVRA).

BAKERSFIELD, Ca.  – A coalition of Latino and Black students, their parents, community groups and the Kern County Office of Education (KCOE) have reached a settlement of a lawsuit involving a dispute over the enrollment of students in KCOE-operated schools.

TUCSON, AZ – A federal court of appeals should dismiss a request by Tucson education officials to end a decades-long desegregation case because the district failed to make that request in the lower court, according to a motion filed today by Latino students.

LOS ANGELES — The New Mexico Public Education Department has publicly stated that it intends to appeal a court ruling that the state has failed to live up to its constitutional obligation to provide a sufficient education to all students and must implement a remedial plan by next April. Please attribute the following statement to Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund):

Santa Fe, NM – A state court ruled today that New Mexico’s education system violates the state constitution because it fails to provide students a sufficient public education.