Supreme Court decisions affect educators, students and working families every day. Find out how we “graded” key decisions ...

The decisions so far show that the conservative court isn’t going to act as a resistance to an increasingly autocratic ...

Even when explicitly segregationist laws were absent, courts often refused to challenge exclusionary practices if they did not violate the letter of equal protection under the 14th Amendment. That ...

Education – in 1982, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 vote (Plyler v. Doe), decided that children are entitled to attend public ...

Readers react to an award for a law student’s essay claiming that the rights recognized in the Constitution apply only to white people. Also: Climate change.

The US Supreme Court on Monday granted review, vacated the underlying decision, and sent back to a federal appeals court a ...

In a June 27 ruling, the Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s request to partially halt nationwide injunctions ...

Decades before Mahmoud v. Taylor, parents sought to opt their children out from textbooks, sex ed programs and health classes ...

But this modern understanding of “birthright citizenship” isn’t what the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment intended — and ...