Freedom Forum Institute > student speech
Students have the right to engage in political speech at school. Censorship is not the answer.
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In the wake of Columbine, school officials have taken to treating all violent-themed student speech as true threats.
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Thousands of people and Newseum visitors put their First Amendment freedoms in action during the March for Our Lives weekend.
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When high school students are threatened and punished for using their First Amendment rights, is it any wonder they show intolerance of free speech as they enter college?
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The Eagle Eye journalists will be in Washington, D.C., to attend the “March for Our Lives” rally on March 24.
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As the youth movement around gun control gains steam, some schools have threatened students with suspension and other consequences if they protest on school grounds.
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Newseum President and CEO Jeffrey Herbst argues that students increasingly believe in the “right to non-offensive speech.”
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The court found that a 14-year-old did not commit disorderly conduct because the explicit picture he drew was protected by the First Amendment.
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A public college had the authority to remove a nursing student from its program for Facebook posts without violating the First Amendment, a federal appeals court has ruled. The decision
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What happens when cyberbullying laws and policies collide with a student’s First Amendment free-speech claims? A recent federal district court decision out of New Jersey recently struck the balance in
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