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Michigan Judge Rules Utica School Violated Student Journalist's Free Speech Rights (10/12/2004)
DETROIT - A federal court judge ruled today that a Utica high school violated the First Amendment by censoring an article in the school newspaper written by the paper's student editor, Katherine Dean. Judge Arthur Tarnow ruled from the bench, ending the two-year old lawsuit.

ACLU Defends Navajo Advocate's Right to Criticize School District (08/19/2004)
ALBUQUERQUE--The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico announced today that it is defending a Navajo man who is being sued by the Central Consolidated School District for defamation over an op-ed he wrote criticizing the district's bilingual education policies.

ACLU Asks Virginia Supreme Court to Allow College Student to Vote in Local Elections (06/24/2004)
WILLIAMSBURG, VA--The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia asked the Virginia Supreme Court on Tuesday to allow Serene Alami, a student at the College of William and Mary, to register to vote in the city of Williamsburg, where she currently resides.

ACLU Challenges Detroit Police over Mass Searches of Public School Students (06/10/2004)
DETROIT -The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan today filed a federal lawsuit challenging a Detroit city policy that allows police and school officials to conduct mass searches of public school students.

ACLU Says Single-Sex Education Proposal Gets Failing Grade (03/03/2004)
WASHINGTON - Responding to the announcement of a new federal proposal encouraging single-sex public schooling, the American Civil Liberties Union today noted that, by the Secretary of Education's own admission, the research is incomplete on how such sex-separation impacts the quality of education.

After ACLU Intervention, University Drops Charges Against Arkansas Students Who Sought to Investigate Voter Fraud in Student Election (02/27/2004)
LITTLE ROCK-- The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas today announced the dismissal of disciplinary charges against two student government senators at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville who were charged with harassment after seeking to investigate voter fraud in a student election.

NYCLU Hails Victory For Students' Privacy Rights Following Lawsuit Over Forced Gynecological Exams (01/31/2004)
NEW YORK -- The New York Civil Liberties Union today announced that it has reached a settlement in its federal lawsuit against the U. S. Department of Education for illegally suspending a group of female students and requiring them to submit gynecological records as a condition for reinstatement.

ACLU Releases Expert's Report on Maryland's Inadequate School Facilities (01/13/2004)
BALTIMORE -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland today released a report documenting a 5 to 10 percent differential on achievement tests between students in adequate school buildings and those in older buildings. At a minimum, the cost of remedying the school facility issues that most immediately impact student achievement is estimated at $2.5 billion.

ACLU Asks Arizona School District to Reject Face-Recognition Checkpoints (12/17/2003)
PHOENIX -- The American Civil Liberties Union today asked state education officials and the Washington Elementary School District Board to reconsider a plan to install facial recognition-enabled video cameras at Royal Palm Middle School to identify sex offenders and missing children who visit the school.

South Carolina Students Were Terrorized by Police Raid With Guns and Drug Dogs, ACLU Lawsuit Charges (12/15/2003)
GOOSE CREEK, SC - Students as young as 14 were terrorized by police with guns and drug-sniffing dogs in an early-morning SWAT raid at Stratford High School that violated their rights, the American Civil Liberties Union charged in a lawsuit filed today on behalf of 20 families.

ACLU Youth Leaders Spearhead National Week of Student Action Against the PATRIOT Act (10/22/2003)
NEW YORK - Students across the country are joining in the American Civil Liberties Union's National Week of Student Action to Oppose the Patriot Act, October 26-November 2. At college campuses from New York to California, they will reach out to their peers with information, petitions, rallies, letter-writing campaigns and other educational initiatives that highlight the violations of basic individual rights and liberties embedded in the PATRIOT Act and its planned sequel, known as Patriot II.

ACLU of Maryland Urges State Officials to Consider Public School Students in Debate Over "Trigger" Clause in Education Funding Law (07/09/2003)
BALTIMORE, MD-A current debate among state officials over a clause in a law meant to activate or ""trigger"" new statewide education funding for public schools in the state, should not prevent that funding from moving forward, the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland said today.

NYCLU Sues New York School Officials for Forcing Teen-Age Girls to Undergo Intrusive Medical Exams (07/08/2003)
NEW YORK-- The New York Civil Liberties Union today filed a federal lawsuit against school officials for illegally suspending a group of girls for going to a ""hooky party"" and then refusing to let them return to school until they underwent intrusive and highly private medical examinations and turned over the test results.

ACLU Announces 2003 Youth Activism College Scholarship Recipients (03/28/2003)
NEW YORK--The American Civil Liberties Union today announced the names of 14 high school seniors selected to receive $4,000 college scholarships in recognition of their activist work in civil liberties.

ACLU of Northern CA Challenges Mass Round-Up of High School Students for "Gang Database" (01/30/2003)
SAN FRANCISCO - The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California filed a class-action lawsuit today challenging the unlawful round-up, detention and search of approximately 60 students whose names and photographs were then entered into a "gang database" maintained by the police.

Citing Free Speech Concerns, ACLU of MA Seeks FBI Records on Campus Surveillance Activities (12/12/2002)
SPRINGFIELD, MA -- Citing concerns about free speech on campus, the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts today said that it has filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking details on government surveillance of college professors and students nationwide.

ACLU of Arkansas and ACLU Voting Rights Project Sue to Restore Voting Rights of College Students (10/25/2002)
LITTLE ROCK--Acting on behalf of the governor's daughter, among others, the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas and the ACLU's National Voting Rights Project today filed a federal lawsuit to challenge a circuit judge's decision that college students and others already registered to vote in Clark County are unqualified to vote in the November 5 election.

NYCLU Urges School Officials to Protect Students From Unwanted Military Recruitment Solicitations (10/14/2002)
NEW YORK -The New York Civil Liberties Union today criticized the city's top education official for failing to protect public high school students and their families from unwanted military recruitment solicitations and for using scarce education dollars to subsidize the program under the "No Child Left Behind Act" of 2002.

ACLU of Maryland Applauds Education Funding Increase; Calls It Important Step Toward Educational Adequacy for Schoolchildren (05/06/2002)
BALTIMORE--In what is being hailed as a visionary school plan, Maryland Governor Parris Glendening will today sign the Bridge to Excellence in Public Schools Act into law-- a move that will increase statewide education funding by $1.1 billion over five years. An American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland lawsuit brought on behalf of underserved urban schoolchildren has served as the catalyst for this unprecedented appropriation that will ultimately benefit all of Maryland's schoolchildren. 

ACLU of Ohio Says It Will Investigate Middle School Where Pepper Spray Was Used on Children (04/24/2002)
CLEVELAND--Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio said today that they are investigating an incident at Euclid Middle School in which security guards reportedly sprayed three tables of students with a chemical pepper foam in an effort to break up a fight between two 12-year-old boys.