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...school authorities until the child has been removed from campus. One mother of a young boy who helped a schoolmate set off a fire alarm learned of her son's plight from a text message he sent her: "Mom, I'm in trouble - please come to school." A second text followed: "I'm probably going to jail." She found her son in leg shackles at the juvenile detention center. Similar stories prompted Florida legislators this spring to adopt changes to their law, but most states have shown zero tolerance for change, Hink says...
...head of the TEA, Commissioner Robert Scott, has added a second component to the policy change. If a student enrolled in college-bound courses is placed in a DAEP, Harris-Lawrence says, those lessons must be made available to him or her so that the student's graduation plan is not changed. In practical terms, that means an administrator might think twice about sending a student to DAEP if it means adding teaching resources to the alternative school...
...right to counsel as part of his Miranda rights, declined to answer any questions without an attorney present. The officer never pursued Shatzer further, but nearly three years later, a different detective questioned Shatzer, at which point he admitted abuse. Shatzer now argues this confession is inadmissible because the second police officer, who was unaware of Shatzer's original Miranda request, questioned him without an attorney present. (Read "Four Enduring Myths About Supreme Court Nominees...
National Rifle Association v. Chicago / McDonald v. Chicago At issue: Second Amendment rights to gun ownership...
...pair of cases challenge Chicago's 27-year-old ban on handgun sales within the city limits. Originally designed to curb violence in the city, the ban has long irked Second Amendment advocates, who take an expansive view of the amendment's wording that the "right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." But the Supreme Court had long held that the Second Amendment pertained only to federal laws, until a 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller struck down a ban on handguns in Washington, D.C. The ruling marked the first time...