• More commentators weigh in on the truly horrible new federal campus speech and discipline code [Harvey Silverglate /Juliana DeVries, Minding the Campus; Wendy Kaminer, The Atlantic; Will Creeley, HuffPo; Scott Greenfield; Reason TV; my two cents] More: Greg Lukianoff, WSJ.
• Feds: states must impose extensive disability-rights regime — including obligations to accept students with difficult accommodation needs — on private/religious schools participating in voucher programs [Bagenstos, Disability Law; Ramesh Ponnuru (noting that loading new regulatory burdens onto private and religious schools may not be displeasing to school choice opponents in the administration)] NYC’s famous selective/performance schools obliged to take special ed kids who can’t meet standard entrance or audition requirements [Inside Schools]
• Volunteer-led school band survives shutdown attempt by Oregon teachers’ union [Katherine Mangu-Ward]
• AFT: donate to groups that oppose our aims, and we’ll see that you pay [Jason Bedrick, Cato]
• Chicago: “Teachers union plans to file civil rights suits to stop school closings” [Chicago Tribune]
• Newly passed Minnesota “anti-bullying” law will expand state control over local schools [Pioneer Press] Court proceedings over alleged taunting and insults proliferate under New Jersey’s law [Star-Ledger via Reason]
• “Graduates, your ambition is the problem” [Roger Pilon on the president’s Ohio State commencement address]

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