The Courts

State Judge Sides with 2 Teacher Groups
Over Commissioner’s “Partnership” Rules
A state district judge in Austin issued a final summary judgment siding with two teacher groups over an issue arising from 2017’s SB1882 that allows ISDs to enter into “partnerships” with charters or other approved nonprofit entities to take over the management of a struggling campus to avoid sanctions by the TEA. No. D-1-GN-18-005044 by Travis County District Judge Jan Soifer. Issued June. 10.
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U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals
Mother Couldn’t Show Bias was Behind
Decision to Move Students to a Lower Grade
Dismissed: A federal lawsuit challenging an ISD’s decision to transfer two students from third grade to second grade after they had immigrated to the U.S. from their native Egypt in the middle of a school year. Omayma Eltalawy, et. al., v. Lubbock ISD, et al, No. 19-10832. Issued June 8. Ordered “not published.”
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