Mar 19 Local News Attorney Challenges Language Regulating Merit-Based Pay in High School Sports A Louisville attorney is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider whether language in the Kentucky High School Athletics Association’s bylaws violates the First Amendment. Currently, no schools can offer student athletes more than 25 percent of tuition in merit-based scholarships. The rule called Title 13 is meant to prevent schools from paying students to […] By Devin Katayama Mar 19 Local News Attorney Challenges Language Regulating Merit-Based Pay in High School Sports Devin Katayama
Nov 28 Local News Attorney Asks State Supreme Court to Deny JCPS Student Assignment Case Review An attorney representing several Jefferson County Public Schools parents has filed a response to the school district’s attempt to overturn a ruling against the student assignment plan. Teddy Gordon has been arguing against JCPS for over a decade. He even won a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2007, which called the district’s student assignment plan […] By Devin Katayama Nov 28 Local News Attorney Asks State Supreme Court to Deny JCPS Student Assignment Case Review Devin Katayama
Jul 19 Local News More Parents Join JCPS Suit Nine more parents have joined a lawsuit challenging the Jefferson County Public Schools' student assignment plan. It brings to ten the number of parents who contend the school district is in violation of a state law that allows them to enroll their children in public schools closest to their homes. By Rick Howlett Jul 19 Local News More Parents Join JCPS Suit Rick Howlett
Jun 16 Local News Another Suit Challenges JCPS Plan By Rick Howlett Louisville attorney Teddy Gordon has filed a new lawsuit challenging Jefferson County Public Schools’ new student assignment plan. Gordon filed the suit Wednesday in Jefferson Circuit Court on behalf of parent Scott Arnold, whose five year old son was unable to get into Cochrane Elementary School near his home for the upcoming […] By Rick Howlett Jun 16 Local News Another Suit Challenges JCPS Plan Rick Howlett
Aug 3 Local News Hearing Tomorrow in JCPS Student Assignment Case A hearing is set for tomorrow afternoon in federal court in Louisville regarding a challenge to Jefferson County Public Schools’ student assignment plan. Last week, attorney Teddy Gordon filed a request for an injunction on behalf of two plaintiffs whose children were seeking entrance to Stopher Elementary school as kindergarteners. Gordon wants the plan halted, […] By Stephanie Crosby Aug 3 Local News Hearing Tomorrow in JCPS Student Assignment Case Stephanie Crosby