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Asking students to step into the hallway, leaving their backpacks at their desks, while a police-trained dog sniffs their backpacks for illegal drugs has raised a few constitutional questions in one Missouri case.

A Fourth Amendment case heard in the Delaware Supreme Court has determined that police can't bring a student in for questioning just to scare another student into confessing a crime.

A W.Va. school district has agreed that forcing students to take classes where one sex is barred from participation, without their explicit permission, is a violation of federal law.

The Supreme Court remanded an affirmative action case to the lower court for reconsideration under a stricter legal standard. The decision may be the beginning of the decline of affirmative action.

Charles County (Md.) Public Schools retain 11th Amendment sovereign immunity on appeal to the 4th Circuit Court. A suit brought by bus drivers for unpaid overtime work will now be dismissed.

A history teacher in Batavia, Ill., was reprimanded for telling his students about their Fifth Amendment rights, but he may have been mistaken on a technicality.

A US appellate court has probably established a precedent in favor of large urban districts that decide to close schools that are under-enrolled.

Although duties of full-time subs mirror those of probationary teachers, the subs can't count their substitute teaching experience toward tenure as teachers under Illinois law.