Self-Serve tier

Apply Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College, 600 US 181 (2023) to college and graduate admissions race-based decisions. Surfaces overruling of Grutter (539 US 306 2003), residual essay/individual experience carve-out, and Title VI / Equal Pr

Analyze religious charter schools and faith-based participation in public education funding under Espinoza (591 US 464 2020), Carson v. Makin (596 US 767 2022), Kennedy v. Bremerton (597 US 507 2022), and the state-actor question raised by Oklahoma St. Charter Sch. Bd. v. Drummon

Apply Mahanoy Area Sch. Dist. v. B.L., 594 US 180 (2021) to off-campus and online student speech. Surfaces school's diminished interest in regulating, the three Tinker-related categories Breyer expressly preserved, and First Amendment limits on remote-learning speech codes. Self-

Apply McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, 42 USC §11431 et seq., as reauthorized by ESSA, to school enrollment, transportation, and dispute-resolution rights of children experiencing homelessness. Surfaces school of origin / best interest test and immediate enrollment despite

Apply Pickering v. Bd. of Educ., 391 US 563 (1968), Connick v. Myers, 461 US 138 (1983), and Garcetti v. Ceballos, 547 US 410 (2006) to public-school teacher and administrator speech retaliation claims under §1983. Surfaces threshold "matter of public concern" and "official dutie

Apply Goss v. Lopez (419 US 565 1975) procedural due process for short school suspensions and Mathews v. Eldridge (424 US 319 1976) balancing for longer suspensions/expulsions. Surfaces the notice + opportunity-to-be-heard floor and IDEA manifestation-determination overlay. Self-

Apply New Jersey v. T.L.O. (469 US 325 1985) reasonableness standard, Vernonia Sch. Dist. v. Acton (515 US 646 1995) and Bd. of Educ. v. Earls (536 US 822 2002) suspicionless-drug-testing framework, and Safford v. Redding (557 US 364 2009) intrusiveness limits for K-12 school sea

Apply Monell v. Dep't of Soc. Servs., 436 US 658 (1978) and progeny to school-district municipal liability under 42 USC §1983. Surfaces policy/custom/failure-to-train + final-policymaker prongs. Distinguishes individual-capacity qualified immunity from official-capacity entity cl

Apply Tinker (393 US 503 1969), Bethel v. Fraser (478 US 675 1986), Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier (484 US 260 1988), and Morse v. Frederick (551 US 393 2007) to on-campus K-12 student speech. Surfaces substantial-disruption test, lewd-speech track, school-sponsored speech track, and pro

Compare Title IX 2024 Final Rule (89 Fed. Reg. 33474, Apr 29, 2024) versus 2020 Final Rule (85 Fed. Reg. 30026, May 19, 2020) on harassment definition, jurisdiction, hearing rights, cross-examination, and pregnancy. Surfaces injunction status by circuit. Self-contained — no exter

Apply Davis v. Monroe Cnty. Bd. of Educ., 526 US 629 (1999) peer-on-peer Title IX harassment standard. Surfaces actual knowledge + deliberate indifference + severe/pervasive/objectively offensive depriving educational access. Pairs with Gebser v. Lago Vista 524 US 274 (1998) for

Distinguish Title VI (race), Title IX (sex), Section 504 of Rehabilitation Act (disability + federal funding), and ADA Title II (public-entity disability) in K-12 / higher-ed civil rights claims. Surfaces overlap and election; pairs with Cummings damages limitation. Self-containe