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Lawsuit: Condition in SC education budget violates First Amendment, more

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SOUTH CAROLINA (WSPA) - The South Carolina Superintendent of Education and multiple school districts are being sued. The lawsuit was filed by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, claiming a proviso, or condition in the state budget, violates multiple amendments in the U.S. Constitution. According to the lawsuit, the condition violates the First Amendment, protecting free speech, and the Fourteenth Amendment, which guarantees citizenship to all people b…

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scdailygazette.com

SC law causes bans on lessons, books about Black history, lawsuit claims • SC Daily Gazette

(File/Getty Images)COLUMBIA — The South Carolina Department of Education is discriminating against Black people’s viewpoints by enforcing a law that bars schools from teaching that any race is inherently superior or automatically racist, claims a federal lawsuit filed Monday. The lawsuit, filed in Columbia on behalf of the state NAACP, teachers, students and librarians, claims the department and individual schools have removed curriculum and boo…

25 days ago

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WSPA

Lawsuit: Condition in SC education budget violates First Amendment, more

25 days ago·Savannah, United States

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WACH

Lawsuit claims SC race and gender education law suppresses free speech

A South Carolina law that restricts how race and gender are taught in public schools is being challenged in a lawsuit filed by the Legal Defense Fund.

26 days ago

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ABC Columbia

Lawsuit against S.C. Dept. of Education aims to end censorship of Black history - ABC Columbia

COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) — A federal civil rights lawsuit filed on Monday claims the SC Department of Education is in violation of the U.S. Constitution for censoring racially inclusive information within public schools. The Legal Defense Fund says it’s challenging a SC state budget proviso which prohibits school districts from using funding from the SC Department of Education for what it calls “partisan instruction” — which includes materials about …

24 days ago·Columbia, United States

SC law causes bans on lessons, books about Black history, lawsuit claims

What does the law say? Since 2021, the state budget has included this clause: For the current fiscal year, of the funds allocated by the Department of Education to school districts, no monies shall be used by any school district…

25 days ago

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