#education-law

#education-law

We can all agree no state can be allowed to rip children from their parents' arms and transition them to a new gender against the parents' will. Among the anti-trans proposals Trump advocated for in his State of the Union address Tuesday night was a nationwide ban on schools acknowledging and supporting trans and gender diverse students' social transitions without notifying their parents.

The Zakarpattia region, known for its ski resorts and undulating landscapes, has in recent years become an unlikely focal point of a diplomatic dispute between Budapest and Kyiv. Home to more than 100,000 ethnic Hungarians, Zakarpattia has a complex history of shifting borders and empires, having passed through Austro-Hungarian, Czechoslovak and Soviet rule before becoming part of independent Ukraine. Located in the country's southwest, the region's administrative centre Uzhhorod has been largely unscathed from Russian attacks.

Boston federal judge F Dennis Saylor IV ordered a school district in Massachusetts to make "reasonable efforts" to ensure parents can prevent their children from learning about LGBTQ+ people. Lexington father and "devout Christian", Alan L, sued Joseph Estabrook Elementary School in October 2025 after learning its education materials included books which he said contradict his anti-LGBTQ+ views on marriage.

John Foster is a respected lawyer and public sector legal leader with more than thirty years of experience in government and education law. He grew up on military bases across the United States, where a childhood shaped by discipline, duty, and resilience set the tone for his career. His father was a decorated Marine Corps officer, and his mother was an English immigrant who survived wartime evacuation before building a long career as a paralegal.

A coalition of parents, advocates and a prominent education lawyer is suing New York state, accusing lawmakers of quietly gutting standards for religious schools and denying tens of thousands of Hasidic and Haredi children a basic education. On Sept. 18, Michael Rebell, lead counsel and professor emeritus of law and educational practice at Teachers College, Columbia University, joined by the firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP and the Youth Advocacy and Policy Lab at Harvard Law School, announced the class-action lawsuit in Kings County Supreme Court.

The message displayed throughout the school day denying the existence of gender identities of transgender and gender nonconforming students would have a serious negative impact on those students' ability to concentrate on their classroom work.