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In Pennsylvania

• Know Your Rights: Handbook for Pennsylvania Public School Students | ACLU-PA, June 2017 Booklet in Q&A format discusses students' rights, when they can be exercised, when school officials can limit them, and offers practical tips for students.

• 2024 Back-to-School Guide for Pennsylvania Public School Students, Education Law Center, August 2023

• ACLU-PA's Guidance on Student Walkouts, ACLU of Pennsylvania, 2018

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In General

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• Defend Your Right to Learn: Join In The Fight Against Classroom Censorship

• Know Your Rights: Students’ Rights, ACLU
  Provides a broad overview of these rights: First Amendment, student dress, discipline, police, protests, immigration, disability, LGBTQIA+, and pregnancy

• LGBTQ Students: Letters for When You're Fighting Discrimination, ACLU, 2024

 

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Dress Codes

• ​​Dress Codes - Open Letter to Principals and Superintendents, ACLU, 2024

• 4 Things Public Schools Can Do and Can't Do When it Comes to Dress Codes, ACLU

• All Schools Should Look At This Dress Code That Finally Gets It Right, ScaryMommy, 2017

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Privacy

• Keeping Our Kids Safe from the EdTech Surveillance Industry, ACLU, 2023 

• Those “Free” Remote Learning Apps Have A High Cost: Your Student’s Privacy, ACLU,  2020

• Schools Are Watching Students' Social Media, Raising Questions about Free Speech, PBS NewsHour, 2017

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Speech and Protest

• Some Schools Need a Lesson on Students’ Free Speech Rights, ACLU, 2018​

• Can Schools Discipline Students for Protesting?, ACLU, 2018

• Student Walkout Over Guns Poses Balancing Act for Schools, Associated Press, 2018

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Discipline and Policing

• Defending Clients Who Have Been Searched and Interrogated at School: A Guide for Juvenile Defenders, National Juvenile Defender Center

• Lawsuit Says Diversion Program Meant to Keep Troubled Kids Out of the Criminal Justice System Violates Their Constitutional Rights, American Bar Association, 2019 

• ‘How Far Can They Go?’ Police Search of Hundreds of Students Stokes Lawsuit and Constitutional Questions, New York Times, 2017