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GRADES K-12 LEGAL ISSUES
Grades K-12 Legal Issues
California Public School Teacher Played Students Turkish Propaganda Video Likening Israel’s War on Hamas to the Holocaust: Lawsuit
Santa Clara Unified School District has ‘allowed an egregiously hostile environment to fester’ for Jewish students, suit says Alana...
3 days ago3 min read
How are Massachusetts schools failing Jewish students through bias? - opinion
As antisemitic lessons increase, who’s running K-12 education? By Deborah G. Schuss | Jerusalem Post | March 24, 2025 Photo:...
Mar 315 min read
Federal government investigates Lake Washington School District for allegedly allowing anti-semitism
Washington's second-largest district faces a federal investigation for allegedly allowing a hostile learning environment for Jewish...
Mar 313 min read
StandWithUs Title VI Complaint Against Lake Washington School District Prompts Investigation by Department of Education
(Seattle, WA — March 19, 2025) – The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has opened for investigation a federal...
Mar 192 min read
Brandeis Center/ADL/StandWithUs Expand Helpline on Antisemitism in K-12 Schools to Massachusetts and New York
(Boston, MA, September 30, 2024) --. The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), and...
Sep 30, 20245 min read
StandWithUs Urges Action in Washington State, Bellevue School District, for Ignoring Antisemitism in Violation of District Policy and State Law
In April 2024, StandWithUs contacted the Bellevue School District in Washington State about increasingly antisemitic incidents at their...
Sep 25, 20241 min read
Dallas district allegedly retaliated against Jewish student after Title VI probe
A teacher “specifically mentioned the complaint” when the co-complainant was in the room and “insinuated it had something to do with...
Jul 23, 20242 min read
US Jewish Groups Condemn Anti-Zionist Resolutions Considered by American Federation of Teachers
By Dion J. Pierre | Algemeiner | July 16, 2024 Photo courtesy of Shutterstock A coalition of US Jewish groups on Monday denounced the...
Jul 23, 20243 min read
Pro-Israel education group warns of ‘antisemitism and anti-Israel bias’ in teachers’ union proposals
By Rebekah Riess | CNN | Wednesday July 3, 2024 Several items being proposed at an upcoming education convention in Philadelphia are...
Jul 10, 20243 min read
StandWithUs Condemns Antisemitic and Anti-Israel New Business Items Proposed at NEA Representative Assembly
(Philadelphia, PA – June 24, 2024) – StandWithUs strongly condemns multiple antisemitic and anti-Israel New Business Items (NBIs) that...
Jun 24, 20243 min read
StandWithUs Statement on Congressional Hearing Regarding K-12 Antisemitism
StandWithUs applauds efforts by the United States House of Representative to highlight pervasive antisemitism in K-12 schools.
May 9, 20243 min read
StandWithUs Sends Letter to Bellevue School District Regarding Antisemitic and Hostile Environment
StandWithUs contacted the Bellevue School District regarding ongoing, pervasive and offensive harassment of Jewish students in the...
May 8, 20241 min read
Press Release: Rampant, Unaddressed Antisemitism at Dallas High School Prompts Federal Civil Rights Complaint
StandWithUs Files Title VI Complaint Against Dallas Independent School District; Jewish Students at Hillcrest High School Face Ongoing...
Apr 10, 20243 min read
Title VI Civil Rights Complaint Filed Against Dallas Independent School District
Jewish students at Hillcrest High School face ongoing Harassment, intimidation, marginalization and discrimination. Read the official...
Apr 10, 20241 min read
StandWithUs Seeks Administrative Action to Address Antisemitic "Lesson" at Washington Elementary School
(Seattle Washington – February 14, 2024) – The StandWithUs Center for Combating Antisemitism (CCA) sent a letter on January 17 to a...
Feb 14, 20244 min read
Letter to the Dept. of Education Urging Oversight to Protect Jewish Students
StandWithUs, partnering with the Zachor Legal Institute and the National Jewish Advocacy Center, wrote to the Department of Education,...
Jan 30, 20241 min read
StandWithUs Letter to Attorneys General January 2024
Dear Attorney General, We write to you from the StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department, a division of StandWithUs, an international,...
Jan 16, 20243 min read
StandWithUs Files Amicus Brief Countering Anti-Israel Bias and Antisemitism in the Clifton, NJ Board
(Clifton, NJ – July 25, 2022) – The StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department proudly announces its filing of an amicus brief on July 25,...
Jul 26, 20223 min read
The Edwin Black Show Season 3 Episode 1: Watkins Holocaust Outrage
January 20, 2022 Yael Lerman from StandWithUs speaks on the Edwin Black show Third-grade students at Watkins Elementary School were...
Jan 20, 20221 min read
StandWithUs Letter to SPS Interim Superintendent Jones Expressing Concern over BDS Resolution
June 16, 2021 Brent Jones, Ph.D. Interim Superintendent Seattle Public Schools Office of the Superintendent MS: 32-150; PO Box 34165...
Jun 16, 20216 min read
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