The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that charter schools can refuse to purchase religious curricular materials for their independent study programs.
In response to the rescission of federal agency policies limiting immigration enforcement on school grounds (see Lozano Smith’s 2025 Client News Brief Number 9), Governor Newsom signed a series of bills, including Assembly Bill (AB) 49, Senate Bill
In a victory for school choice advocates, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB), signed into law by President Donald Trump on July 4, 2025, introduces a new tax credit available to individual taxpayers who make “qualified contributions” to Scholarship Granting Organizations (SGOs).
On May 22, 2025, in a 4-4 split decision, the United States Supreme Court upheld an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision denying approval of a religion-based charter school on the grounds that approval of the charter would violate the Establishment Clause of the United States Constitution.
In Napa Valley Unified School District v. State Board of Education (Cal. Ct. App., Mar. 14, 2025, No. C099068), California’s Third District Court of Appeal examined the discretion afforded to charter school authorizers in approving or denying charter petitions.
In K.J. by and through Johnson v. Jackson (9th Cir. 2025) 127 F.4th 1239, the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found that the procedural due process rights outlined in Goss v. Lopez (1975) 419 U.S. 565 must be observed when imposing a suspension or extending a suspension based on new allegations or evidence.
On February 5, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) entitled “
On January 29, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) titled “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling,” which aims to address what is described as the influence of “radical, anti-American ideologies” and the resulting infringement on parental rights.
On January 20, 2025, Acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary, Benjamine Huffman, rescinded a longstanding policy that shielded places like schools, hospitals, and churches from immigration enforcement.