Their Des Moines high school enacted a policy in response that any student wearing an armband to school would be suspended. Several of the students were sent home, and their parents helped them to ...
A silent protest led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling that defined students’ free speech rights. The court’s 1969 landmark decision in Tinker v. Des Moines affirmed that “students do not leave their ...
A federal district court in Massachusetts and the circuit court applied a "novel legal standard and analysis" to a case known as Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District ...
Mahanoy Area Sch. Dist. v. B. L. by and through Levy, 141 S. Ct. 2038 (2021). The United States Supreme Court holds that while schools can sometimes regulate student speech that takes place off ...
Student journalists are tackling major issues and shaping local news, but they also face censorship, backlash and growing threats to press freedom ...
The stops were part of the Tinker Tour, a nationwide effort to increase youth civic engagement. Students from across the metro area gathered in Des Moines to learn about the landmark 1969 U.S ...
Professor Adam Benforado discusses Tinker v. Des Moines (1969) — a high-water mark for student speech — and how student speech rights have been eroded since the decision.