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Set sane standards for online speech | Philadelphia Inquirer | 08/14/2011

Set sane standards for online speech | Philadelphia Inquirer | 08/14/2011

Set sane standards for online speech

Kathleen Conn

is an associate professor in the doctorate in education program at Neumann University and the author of more than a dozen articles on cyberbullying

On June 13, the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit filed two decisions concerning students' out-of-school speech that pose grave consequences for K-12 public schools and public school administrators.

In the first ruling, the majority affirmed an earlier decision that the Hermitage School District in Western Pennsylvania lacked the authority to