The 19th
Annual Educational Law and Social Justice Forum will feature a speaker who
will talk about “Speech and Protest in Public Schools.” The lecture will cover a wide range of
topics. The event is cosponsored by both the Journal of Educational
Controversy and the Center of Education, Equity and Diversity.
Title of Lecture: Speech and Protest in Public
Schools
Speaker: Vanessa Hernandez, Youth Policy
Director of the ACLU of Washington Speaker will discuss the law around student and teacher speech and protest in K-12 schools. In particular, the talk will focus on emerging issues around student protest, student clubs, the relationship between First Amendment and antidiscrimination protections, teachers’ use of social media and teacher and student engagement in political activity outside of school hours.
The event will take place at:
Western
Washington University
Center
for Education, Equity and Diversity
Miller
Hall 005
Thursday,
May 31, 2018
4pm
Vanessa
Hernandez formerly managed the ACLU-WA’s Second Chances Project, serving the legal needs
of people reentering society from prisons and jails. She is a graduate of the University of
Washington School of Law, where she was a Gates Public Service Law
Scholar. Prior to law school, Vanessa
taught middle school history and drama, and is the parent to two children in
Seattle Public Schools.
“My
job is to fight to keep young people in schools and out of prisons and jails. I
work with policy makers and community members to replace punishment-based
approaches with positive, preventative, and restorative approaches that can
eliminate pipelines to mass incarceration.”
The Journal of Educational Controversy has published several articles in this area. For example, see "Visions of Public Education in Morse v. Frederick" at: https://cedar.wwu.edu/jec/vol3/iss1/21/
See also our special issue on the "School to Prison Pipeline" and our Video Interviews with Authors.
See also our special issue on the "School to Prison Pipeline" and our Video Interviews with Authors.
This
event is free and open to the public.
