Supreme Court Backs Official Who Censored School Newspaper, Skirts Issue at Colleges.

Fields, Cheryl M.

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Publication Date: 1988

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Supreme Court Backs Official Who Censored School Newspaper, Skirts Issue at Colleges.

Fields, Cheryl M.

Chronicle of Higher Education, v34 n19 pA1,22 Jan 20 1988

High school journalists do not have the same broad First Amendment protection of free speech that adults do, the Supreme Court said in upholding a Missouri high school principal's right to delete articles on divorce and teenage pregnancy from a school-sponsored newspaper. (MLW)

Descriptors: Censorship, Colleges, Court Litigation, Freedom of Speech, High Schools, Higher Education, Legal Responsibility, Newspapers, School Publications

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Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Hazelwood School District v Kuhlmeier; Tinker v Des Moines Independent School District

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