Sotomayor and Education

This from the School Law Blog:

Education Week's Erik Robelen has this insightful analysis of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's record on education cases. Erik's discussion includes the following cases:

Gant v. Wallingford Board of Education, a 1999 decision about alleged racial discrimination in the transfer of an African-American student.

Frank G. v. Board of Education of Hyde Park, about whether students must first
have received public education to be eligible for private school tuition reimbursements under federal special education law.

Doninger v. Niehoff, about the First Amendment concerns surrounding a student's
Internet criticisms of her school principal. And N.G. ex. rel. S.C. v. Connecticut, about strip-searches of adolescent girls at a juvenile detention center.

A few other education cases from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit in which Judge Sotomayor participated or wrote the opinion:

Garcia v. Yonkers School District: In one of Judge Sotomayor's most recent education decisions, she was part of a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit that ruled in April that students who challenged their five-day suspensions for walking out of school to join a budget protest were not prevailing parties, even though a federal district judge had sympathized with them and suggested he would grant the orders and injunction they sought...

Port Washington Teachers' Association v. Board of Education of the Port Washington Union Free School DistrictIn this case, Judge Sotomayor was part of a panel that unanimously turned aside a challenge by the teachers' union and other parties to a school superintendent's policy memorandum informing district staff members that they should inform pregnant students' parents of the pregnancies...

Connecticut v. Hartford Board of EducationThis opinion, written by Sotomayor, shows the judge's tendency to write comprehensively, and drily, on the issues before
her...