From Hazelwood’s backyard: An adviser’s plea to tell student journalists, “We trust you.”
In the backyard of the Hazelwood Supreme Court decision, I am organizing efforts for year seven of trying to get……
Author: Mitch Eden
Bill to expand student journalists’ rights moving in Missouri Legislature
By MITCH EDEN / Talk is cheap. Free speech isn’t. And that is what Missouri lawmakers must decide as they contemplate the Cronkite New Voices Act currently making its way through the state government. If passed, the bill, sponsored by Elijah Haahr, R-Springfield, would protect student journalists and advisers from censorship unless content is libelous, illegal or an invasion of privacy. The act would override a decision in 1988 by the U.S. Supreme Court in Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier, which ruled that St. Louis high school students’ freedom of speech rights were not violated when the school’s principal prevented articles about teenage pregnancy and parental divorce from being published in the school newspaper.
Free speech in Missouri may die Friday without as much as a peep
By MITCH EDEN / We learned Monday the New Voices Cronkite Act (HB2058) is not being put up for vote by Sen. David Pearce. If this bill is not heard by Friday, it will die.