What are the limits on free speech rights in PA schools?

First Amendment rights at center of clash between Pa. schools and students over ICE walkouts

Pennsylvania students have a First Amendment right to protest ICE, but schools can discipline walkouts as they would any unexcused absence and not more harshly due to the political message.

What are the limits on free speech rights in PA schools?

READING — Do students have the right to leave school as a protest tactic? Nationwide, including in Pennsylvania, communities are navigating this question as students organize walkouts against immigration enforcement actions. The U.S. Supreme Court established in Tinker v. Des Moines in 1969 that neither students nor teachers “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” Schools have latitude to re…