Tennessee Teachers’ Challenge Dismissed Over ‘Concepts’ Ban (1)

The Tennessee Education Association and several teachers can’t pursue a suit alleging unconstitutional vagueness concerning a state law that prevents them from teaching about specified concepts related to race, sex, and religion, and allows parents to enforce it, a federal court ruled.

The plaintiffs lack standing to pursue the suit because they didn’t sufficiently establish a history of past enforcement, Judge Aleta A. Trauger said Thursday for the US District Court for the Middles District of Tennessee. The state has had little opportunity to interpret the four-year-old statute, and “it is undisputed that no Tennessee teacher has yet been reported” ...