ERIC Number: ED278096
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1986
Pages: 136
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: ISBN-0-88364-115-1
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School Law in Review--1986. Proceedings of the NSBA Council of School Attorneys Annual School Law Seminar (Las Vegas, Nevada, April 4-5, 1986). Volume 2.
Gittins, Naomi E., Ed.; And Others
This volume of seminar presentations covers a broad range of legal issues affecting public schools. The first chapter summarizes employee free speech developments since "Connick v. Myers" (1983), a United States Supreme Court decision upholding a district attorney's right to dismiss a transferred assistant for circulating a controversial questionnaire to coworkers. "Connick" and "Pickering" (an earlier case balancing employee and employer interests) are analyzed for their effects on recent court actions involving employee criticism of employer policy, symbolic speech, political affiliations, sexual preference, and other issues. The second chapter discusses recent decisions concerning religion, such as school prayer, parochial school aid, equal access, home schooling, compulsory attendance, creationism, and religious objections to curriculum. The third chapter examines the application of the Fair Labor Standards Act to school boards, while the fourth chapter treats the legal aspects of child abuse, especially school personnel's legal obligation to detect and report it. The fifth chapter examines a 1985 Supreme Court decision allowing school officials to search a student if "reasonable suspicion" exists. The sixth chapter summarizes recent handicapped education law, while the final chapter updates Supreme Court actions affecting schools. Numerous case citations are given in footnotes and a subject index is provided. (MLH)
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Courts, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Freedom of Speech, Legal Problems, Legal Responsibility, Parochial Schools, Public Schools, Religion, School Law, Search and Seizure, Student Rights, Teacher Rights, Torts
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Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Collected Works - Proceedings
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Practitioners; Policymakers
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: National School Boards Association, Alexandria, VA. Council of School Attorneys.
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