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ERIC Number: EJ376259
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1988
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Eckmann v. Board of Education of Hawthorn School District: Bad Management Makes Bad Law.
Sacken, Donal M.
Journal of Law and Education, v17 n2 p281-98 Spr 1988
A school board's dismissal of a teacher who was an unwed mother resulted in the jury granting a large award. The judge grounded the legal justification for the jury's decision in the teacher's constitutionally protected decision to bear a child, irrespective of marriage. Criticizes court's constitutional intrepretation. (MLF)
Descriptors: Administration, Board of Education Policy, Court Litigation, Decision Making, Due Process, Elementary Secondary Education, Illegitimate Births, Privacy, Public Schools, Teacher Dismissal, Unwed Mothers
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Legal/Legislative/Regulatory Materials
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Language: English
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