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ERIC Number: EJ331336
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1986
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Teachers' First Amendment Rights Eroding.
Flygare, Thomas J.
Phi Delta Kappan, v67 n5 p396-97 Jan 1986
A recent Supreme Court decision on a First Amendment case involving a teacher in Texas illustrates how teachers' and other public employees' rights to freedom of speech face serious erosion. The problem is deciding whether grievances fall into the protected area of "public concern" or the unprotected area of a "purely private matter." (MD)
Descriptors: Confidentiality, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Government Employees, Grievance Procedures, Privacy, Teacher Evaluation, Teachers
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Legal/Legislative/Regulatory Materials
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Administrators; Policymakers; Practitioners
Language: English
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Identifiers: First Amendment; Supreme Court; Texas