This publication is the complete transcript of a weekly radio program devoted to contemporary issues in American Education. This particular program focuses on the topic of the courts and their relationship to the public schools. Separate segments of the program discuss 1) a recent suit by a high school graduate who can't read and cases involving the use of local property taxes to finance schools, 2) the role of the courts in school desegregation, 3) the First Amendment as the courts have applied it to censorship of student publications, 4) student rights and the requirements governing due process in disciplinary cases, and 5) current trends in Supreme Court decisions involving schools and students. (JG)