Table of Contents:
  • School Law in Changing Times. McGhehey, M. A., Ed. Academic Freedom Arbitration Athletics Bilingual Education Black Dialects Board of Education Policy Censorship Collective Bargaining Compulsory Education Copyrights Court Litigation Creationism Disabilities Discipline Policy Due Process Educational Legislation Elementary Secondary Education Evolution Federal Regulation Grades (Scholastic) Higher Education Legal Education Personnel Selection Reduction in Force Salary Wage Differentials School Desegregation School Law Sex Discrimination State Church Separation Student Rights Tax Credits Teacher Dismissal Tuition This twenty-one chapter book deals with important, timely topics in school law. Topics include home instruction in place of public school attendance; judicial review of labor arbitration awards; procedures for nonrenewal of nontenured teachers that avoid constitutional problems; discipline by grade reduction and grade denial based on attendance; emerging and reemerging issues in church-state relations; and evolution and creationism. Also covered are school board censorship of library books and curriculum materials; the comparable worth concept for narrowing the earnings gap between men and women; resegregation and black English; judicial, legislative, and administrative trends concerning bilingual education; and law-related education. The book looks at the legal aspects of reduction in force; the debate over which areas are regulated by Title IX, especially the questions of athletics and employment; collective negotiation and the First Amendment; cases pending before the Supreme Court; and copyright laws affecting education. Final chapters deal with developments in fiscal equalization of state school support programs; an update of the burden of proof issue in applying the First and Fourteenth Amendments; discipline under the Education for All Handicapped Act; and the case against tuition tax credits. (Author/JM)