Book Overview

This book serves educators from all types of schools in either pre-service or professional development and is designed as a text for master’s and licensure (post-master’s) level. It covers all the relevant issues in school law:

• The legal system
• The federal and state role in education
• Church-state relationships
• Attendance law
• The instructional program
• Student rights
• Teacher contracts
• Rights and freedoms
• Teacher negligence
• Law for handicapped students
• Desegregation

The author groups case summaries, which include a brief, ramifications, and topics of interest to educators, together at the end of each chapter to facilitate research efforts. The book is a concise presentation of the constitutional, statutory, and case law knowledge that is needed for the effective day-to-day operation of schools and school systems. Contemporary issues having a large impact on school law, such as vouchers, the evolution vs. creation controversy, and home-schooling are included.