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Splitt, David A. – Executive Educator, 1984
Discusses cases involving a nontenured high school coach's firing, state-mandated competency testing, and civil rights of public employees. (KS)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Due Process, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Courts
Sistrunk, Walter E. – 1982
Statutory and case law since 1953 have created a firm basis for personnel policy in Mississippi public school districts. House Bill No. 11 (1953) prescribed methods for the selection and employment of professional staff and conditions for their suspension and dismissal, establishing rights of proper notice and due process. Standards for…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Compliance (Legal), Court Litigation, Due Process
Peer reviewedShaw, Frank W., II – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1985
Presents a discussion of the legal context of evaluation systems upon which merit pay programs are based. Following the discussion of the law, a model merit pay program is presented. (MLF)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Court Litigation, Due Process, Elementary Secondary Education
Flygare, Thomas J. – 1984
This paper argues that courts have tended to identify and enforce individual rights at the expense, in many instances, of the ability of school boards and legislatures to carry out what they perceive to be the will of the majority of voters in their jurisdictions. The trend emphasizing individual rights began in 1954 with the Supreme Court…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Civil Rights Legislation, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation
Beckham, Joseph C. – 1984
This is the seventh in a series of Educational Research Service (ERS) monographs designed to summarize judicial decisions on elementary and secondary education issues by state and federal courts. These cases, dating from June 30, 1983 to June 30, 1984, were selected on the basis of their relevance to contemporary problems in public schools, their…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Board of Education Policy, Collective Bargaining, Compliance (Legal)
