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Zirkel, Perry A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2001
Describes facts and law leading to Third Circuit Court of Appeals decision to remand for trial a middle-school teacher's claim that suburban Philadelphia school district retaliated against her for advocating the raising of multicultural awareness, thus violating her First Amendment rights of free speech. Discusses implications for teachers and…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Federal Courts, Middle Schools
Zirkel, Perry A. – Principal, 2001
Discusses Eighth Circuit Court's upholding of an Oklahoma nontenured second-grade teacher's claim of religious discrimination and violation of First Amendment right of expression when school board declined to renew her contract on recommendation of a principal concerned with parent objections to New Age thinking in a letter sent home attached to a…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Courts, Freedom of Speech
Zirkel, Perry A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2002
Discusses a federal district court decision ordering a trial to determine if the New York City Public Schools created a "hostile work environment" in violation of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act by not protecting a Sri Lankan-born teacher from repeated ridicule and harassment by students. (Contains 10 references.) (PKP)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Discipline, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Courts
