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Zirkel, Perry A. – Exceptional Children, 2012
This study analyzed the 65 hearing officer decisions in Illinois between 1982 and 2010 that were subject to a court appeal available in the Westlaw or Individuals With Disabilities Education Law Report (IDELR) databases. These 65 cases yielded 86 issue rulings. Based on refined measures of outcomes and deference, or standard of judicial review,…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Court Litigation, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation
Zirkel, Perry A. – Principal, 2002
Describes an Illinois case involving the demotion of an elementary school principal with 5 years of experience to a classroom teacher. The former principal sued the district claiming that her state due-process rights were violated. The state court disagreed, entering a summary judgment for the district; later affirmed on appeal. Reviews other…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Courts, Principals
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Williams, Charles F. – Social Education, 2005
Reactions to the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and debate over the president's replacement nomination, Judge John Roberts, Jr., of the D.C. Circuit, dominated this summer's Supreme Court recess. Subsequently, after Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist's death on September 3, 2005, President Bush nominated Roberts for the chief justice…
Descriptors: Federal Courts, Court Litigation, Judges, Opinions
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James, John T. – Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, 2004
This article outlines the significant legal decisions regarding collective bargaining in Catholic schools, identifies the governance structures employed in Catholic schools and the methods of translating these governance structures into documents required by civil law, and concludes with the citation of two recent court decisions that demonstrate…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Teaching (Occupation), Unions, Catholic Schools
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs.
The contents of this part of the hearings before the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs are organized in six sections. Section one comprises the testimony and/or prepared statements of 10 witnesses submitted on March 23, 1970 before the Select Committee at Modesto, California, including: Daniel Lowenstein and Philip Neumark,…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Court Litigation, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Advisory Panel on Integration of the Public Schools, Chicago, IL. – 1964
This report of an advisory panel to the Chicago Board of Education deals with desegregation of the public schools, and offers a plan "by which any educational, psychological, and emotional problems or inequities in the school system" can be removed. The introduction deals with historical and legal background and the problem of…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Black Education, Comparative Analysis, Court Litigation
Menacker, Julius – West's Education Law Quarterly, 1992
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1990 stresses procedural safeguards regarding special education identification, placement, or services. Reviewed a sample of Illinois due process appeal decisions and concluded that the system appears to be serving Illinois educators and parents reasonably well. (20 references) (MLF)
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Court Litigation, Disabilities, Due Process
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. – 1992
Section A of the Media and Law section of the proceedings contains the following nine papers: "RICO and the First Amendment: Racketeering Laws Threaten Free Expression" (Matthew D. Bunker and others); "Press Coverage of the Federal Appellate Courts: Technology and a Shared Notion of Newsworthiness" (Rebekah V. Bromley);…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Court Litigation, Federal Courts, Foreign Countries