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EdChoice, 2024
Historically, private education has been an option mostly for families who could afford the cost or received financial help. Years of research have shown that many families would choose private schools and other educational resources for their children if they did not face insurmountable financial or geographical limitations. Private educational…
Descriptors: School Choice, Legal Problems, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation
Wrzesinski, Stuart E. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation examines the legal literacy of school administrators and the lack of mandated training regarding school law, specific to the First Amendment. With continual changes in education school administrators can function as the change agent for schools through the lens of self-efficacy. This dissertation is organized into three bodies of…
Descriptors: Freedom of Speech, Constitutional Law, Student Rights, Administrators
Joel Filas – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Illinois K-12 public school funding has long been characterized by large inter-district disparities in per-pupil expenditures. A primary reason for this characterization was the Illinois legislature's heavy reliance on local property tax within the various school funding formulas historically used to determine school revenues. The heavy reliance…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Education
Herbstrith, Julie C.; Kuperus, Sarah; Dingle, Kathleen; Roth, Zachary C. – Research in Education, 2020
Many Americans are familiar with the First Amendment, but its application to prayer and religious activities in public schools is often misunderstood. Religious beliefs are increasingly diverse in the United States. Therefore, it seems imperative that school personnel are aware of the law and sensitive to an array of religious practices. We…
Descriptors: Religion, State Church Separation, Constitutional Law, Knowledge Level
Green, Preston C., III – Peabody Journal of Education, 2016
This article provides an overview of non-religion-based state constitutional challenges to educational voucher and tax credit/scholarship programs. The first section discusses litigation examining whether education voucher programs violate constitutional provisions requiring the legislature to provide an efficient system of public schools. The…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, Tax Credits, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation
Boden, Jennifer A. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This paper explores treatment effects in three different contexts: an extended school year pilot program in an urban school district, a library summer reading program serving twenty-one urban school districts, and states passing the Equal Rights Amendment during the 1970s and 1980s. Estimates generated using two years of intervention data along…
Descriptors: Extended School Year, Urban Schools, School Districts, Library Services
Zirkel, Perry A. – Communique, 2015
This fifth article in the series reviewing recent court decisions concerning appropriate school psychology practice from both professional and legal perspectives, asks readers to consider the summary of the Illinois case presented, and the questions and answers that follow. The primary issue is whether the school district's adverse employment…
Descriptors: School Psychology, Legal Responsibility, School Psychologists, School Districts
Reynolds, Laurie – Journal of Education Finance, 2008
The Illinois Supreme Court has permitted the General Assembly to create a system of public school funding that is widely disparate and disadvantageous to students in school districts with low-property wealth. In this Article, I argue that the court has not adequately considered the nexus between the Uniformity of Taxation provision and the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Funds, Funding Formulas, Taxes
Kirby, Elizabeth; Kallio, Brenda – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2007
The Internet has had a profound effect on education and social interaction patterns. Educators struggle to stay abreast of technological advances and navigate the maze of positive and negative aspects of students using the Internet. A new use for the Internet is the relatively recent phenomenon called blogging. Blogging is a widely used means of…
Descriptors: Student Journals, Web Sites, Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction
Franklin, David L.; And Others – 1990
The results of new and/or continued litigation challenging the constitutionality of state school financial systems since the publication of the first volume of this study, which examined the history of such litigation from 1912-1971, are presented in this second volume. Recent cases illustrate two trends: the increase in the number and expediency…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance

Ward, James Gordon – Journal of Education Finance, 1997
In October 1996, the Illinois Supreme Court affirmed lower court decisions and dismissed a lawsuit claiming that the state's public school funding system violated the Illinois constitution. This decision ended a six-year battle to reform the state's school funding system. The courts found no constitutional issues in the case because education has…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Educational Equity (Finance), Elementary Secondary Education
Hickrod, George Alan Karnes Wallis; Pruyne, Gwen, Ed. – 1993
This monograph contains five presentations delivered during the course of an attempt made in November 1992 to amend the state constitution of Illinois in such a way as to make education a fundamental constitutional right. The effort failed to garner the 60 percent of the vote required to pass the amendment. These presentations made a strong…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Educational Equity (Finance), Elementary Secondary Education
Beckner, Gary, Ed. – Association of American Educators, 2007
"Education Matters" is the monthly newsletter of the Association of American Educators (AAE), an organization dedicated to advancing the American teaching profession through personal growth, professional development, teacher advocacy and protection. This issue of the newsletter includes: (1) Supreme Court Hears Union Coercion Case; What…
Descriptors: Unions, Court Litigation, Fees, Constitutional Law
Kopecky, Frank J., Ed.; Wilkin, Rebecca S., Ed. – 1983
Designed as supplementary reading in American government or social studies courses, this compilation of articles is intended to help students gain a better understanding of the judiciary's role in the Illinois legal system. The first of three sections contains articles about judges and the court system. The second section examines the criminal…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Court Judges, Courts
Franklin, David L.; And Others – 1987
This is volume I of a two-volume study of the constitutionality of the K-12 funding system in Illinois. In this volume, seven steps are presented in the issues and outcomes of the major judicial challenges to systems of state aid to public schools. The first chapter looks at the history of state aid litigation up to the time California became the…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education
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