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Zirkel, Perry A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2000
Discusses a 2000 federal trial court decision upholding a Kentucky district's termination of a tenured teacher who presented a curricular segment on industrial hemp as part of a "save-the-trees" unit. The decision underscores teachers' severely limited constitutional rights in the curricular context. (MLH)
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Curriculum, Due Process
