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Peer reviewedGoldberg, Steven S. – West's Education Law Reporter, 1988
Despite the United States Supreme Court's decision to let stand a judgment that the New Jersey law mandating a daily minute of silence in schools violated the first amendment, the Court, when presented with a statute resulting from a nonreligious purpose, may find a moment of silence permissible. (MLF)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Courts, Public Schools
Dowling-Sendor, Benjamin – American School Board Journal, 2003
Analyzes federal case involving suspension of New Jersey high school student for wearing a T-shirt listing top 10 reasons for being a "redneck" in violation of district's racial harassment policy. Court upheld the policy with a minor exception, but ruled its application to the student's "redneck" T-shirt violated his First…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Courts
Download full textStefkovich, Jacqueline A. – 1992
The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees "the right of people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures" by governmental officials. In a 1985 Supreme Court decision, "New Jersey v. TLO," students' privacy rights in public schools are afforded a lower…
Descriptors: Federal Courts, High Schools, Public Schools, School Law
Torrence, William D. – Personnel Journal, 1975
The article discusses District and Appeals Court rulings on competitive status seniority involving a New Jersey electric power company, several local unions of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, and several other agencies, among them the EEOC. (BP)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Equal Protection, Federal Courts
Goertz, Margaret E. – 2001
In 1998, the New Jersey Supreme Court directed schools in 30 poor urban districts to adopt a comprehensive school reform program by the 2000-2001 academic year. Part of this program involved delegating resource-allocation decisions to the school level, thereby increasing schools' effectiveness and productivity by bringing the perspectives of…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Courts
Hunter, Richard C.; Brown, Frank – School Business Affairs, 1999
School desegregation court cases provided the impetus to early experimental efforts at government takeover of public schools. Most recently, states have taken over school districts for failure to demonstrate adequate academic progress (educational bankruptcy). North Carolina's ABC program is profiled. Legal, financial, and organizational…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Accountability, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Courts
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
