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Legal Literacy and K-12 Public School Teachers
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Summers, Kelly H.; Kiracofe, Christine Rienstra; James, Constantine – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2020
Courts have long held that public school teachers are "state actors" when they carry out the duties of their job. Despite this, very few teacher preparation programs include an education law class. In order to understand teachers' legal literacy, a survey was given to 300 public school teachers in Indiana. The survey assessed knowledge…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Knowledge Level, Multiple Literacies
Differentiated Jurisprudence? Examining Students' Fourth Amendment Court Decisions by Region of Country
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Torres, Mario S., Jr. – Journal of School Leadership, 2012
This study examined federal and state court decisions related to student Fourth Amendment rights following the "New Jersey v. T.L.O." ruling in 1985. There has been minimal research in judicial treatment of students' Fourth Amendment rights across regions of the country and less to what extent regional rulings implicitly or explicitly…
Descriptors: Cues, Court Litigation, State Courts, Federal Courts
Investigating Fourth Amendment Judicial Outcomes across Contrasting Minority School Settings: Subjectivity in Disciplinary Decision Making in Diverse Settings?
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Torres, Mario S., Jr.; Callahan, Jamie L. – Education and Urban Society, 2008
This study explores the court system's treatment of students' Fourth Amendment rights in cases emerging from contrasting minority school settings and whether discrepancies exist in case outcomes between these extremes. From virtually every search and seizure case that occurred between the 1985 U.S. Supreme Court case in "New Jersey v.…
Descriptors: Courts, Search and Seizure, Court Litigation, Psychological Patterns
The Three Faces of Power: The U.S. Supreme Court's Legitimization of School Authority's Parental, Police, and Pedagogic Roles.
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Ehrensal, Patricia A. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2003
Examines legal and ethical ramifications of three roles of school authorities (agents-of-state, custodial, tutelary) legitimated in two Supreme Court decisions: "New Jersey v. T.L.0." (search and seizure) and "Vernonia v. Action" (drug use testing). (Contains 34 references.)(PKP)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Court Litigation, Drug Use Testing, Elementary Secondary Education
The Fourth Amendment and the Public Schools: Reasonable Suspicion in the 1990s.
McKinney, Joseph R. – West's Education Law Quarterly, 1994
Examines state and federal court decisions from 1985 to 1993 involving students' claims that their constitutional rights were violated by school officials who conducted searches without reasonable suspicion. Discusses what constitutes reasonable suspicion, information provided by student informants, and outcomes of the cases. (MLF)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Privacy, Public Schools
The Fourth Amendment: Dormitory Room Searches in Public Universities.
Smith, Joseph M.; Strope, John L., Jr. – West's Education Law Quarterly, 1995
Examines 15 cases dealing with dormitory searches covering a 31-year period to determine how the Fourth Amendment applies to dormitory searches. The prevailing consensus is that if a university says and thinks it has the right to conduct a search of a room for health, safety, and maintenance reasons, then, in most circumstances, it has this right.…
Descriptors: College Housing, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Dormitories
The Balance between Student Drug Testing and Fourth Amendment Rights in Response to Board of Education v. Earls.
Edmonson, Stacey L. – 2002
This report--part of a collection of 54 papers from the 48th annual conference of the Education Law Association held in November 2002-- discusses student drug testing in Texas public schools. It contains the results of a 2001 study of student drug-testing policies in all 1,056 Texas public-school districts. In response to the Supreme Court's June…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Court Litigation, Discipline Policy, Drug Use Testing