The part of the Civil Rights Act of primary concern to public school administrators is Section 1983, which permits litigation against school personnel as representatives of public school districts, which are local governmental units according to the law. A review of court cases allows generalizations including the following. Section 1983 is a…

The speaker examines the issue of the legal liability of individual school board members as it has arisen as a result of such court cases as Wood v. Strickland and Goss v. Lopez. The discussion includes questions of infringement on students' and teachers' rights and cases of school officials acting as individuals rather than in an official…