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Lines, Patricia M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1985
A review of court decisions about teacher testing programs shows that tests must be equitable and fair, must not be used to discriminate by race or sex, and that adequate notice to teachers is required. (MLF)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Due Process, Elementary Secondary Education, Justice
Zirkel, Perry A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1998
Discusses an unsuccessful lawsuit brought by Margaret Boring, an acclaimed high school drama teacher in Buncombe County, North Carolina. She was transferred to a middle school for allegedly violating the school's "controversial materials" policy after students performed an expurgated version of Lee Blessing's "Independence."…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Censorship, Court Litigation, Dramatics
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
