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Orleans, Jeffrey H. – Journal of Law and Education, 1981
Representative, delegated school governance by elected officials intrinsically vests curricular control in those officials. Because their offices are created so that the schools may be governed, they have authority to govern the schools--even especially--in the delicate and critical areas of deciding how and what the schools shall teach.…
Descriptors: Censorship, Court Litigation, Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education