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Direct linkLeCompte, Margaret D. – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2014
This article describes how different constituencies in a major research university tried to initiate change despite disagreements over common goals, norms and principles. The context was a culture war. The university administration wanted to impose a corporatising and privatising philosophy which it felt was crucial to preserving the university's…
Descriptors: Research Universities, College Faculty, College Administration, Governance
Peer reviewedSchneider-Vogel, Merri – Journal of Law and Education, 1986
Surveys court decisions and constitutional challenges by homosexual teachers faced with job terminations. Provides nine guidelines for use by school officials. The primary concern of boards assessing a teacher's fitness should be the educational competence of the teacher and the possibility of actual harm to students resulting from the teacher's…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Civil Rights, Court Litigation, Due Process
Gregory, Gwendolyn H. – 1987
Supreme Court decisions made during the previous and present terms as well as some that will be rendered next term are discussed. Among the cases, the following are of particular relevance to school board members. In "Memphis Community Schools v. Stachura" the Court declared that damages based on the "value" of constitutional…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation
Camp, William E., Ed.; And Others – 1993
The principal is faced with myriad legal issues on a daily basis, making it imperative that he or she keep abreast with developing legal issues. The first of four sections, "Students and the Law," surveys federal statutes and landmark Supreme Court decisions pertaining to the rights of students. It addresses legal issues regarding search and…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Accessibility (for Disabled), Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Download full textSorenson, Gail Paulus – 1987
This first chapter of "The Yearbook of School Law, 1986" summarizes and analyzes over 250 state and federal court decisions handed down in 1985 affecting the legal rights of employees of public schools and state education agencies. Among the topics examined are discrimination on the basis of race, religion, sex, national origin, age, and handicap;…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Contracts, Court Litigation
Sorenson, Gail Paulus – 1987
This chapter analyzes more than 200 cases reported in 1986 involving public-sector employees in elementary and secondary education. Also included, where appropriate, are relevant 1986 Supreme Court cases from outside the field of education, as well as leading cases from prior years. Legal issues covered by the review include the following: (1)…
Descriptors: Age Discrimination, Civil Rights, Collective Bargaining, Compliance (Legal)
