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Sendor, Benjamin – American School Board Journal, 1987
Discusses two recent court cases highlighting the legal pitfalls facing mandatory drug testing programs for teachers and students. In both cases, the courts contended that blanket testing policies violated Fourth Amendment protection from unreasonable search and seizure. Testing of individual teachers and students (under reasonable suspicion) may…
Descriptors: Courts, Drug Abuse, Drug Use, Elementary Secondary Education
Ryder, Bernard F. – Executive Educator, 1982
THE FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TEXT OF THIS DOCUMENT: A parent who notices a gun in his child's room would not hesitate to ask questions and demand answers about its presence. As a school administrator, I believe it is my responsibility to ask questions and take action when I find an equally destructive weapon--drugs--in my schools. The zealous…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, High Schools, Illegal Drug Use, Legal Problems
Lufler, Henry S., Jr. – 1991
Cases arguing about the use of school facilities by religious groups continued to increase in number in 1990; however cases involving home instruction and student searches declined. In the school desegregation section, the financing of desegregation plans occupied the attention in most cases. Increasingly, desegregation cases focus less on…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Desegregation Litigation, Discipline, Drug Abuse
Lufler, Henry S., Jr. – 1990
Cases involving searches of public school pupils in order to obtain evidence of drug sales or use, and litigation challenging the punishments meted out to students found with drugs, continued to occupy the attention of courts in 1989. Also continuing a trend seen in previous years, religion-based challenges to state regulation of both home…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Desegregation Litigation, Discipline, Drug Abuse
Lufler, Henry S., Jr. – 1989
Court decisions in 1988 expanded the power of school boards to set policies regarding the operation of the public schools. Cases are discussed under the following sections: (1) public school assignment, tuition, transportation, home instruction, and compulsory attendance; (2) private and parochial schools; (3) substantive rights of students,…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Desegregation Litigation, Discipline, Drug Abuse
Lufler, Henry S., Jr. – 1988
The sharp increase in the number of cases that involve school antidrug policies continued in 1987. Courts continued to support school policies that contain an automatic suspension or expulsion penalty for school drug possession. First Amendment religious cases also continued to increase in number. A new grouping of cases under the heading…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Court Litigation, Desegregation Litigation, Discipline
Lufler, Henry S., Jr. – 1987
This chapter reviews court decisions in education during 1986 that addressed issues related to student rights and the jurisdiction of schools with respect to pupils. The first section of the review covers the issues of public school assignment, tuition, transportation, and compulsory attendance. This is followed by short discussions of cases…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Compliance (Legal), Constitutional Law, Corporal Punishment
