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Jarvis, Mel – CCBC Notebook, the Competency Based Curriculum, 1982
In the case of "Pico v. Island Trees Union Free School District," involving school library censorship by a Long Island (New York) board, the U.S. Supreme Court in 1982 failed to decide whether board discretion or First Amendment rights should prevail, and instead remanded the case to lower courts. The author of this document first…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Censorship, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education