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Shoop, Robert J.; Dunklee, Dennis R. – 1992
The relationship between the principal and the law has never been easy to define. This book provides basic information on the current status of law, risk, and site-based management as they relate to the legal rights and responsibilities of principals. Twenty-one chapters are included in five sections. The first section discusses the school and the…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Administrator Responsibility, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education
Rapp, James A. – 1985
From a legal perspective, teacher evaluations can be a school's most valuable tool when administrators need to pursue or defend personnel actions. The first step in a practical evaluation process is to determine the evaluation's purpose, and the second is to determine what is to be evaluated. Evaluations should focus on factors that actually…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Check Lists, Constitutional Law, Courts
Galante, Susan – 1983
Tenured teaching staff member in New Jersey cannot be dismissed from their positions unless a board of education establishes just cause in a hearing before the Commissioner of Education. This pamphlet, designed to assist boards in filing dismissal proceedings for unsatisfactory tenured teachers, provides a comprehensive review of all recent tenure…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Court Litigation, Due Process, Elementary Secondary Education
Splitt, David A. – Executive Educator, 1987
Courts generally rule against drug testing of public employees. A urine sample represents "unreasonable search" under the Fourth Amendment. Testing unreliability was illustrated in "Jones v. McKenzie." Factual, "reasonable suspicion" must exist for judicial approval. Tests do not resolve employee drug abuse;…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Drug Use, Elementary Secondary Education, Employer Employee Relationship
Splitt, David A. – Executive Educator, 1984
Discusses cases involving a nontenured high school coach's firing, state-mandated competency testing, and civil rights of public employees. (KS)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Due Process, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Courts

Ruben, Alan Miles – Journal of Law and Education, 2001
The author discusses what he considers to be the 10 leading cases on education labor relations decided in state and federal courts during the 1990s. Concludes with a prediction that efforts to implement merit-pay schemes tied to student performance will lead to employment conflict. (PKP)
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education

Claxton, William P. – Journal of Law and Education, 1986
Defines and gives examples of remediation as a process prior to dismissal proceedings, in which a teacher is evaluated by administrators, who identify deficiencies and provide the teacher an opportunity to correct them. Identifies what constitutes remediable conduct, how requirements for remediation are imposed, and how courts review dismissal…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Due Process, Elementary Secondary Education, Probationary Period
Peach, Larry; Reddick, Thomas L. – Tennessee Education, 1984
Discusses five areas of the school environment lending themselves to the possibility of teacher and student teacher liability: negligence, malpractice, rights to privacy, field trips, and search of students and school property. Suggests specific guidelines for decreasing the possibility of adverse legal action. (NEC)
Descriptors: Educational Malpractice, Elementary Secondary Education, Field Trips, Guidelines
Raskin, Jamin B. – 2000
This casebook intends to show young people that their rights, their way of life, and indeed sometimes their very life, can depend on one remarkable document, the Constitution of the United States. The casebook is about the United States Constitution and how the Supreme Court and lower courts have interpreted it to govern the lives of U.S. public…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Court Litigation, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Daniel, Philip T.K. – School Business Affairs, 2003
Within the core of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) are a number of measures to hold states, school districts, schools, and school personnel more accountable for student progress. Summarizes state legislation and court cases concerning school administrators, tenure, collective bargaining, and personnel records. (Contains 32 references.) (MLF)
Descriptors: Accountability, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Personnel Evaluation
Bjorklun, Eugene C. – West's Education Law Quarterly, 1995
Explores whether using a review board to approve the use of a movie infringes on a teacher's right to academic freedom. Also examines, in the absence of such a policy, whether teachers can be disciplined for showing movies that some parents, board members, or administrators regard as inappropriate. (68 footnotes) (MLF)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Board of Education Policy, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education
Dowling-Sendor, Benjamin – American School Board Journal, 2000
In a case involving questionable canine search-and-seizure practices, a circuit court upheld a school board's decision to terminate a teacher's contract. While touting zero tolerance, the board fired an honored teacher 3 years from retirement who may not have known about the marijuana cigarette in her car. (MLH)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Drug Use Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Marijuana
Beckham, Joseph C. – 1995
This handbook is the 16th in the series of monographs designed to summarize judicial decisions on elementary and secondary education. The cases included in the book were selected from judicial decisions found in federal and regional reporters for the period July 1, 1993, to June 30, 1994. The cases provide a general overview of school law issues…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Court Litigation, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Montana Legislative Council, Helena. – 1984
The examination of Montana's teacher tenure laws as mandated by House Joint Resolution 43, required a thorough review of the legislative development of the teacher employment laws, a summary of relevant case law on the rights of school boards and teachers, an awareness of the philosophical postures of the affected parties, and a dispassionate look…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Due Process, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Clear, Delbert K.; Box, John M. – 1985
Dismissals for ineffective teaching, as distinguished from insubordination, immorality, or improper treatment of students, are rare because standards of teaching against which to juxtapose an individual teacher's behavior have not been available. However, abstract performance standards for teachers are beginning to emerge from research on teaching…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Problems