The legal ins and outs of collective bargaining between students and school officials. (Author/RA)

It is a clear and well established legal principle in most States that school board actions are acts of the district and it is the district, not the individual board members, which may be held liable, so long as the individual members acted in good faith and within the scope of their powers as boardsmen. (DE)

The courts are not likely to put educational straight jackets on school boards by insisting on a certain amount of achievement to which all children of a given age or maturity must attain. (Author)

Provides up-to-date advice for school board members on the use of corporal punishment in the schools. Reviews recent court cases in the state of Georgia. Provides four legal guidelines to apply in corporal punishment cases. (MD)

School boards can (and, I believe, should for their own protection) encourage their administrators and teachers to be child advocates, giving the lie to the canard--often used successfully by plaintiffs--that school officials traditionally are authoritarian, arbitrary, and unilateral in their procedures. (Author)

A teacher need not prove he is competent to keep his job, but a school board must prove he is incompetent in order to get rid of him. (Author)

The fundamental question facing school boards--how to balance the impelling state interest in producing a literate population with the guaranteed civil liberties of the individual--arises in eight areas: accountability, collective bargaining, curriculum, finance, governance, liability, personnel, and student rights. (Author/IRT)

Although school board members traditionally have been immune from civil suits, recent litigations in some states have held school board members personally liable for certain torts, thus making liability insurance for school boards a good business practice. (LLR)

Provides five suggestions to help school boards avoid the appearance of bias. (IRT)

As a result of a turnabout by the Supreme Court, suits against school boards, as corporate bodies, are likely to increase. (Author/IRT)

The cases reviewed here suggest that the Supreme Court is evolving a hands-off policy in matters that rightfully belong to the states. Education is an instance. (Author/IRT)

Students may be punished for publishing articles that urge disruption or that are obscene, defamatory, malicious, or improperly invade the privacy of others. The school board should adopt a strong, clear policy that does not violate the First Amendment. (Author/IRT)