Describes procedures required of boards of education by the courts in disciplining students. (JF)

Teachers should be knowledgeable not only about their own rights but also about classroom situations in which they may be held legally responsible for the welfare of their students. (JD)

Discusses the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Goss v. Lopez that public schools may not suspend a student for 10 days or less without giving him advance notice of the charges against him and allowing him to respond to the charges. (JG)

Discusses the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling in the Strickland case that school board members must know the "basic, unquestioned constitutional rights" of all students and that individual board members may be liable to damage suits filed by students whose rights have been violated. (JG)

This publication briefly discusses the legal status of various methods of school discipline and related efforts to control the behavior of elementary and secondary school students. Specific topics examined include corporal punishment, suspension, expulsion, exclusion from extracurricular activities, detention, truancy, verbal correction, a variety…

The principal's domain has been increasingly shaped by demands for accountability, by student activism and teacher collectivism, and by increased administrative centralization. Principals need to know their legal rights and responsibilities in order to survive in the principalship. This book was designed to serve as a practice primer for the…