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)

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)

Members of the National Organization on Legal Problems of Education (NOLPE) should question what they want educators to remember a decade after completing a basic school law course. The question was put at NOLPE's first convention in 1955 when President Madaline Kinter Remmlein sought cooperation for beginning courses in school law and gave…

In this paper, the author defines due process, discusses its elements, describes its minimum essentials, and examines court cases which apply the doctrine to teachers, administrators, and students. The court cases discussed by the author indicate situations in which due process is mandated and the extent of due process required in these…

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)

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

Recent developments in school law by a foremost school law authority. (LR)

This paper deals with the class action suit as a litigious phenomenon, its future possibilities as an emerging field of legal specialization, and its potential benefits to those classes who look to it as a way of attaining relief that they might otherwise find foreclosed to them were they to seek court assistance acting as individuals. Four…

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)

Pure research in school law is not possible, since the researcher must rely on inquiry that can be verified by experience and observation in the field. The studies produced in the past year tend to fall into the following classes: compliance, accountability, impact, cost-effectiveness, Supreme Court decisions, and the process by which minority law…