Education Law, Sixth Edition provides a comprehensive survey of the legal problems and issues confronting school leaders, teachers, and policymakers today. Court cases accompanied by explanation and analysis can help aspiring educators understand the subtlety and richness of the law. Accordingly, each of the 12 thematic chapters begins with an overview, concludes with a summary, and balances an explanation of the important principles of education law with actual court decisions to illuminate those issues most relevant for educational policy and practice. This updated and expanded Sixth Edition includes: Revision of case law, education policy, and citations to reflect the most recent decisions and developments in the field. Cases and commentary on key topics such as constitutional rights of students in public schools, school discipline, safety, and zero tolerance policies, school choice and parental rights claims, the regulation of charter schools and home-based education, cyberbullying and the regulation of online speech, racial and sexual harassment policies, and collective bargaining, unions, and working conditions. eResources accessible at www.routledge.com/9780367195250 include a Glossary for students, Chapter Outlines and Abstracts for instructors, as well as Tables of Cases.
This book takes the education professional, lawyer, or parent through the process of providing special education services to children. Should differences arise between the child's parents and a public agency,...
Deals with the problems in education after ten years of reforms that were aimed at substantially revising the Russian education system. It contains the papers discussed in 1998 and 1999...
Also available as an ebook." — Booklist The Encyclopedia of Education Law is a compendium of information drawn from the various dimensions of education law that tells its story from a variety of perspectives.
34 Journal of Law & Education 497 (2005); Perry Z. Zirkel, “Counterpoint Intro: Students With Diabetes: Life and Law Are Not Sweet,” 35 Journal of Law & Education 497 (2006); James F. McKethan & David H. Phillips, “State Statutes to ...
Sections 61–63B Education Act 1989. For a full discussion see Rishworth, P. T. (1996) “Recent Developments in Education Law in New Zealand” Vol. 1(1) Australia and New Zealand Journal of Law and Education 33. 14.
A foster parent is a person who acts as parent and guardian for a child in place of the child's natural parents but without legally adopting the child. Although this term has a wide variety of possible definitions, it is generally used ...
This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication.
It came about as a result of changes that were made to the federal special education law (called the IDEA) in December 2004 and in October 2006 when the United States Department of Education issued new federal regulations.
Special Education Law is a series of Federal and State statutes, regulations and Judge - made decisions, called precedent law, which combined together provide a civil rights based protection to a class of people who have been ...
Students with Disabilities and Special Education Law