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School Law for Public, Private, and Parochial Educators
Author(s): Leo H. Bradley (Author)
- Publisher: R&L Education (UK)
- Publication Date: 16 Aug. 2005
- Language: English
- Print length: 320 pages
- ISBN-10: 1578862620
- ISBN-13: 9781578862627
Book Description
Here is a book to serve educators from all types of schools in either pre-service or professional development that is designed as a text for masters and licensure (post-masters) level. This book covers all the relevant issues in school law:
·The legal system
·The federal and state role in education
·Church-state relationships
·Attendance law
·The instructional program
·Student rights
·Teacher contracts
·Rights and freedoms
·Teacher negligence
·Law for handicapped students, and
·Desegregation
·The legal system
·The federal and state role in education
·Church-state relationships
·Attendance law
·The instructional program
·Student rights
·Teacher contracts
·Rights and freedoms
·Teacher negligence
·Law for handicapped students, and
·Desegregation
The author groups case summaries, which include a brief, ramifications, and topics of interest to educators, together at the end of each chapter to facilitate research efforts. The book is a concise presentation of the constitutional, statutory, and case law knowledge that is needed for the effective day-to-day operation of schools and school systems. Contemporary issues having a large impact on school law, such as vouchers, the evolution vs. creation controversy, and home-schooling are included.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Bradley navigates the reader through the minefield of legal issues that confront administrators regularly – religious issues, student rights, teacher contracts, teacher negligence and students with disabilities.
Written for use in master’s and licensure courses, this text covers the constitutional, statutory and case law knowledge necessary for effective day-to-day operation of school systems.
About the Author
Leo H. Bradley has been a professor of school law for fifteen years. Prior to his professoriate, he held the positions of teacher, principal, curriculum director, assistant superintendent, and superintendent in Ohio public schools.
