The Principal's Quick-Reference Guide to School Law

Preface and Advisement About the Authors Introduction 1. Preventive Law: Developing Risk and Crisis Management Programs 2. The School and the Legal Environment Section A: Foundations of the School's Relatinoship to the Legal Environment Section B: Clauses of and Amendments to the US Constitution That Affect Education Practice Section C: Landmark Supreme Court Rulings That Affect Education Practice Section D: Highlights of Selected Portions of Federal Statutes That Affect Education Practice Section E: Workers' Compensation Section F: Legal Status of School Choice Section G: Statute of Limitations on Federal Cases 3. Constitutional and Statutory Foundations of Staff Selection, Contracting, and Evaluation Section A: Equal Employment Section B: Staff Selection Section C: Negligent Hiring, Defamation, and Referencing Section D: Performance Evaluation 4. Teachers' Rights Section A: Licensure and Employment Contracts Section B: Teachers' Rights Section C: Teacher Behaviors 5. Students' Rights Section A: Students' Rights to Symbolic Expression Section B: Students' Rights to Oral and Written Expression Section C: Students' Rights Related to Privacy, Search, and Seizure Section D: Students' Rights of Freedom to Assembly 6. Student Discipline Section A: Exclusion From School Section B: Corporal, Reasonable, and Excessive Punishment, Intentional Torts Section C: Disciplining Students for Acts Off School Grounds Section D: Liability for the Violation of Student Rights Section E: Zero Tolerance 7. Principal's Role in Special Education Services Section A: Key Terminology and Principles in Special Education Law Section B: Special Education Procedures 8. Academic Issues and Student Records Section A: Grade Assignment, Grade Reduction, Minimum Competency Tests Section B: Participation in Extracurricular Activities Section C: Student Records 9. Copyright Law 10. Search and Seizure 11. Program Management Section A: School Attendance Section B: Bilingual and Special Language Programs Section C: Religion in Public Schools Section D: "The Marketplace of Ideas" Section E: Health and Safety Issues 12. Students' Use of Technology, Social Media, and Other Emerging Cyber Issues Section A: Students' Right to Possess Electronic Devices and School District Ability to Search for and Within Electronic Devices Section B: Student Misconduct Using Technology On and Off School Grounds Section C: Cyber-Bullying and Harassment Section D: The Use of Technology by Schools to Monitor Students 13. Sexual Harassment 14. Danger Creation 15. Duty and Standards of Care: Liability for Negligence Section A: The Law of Torts and the Concept of Negligence Section B: The Concept of Negligence and its Application to Duty and Standards of Care Section C: The Concepts of Negligence, Duty, and Standards of Care and Their Application to Proper Instruction, Proper Supervision, Proper Maintenance, Field Trips, Post-Injury Treatment, Athletic Liability, and Spectator Safety Index