Education and the Law

Containing over 25 percent new content and two completely revised chapters, this updated casebook addresses legal and public policy issues affecting K-12 as well as higher education. The book includes 57 original hypotheticals, extensive material on technology-related issues, and a strong focus on equal access to quality education. Topical coverage includes campus safety and the criminal justice system, sexual harassment and assault, the rights of educators, bilingual education, disability rights law, race-conscious remedies, religion in the schools, LGBT-related controversies, gender equity, free speech and expression, and expanded coverage of privacy law issues, the school-to-prison pipeline, cyber-bullying, the Every Student Succeeds Act, the ongoing battle over K-12 teacher tenure rights, charter school legal issues, and the embattled rights of undocumented students. See more