Containing over 20% new content and two additional chapters, this updated casebook addresses legal and public policy issues and controversies affecting K-12 as well as higher education. In addition to fundamental caselaw, the book includes fifty-nine original hypotheticals, extensive material on technology-related issues, recent developments in First Amendment law, ""guidance"" from the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education, and a strong focus on equal access to quality education. Topical coverage includes campus safety and the criminal justice system, the rights of educators, bilingual education, disability rights law, race-conscious remedies, religion in the schools, LGBT-related controversies, gender equity, and expanded coverage of privacy law issues, the school-to-prison pipeline, cyber-bullying, the impact of ""Race to the Top"" and ESEA flexibility, the ongoing battle over K-12 teacher tenure rights, and the implications of the burgeoning charter school movement.
| ISBN: | 9781628101089 |
| Publication date: | 30th December 2015 |
| Author: | Stuart Biegel, Robert Kim, Kevin Grant Welner |
| Publisher: | West Academic Publishing an imprint of West Academic |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 1076 pages |
| Series: | American Casebook Series |
| Genres: |
Education law |