This book provides a broad legal background and helps teachers understand their rights and responsibilities, as well as, the rights of their students. School Law for Teachers covers the issues that are greatest concern to teachers today, namely employment and tenure, teachers' rights, teacher discipline, teachers' legal responsibilities, negligence and defamation, students' rights, education of students with disabilities, student discipline and due process, discrimination and harassment, and religion. Inservice Teachers, School Administrators, and Special...

For students, human resources administrators, educational administrators, professional educators, policy makers, social scientists, and the interested public

A strong research base, principles relevant to all school systems and states, and actual illustrations and examples from real school districts combine in this incisive look at the challenges and issues shaping public education and human resources in the U.S. today.

The new edition of this widely respected book looks at the major challenges and issues shaping public education and human resources...