Educational policy controversies in the United States invariably implicate legal issues. Policy debates about testing and school choice, for example, cannot be disentangled from legal rights and mandates. The same is true for issues such as funding, campus safety, speech and religion rights, as well as the teaching of immigrant students. Written for a general audience, this new twelve-chapter book explores these compelling educational policy issues through that legal lens, building an understanding of both law and policy. The book's editors are Kevin Welner, associate professor of educational policy at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Wendy Chi, a doctoral candidate at Boulder. Both Welner and Chi are lawyers as well as educational scholars.

Building and supporting effective special education programs School leaders and special educators are expected to be experts on all levels and types of special education law and services, types of disability, and aspects of academic and functional programming. With the increasing demands of the job and the ever-changing legal and educational climate, many administrators and teachers are overwhelmed, and few feel adequately prepared to meet the demands. Trends and Legal Issues in Special Education helps you build and support timely, legally sound, and effective special education services and programs. Readers will find: the most up-to-date information on how to effectively implement special education programs, processes, and procedures examination of a wide variety of issues, from developing and implementing individual education programs (IEPs) that confer a free appropriate public education, Section 504, least restrictive environment (LRE), and successfully collaborating with parents, to issues regarding accountability, staffing, bullying, early childhood special education, multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS), evidence-based practices, transition, discipline, and the school-to-prison pipeline extensive references and resources Written as a comprehensive reference for all who work with students with disabilities, this book offers the most up-to-date research and field-tested strategies from a range of experts that special education professionals can confidently and immediately apply.

Educational policy controversies in the United States invariably implicate legal issues. Policy debates about testing and school choice, for example, cannot be disentangled from legal rights and mandates. The same is true for issues such as funding, campus safety, speech and religion rights, as well as the teaching of immigrant students. Written for a general audience, this new twelve-chapter book explores these compelling educational policy issues through that legal lens, building an understanding of both law and policy. The book's editors are Kevin Welner, associate professor of educational policy at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Wendy Chi, a doctoral candidate at Boulder. Both Welner and Chi are lawyers as well as educational scholars.

Education Policy and the Law: Cases and Commentary provides a comprehensive case and problem-based approach to studying the cases, statutes, and developments that shape education law and policy. The Second Edition brings up-to-date the major themes of education law - the First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution with a particular focus on the Equal Protection and Due Process guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment. It highlights reforms in education law that forcefully shape education policy today - school choice, homeschooling, special needs education, educational malpractice, school safety law, school police, and restorative justice school discipline reform. The Second Edition has three distinguishing characteristics: Cases and Statutes. The book is organized to provide an overview of the major cases from both federal courts and state courts as well as instructive federal and state legislation. Commentary and Narratives. The Second Edition contains a compelling compendium of notes, comments, and stories about how the legal system and policymakers are responding to legal duties and policy constraints. Hypothetical Policy Problems. Drawing on the success of the problem-based sections used in the First Edition textbook, the Second Edition contains problems designed to help learners apply legal principles to policy fact patterns.

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How the United States can provide equal educational opportunity to every child The United States Supreme Court closed the courthouse door to federal litigation to narrow educational funding and opportunity gaps in schools when it ruled in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez in 1973 that the Constitution does not guarantee a right to education. Rodriguez pushed reformers back to the state courts where they have had some success in securing reforms to school funding systems through education and equal protection clauses in state constitutions, but far less success in changing the basic structure of school funding in ways that would ensure access to equitable and adequate funding for schools. Given the limitations of state school funding litigation, education reformers continue to seek new avenues to remedy inequitable disparities in educational opportunity and achievement, including recently returning to federal court. This book is the first comprehensive examination of three issues regarding a federal right to education: why federal intervention is needed to close educational opportunity and achievement gaps; the constitutional and statutory legal avenues that could be employed to guarantee a federal right to education; and, the scope of what a federal right to education should guarantee. A Federal Right to Education provides a timely and thoughtful analysis of how the United States could fulfill its unmet promise to provide equal educational opportunity and the American Dream to every child, regardless of race, class, language proficiency, or neighborhood.

It also discusses the implications of the law for educational policy and practice."--Jacket.

This one-volume treatise summarizes and explains a myriad of legal trends and principles in the rich and varied field of American education law. The second edition of Practical Education Law for the Twenty-First Century is divided into ten chapters, each dealing with a substantive area in education law. Topics covered include school finances, school search and crime issues, residency and fee issues, basic labor law, alternative education and vouchers, injuries to students, athletics, and the overall organization and regulation of public education. Within each chapter are a number of concise sections that address specific legal concerns. Citations are nationwide in scope and include references to updated federal and state case law, federal statutory law, and state statutory law. Practical law tips appear throughout the volume. This highly readable text is extremely accessible to nonlegal audiences, as well as useful to the legally trained reader and to the law student. "This book is a must for all educational lawyers, counsel to towns, school boards, and school administrators. The treatise is accessible and suitable for law school and non-law school classes. Acquisition law librarians for all law schools need to order this book. Professor Dodd's emphasis on real-life situations makes it an excellent desk book for school boards, superintendents of schools, and educational policymakers, as well as the lawyers that represent them. This book will be useful as supplemental reading in graduate school of education courses in school administration. The book receives the Bimonthly Review of Law Books five-star rating for readability, accessibility, and relevance." -- Michael Rustad, Bimonthly Review of Law Books, on the first edition "This book...provides an excellent overview of education law in the U.S... Both students and practitioners will find this book very helpful. This work would make an excellent textbook for undergraduate and graduate education classes as well as law school classes covering education law." -- Legal Information ALERT, on the first edition "Thoroughly researched, well organized, and easy to read, the book concisely outlines each area of law, and cites to numerous cases, laws, and other supporting materials, all in the footnotes and through a table of cases, so as not to interrupt the easy flow of the text. This book is a must for practitioners and legal scholars in the field of education or education law." -- Suffolk University Juvenile Justice Center Newsletter, November 2003, on the first edition