As public use of school facilities increases, legal questions concerning their use can also be expected to increase. Such increases in litigation are most likely to involve the constitutional rights of students to use school facilities. Anticipating this increase, this paper reviews some cases dealing with constitutional issues of freedom of…

This speech, through an analysis of significant court cases, discusses the rights of married students. The cases analyzed center around the application of due process and equal protection rights to married students. Rights of married students that are discussed include the right to attend school and the right to participate in extracurricular…

Changes in constitutional doctrine and a number of recent Supreme Court decisions suggest that an equal protection challenge to the fiscally motivated shutdown of a public education program would be well founded. (Author)

The power of school boards to classify pupils for the purposes of admission to or expulsion from school and school activities was restricted in four recently decided federal court cases: two involving discrimination against new-wed students and two involving discrimination against female students. Decisions limit the power of school boards over…

Author describes various legislation for academic women with sex discrimination grievances. Federal laws now provide remedies for discrimination in academic employment. (NL)

Discusses student rights in the areas of dress codes, freedom of speech, and due process. (JF)

Analyzes a 1982 Supreme Court decision in which a Texas statute that authorized local school districts to deny enrollment in public schools to children who were not "legally admitted" to the United States was judged to violate the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause. (MJL)

Constitutional protections must not yield to the political passions of the moment. As a result of Narenji, in international crises foreign citizens temporarily in the United States are in jeopardy of being singled out to prove their individual blamelessness. (Journal availability: Dennis & Company, 251 Main St., Buffalo, NY 14203.) (MSE)

Public Law 95-555, which expands the definition of sex discrimination in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, reverses the judicial determination that pregnancy is not a sex-based attribute. Available from School of Law, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211. (Author/IRT)

The Texas statute denying undocumented aliens a free public school education does not pass muster under strict scrutiny and is, therefore, unconstitutional. Available from the Texas International Law Journal, 2500 Red River, Austin, TX 78705; sc $4.00. (Author/IRT)

Reexamines the "Brown" decision, including its background, the issues before the Court, the holding, and the implementation decision. (IRT)