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Download full textStader, David L. – 2001
A review of legal decisions provides thought-provoking considerations for administrators who want to deter drug use on campus. The United States Supreme Court has recognized that even a limited search of students is a substantial invasion of privacy, but also that school officials need to maintain school discipline. Guidelines for the…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Drug Use Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Search and Seizure
Dowling-Sendor, Benjamin – American School Board Journal, 2000
In its "stare decisis" ruling upholding a Pennsylvania school district's random drug-testing policy, a three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals nonetheless declared its disagreement with a similar panel's 1998 decision upholding another district's policy of random, suspicionless drug, alcohol, and tobacco testing. (MLH)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Drug Use Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Privacy
Peer reviewedDeMitchell, Todd A.; Carroll, Thomas – Journal of School Leadership, 1997
The Vernonia (Oregon) School District passed a mandatory random drug testing policy for student athletes that was later upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. A survey of randomly selected superintendents in five geographic regions disclosed that a majority of respondents who knew about the case were leaning toward not adopting a similar policy. (28…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Athletes, Court Litigation, Drug Use Testing
Klauke, Amy; Hadderman, Margaret – 1990
Despite privacy concerns, school administrators are feeling pressure to adopt urgent measures to keep drugs and alcohol from further endangering our youth's well-being and undermining staff performance. This urgency is reinforced by a national anti-drug campaign and Congressional passage of the Drug-Free Workplace Act (1988) and the Drug-Free…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Alcohol Abuse, Athletes, Drug Abuse
Peer reviewedStefkovich, Jacqueline A. – Journal for a Just and Caring Education, 1996
In recent years, public school students have been searched with metal detectors and occasionally sniffed by dogs or strip searched. Their lockers and bookbags have been searched, and their urine has been tested for drugs--all in the name of school safety. This article explores the legal ramifications of such searches and calls for a critical…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Drug Use Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Legal Problems
Peer reviewedHutton, Chris – Journal of Law and Education, 1992
Discusses the decision to implement a drug and alcohol testing program, analyzing how such programs fit within the traditional functions of criminal and administrative law, pinpoints some messages conveyed by testing programs, and discusses factual premises that should underlay such programs. Reviews recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings and gauges…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Court Litigation, Criminal Law, Drug Use Testing
