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Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC. – 1980
This summary provides an overview of developments in school finance litigation since the United States Supreme Court's historic and lamentable 1973 ruling in "San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez" that wealth-based discrimination in educational expenditures does not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Discriminatory Legislation
Levin, Betsy – 1975
This paper traces the arguments and effects of both the Serrano and Rodriguez decisions and examines the state litigation and legislation spawned by them. The author notes that while the pace of school finance reform litigation has slowed, it has not halted altogether. It is now more tailored to the characteristics of the individual states…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Court Litigation, Educational Finance, Educational Quality
Download full textSupreme Court of the U. S., Washington, DC. – 1973
In this landmark educational finance opinion (presented here in full) the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Texas case was not a proper case in which to examine a State's laws under standards of strict judicial scrutiny. That test, according to the Court, is reserved for cases involving laws that operate to the disadvantage of suspect classes or…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Court Litigation, Economic Status, Educational Finance
Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association. – 1993
These guidelines explaining state pupil nondiscrimination requirements in interscholastic athletics are the result of a collaboration between the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA). The guide is designed to help schools fully implement Wisconsin's pupil nondiscrimination…
Descriptors: Athletics, Educational Objectives, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Lebrato, Mary T., Ed. – 1986
This manual provides an overview of sexual harassment and what can be done about it. Although it deals with laws in California, its general sections and sections of federal laws could be used by persons in any state. The guide contains 12 chapters. Chapter 1 includes a discussion of what sexual harassment is and how it affects society and the…
Descriptors: Adults, Affirmative Action, Civil Rights Legislation, Compliance (Legal)
PDF pending restorationSawyer, Kimberly A. – 1984
California's Proposition 8, known as "The Victims' Bill of Rights," contains a safe-schools provision that states: "All students and staff of primary, elementary, junior high and senior high schools have the inalienable right to attend campuses which are safe, secure and peaceful." Through extended reference to federal and…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Discipline Problems
Northup, James P. – 1980
This book brings together materials, cases, and opinions regarding the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974; analyzes these materials; and examines their impact on employer personnel policies. Also considered are the amendments to the 1967…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Age Discrimination, Business, Court Litigation
Tractenberg, Paul L.; Kahn, Laura – 1979
Legal issues of minimum competency testing derive from federal and state constitutional, statutory, and regulatory provisions, and from common law. Constitutional provisions for equal protection, due process, and freedom of belief and privacy, are primarily federal; education provisions are state mandated. Only four court cases have directly…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Discriminatory Legislation, Due Process
Ambrogi, Robert; And Others – 1978
The handbook provides information in question-and-answer format on the legal rights of developmentally disabled persons, focusing on those in the state of Massachusetts. An introductory section discusses developmental disabilities and advocacy. The main section, on legal rights, covers such areas as discrimination (including Section 504 of the…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Criminal Law, Developmental Disabilities
Triplett, Tom – 1995
This paper examines the federal and state constitutional and statutory issues that affect the capacity of governments to raise revenue for education and other children's services, including mandates and key legislation that limit revenues, expenditures, and borrowing. The paper is divided into three major sections: (1) legal issues affecting…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Block Grants, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation
Beckham, Joseph, Ed.; Zirkel, Perry A., Ed. – 1983
The relationship between public schools and their employees is one of the most frequently litigated aspects of American education. Accordingly, the chapters in this text present a comprehensive and current report of legal issues in public school employment. Chapter titles and authors are as follows: (1) "Critical Elements of the Employment…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Court Role
Jones, Thomas N., Ed.; Semler, Darel P., Ed. – 1984
A wide variety of contemporary legal issues are addressed in the 15 separate papers that make up this volume. The introductory chapter by William C. Bednar, Jr. provides a broad-based rationale for "Preventive School Law." Chapters 2 and 3, both by Gerald A. Caplan, review "Current Issues in Reduction-in-Force" and "First Amendment Claims by…
Descriptors: Accountability, Civil Rights, Compliance (Legal), Constitutional Law
California Community Colleges, Sacramento. Board of Governors. – 1979
Over 70 recommendations are contained in this report submitted to the Joint Committee on Vocational Education by Steiger, Fink, and Kosecoff, Inc. This outside agency received a contract in December, 1978, to: (1) evaluate activities and services provided by the State Department of Education and the Chancellor's Office of the California Community…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Compliance (Legal), Educational Finance, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Snyder, Vivian C.; Huttula, Janet D. – 1983
This handbook provides answers to questions that state department program access coordinators most frequently ask when involved in evaluating for accessibility for handicapped persons and when developing changes to ensure that departmental programs and activities are equally effective and accessible to persons with disabilities. The handbook…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Adults, Affirmative Action, Civil Rights Legislation
Benson, Charles S., Comp.; And Others – 1980
The Stanford-Berkeley Seminar on School Finance and Organization was convened to reexamine the problems that underlay the educational finance reform movement, to consider the new problems caused by that movement, and to recommend research topics and study areas that could help alleviate those problems in years to come. The eight papers discussed…
Descriptors: Career Education, Child Development, Child Psychology, Consolidated Schools
