The fifth in the Legal Problems of Education Series, this book deals with school board operation in relation to the legal problems surrounding de facto segregation and collective bargaining. The legal problems reviewed and discussed are organized into six chapters dealing with records, procedures, remedies against school board members,…

See TE 499 864, above.

School administrators face increasing risks in the field of school communications. While a school administrator acting in the line of duty and without malice is protected by conditional privilege against libel and slander, it is easy to step outside this protection, and become liable for false or misleading statements. Knowing the results of the…

This brief report consists of a series of observations on governance, planning, and coordination in Montana postsecondary education. It offers an impressionistic overview of three selected issues: the regents and the 1972 Constitution (background, governance, accountability, and legal protection); Governance of Vocational-Technical Centers (the…

This report of the 1970 International Broadcast Institute (IBI) surveyed legal and communicational experts in France, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States on the general topic of satellite broadcasting. The responses covered technical data (satellite and ground systems), legal information (international law and the International…

This paper presents the sum of both individual research and the five papers specially prepared for the Upper Midwestern Region Interstate Project Constracting Conference (Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 9-10, 1972.) In particular, the various sections that comprise the publication speak to those aspects of performance contracting suggested for the…

This report examines fiscal and legal issues affecting nonresident students. Chapter 1 classifies students for tuition purposes. Results of new laws and governing actions taken through January 1973 are reviewed. Chapter 2 examines factors other than laws and regulations that influence student migration. These factors include: quotas on the…

Few concepts have ever raised simultaneously as many hopes and fears about the future of American education as has the idea of educational vouchers. Voucher proponents want to change the traditional system of using tax funds for financing public schools to an arrangement of providing tax vouchers to individual parents, who would purchase education…

This paper first traces the history of racial segregation in the California Public Schools, revealing that while the first California constitution provided for a system of common schools, the schools were initially common to white pupils only. The paper then demonstrates that the State has an affirmative duty under the 14th Amendment to end public…

Addressed to citizen groups, local government officials, and others concerned with the development of cable television in their communities, this report summarizes briefly some of the major issues surrounding local decisionmaking for cable television. This summary presents some of the more detailed information found in the companion publication,…

Eight major papers from an institute on health education on drug abuse and the handicapped child are presented, some of which are followed by question-and-answer sessions. The keynote address on medical aspects of drug abuse discusses primarily the various legal drugs (and their side effects) that are used by handicapped children, usually at the…

During the past two decades legislatures and courts have reshaped public educational policy. The increasing public awareness of the role of law in all aspects of society and the growing complexity of the educational enterprises have catapulted teachers into litigation to an unprecedented degree. As this trend shows no signs of diminishing in the…

This book shows the novice reporter how to recognize a news story, get the necessary ingredients, put them together properly, and polish the finished product. It also presents a look at the reporter's work and details the major legal pitfalls awaiting unwary journalists. Since the step-by-step techniques shown concentrate more on the process of…

This document contains the results of California court decisions in litigation involving the status, or status and pay of part-time faculty in California community colleges. The information in the report was obtained by asking each California community college president and district superintendent to report whether their college or district was,…

Tracing the impact of specific federal laws and regulations on such private college concerns as residence hall housing requirements, student privacy rights, race and sex discrimination, the demise of "in loco parentis," student discipline and "due process," and compulsory chapel, the author suggests appropriate responses of religious colleges to…