This article reviews some of the litigation affecting school health services in the country. In most cases the courts have ruled in favor of the schools. Presented at American School Health Association, Philadelphia, 1969. (KH)

The difficulty inherent in teaching a responsible view of the concept of federalism in Southern public schools is presented. (CK)

The governor of Pennsylvania describes that State's research and legislative experiences with year-round schools. (LR)

Good library legislation for public libraries is broad and general, flexible, permissive, specific in the authority for tax support but not with limitations, clear, conceise and stable. Library laws of Hawaii, California and Illinois can serve as models for the other states. (NH)

A New Jersey state law authorizes and directs the Commissioner of Education to establish summer workshops to train selected teachers in the area of drug abuse education, and who, in turn, teach a drug program to secondary school teachers. (DB)

Views controversies over the Miller-Unruh Reading Act as the origin of total state involvement in the teaching of reading in California. (MD)

New Mexico legislator proposes a tuition tax credit plan for individual taxpayers. (MK)

The effective and timely use of the Sunset Review process enabled Florida specialist-level school psychologists to become eligible for private practice licensure. By examining the history of Florida school psychology licensure, other state associations may better understand how social, economic, and political forces made this legislation possible.…

Asserts that legal restraints, such as those existing for other major professions, are needed in psychology. Outlines areas in psychological practice that might call for direct or indirect legal regulation. (GC)

Discusses Kansas' three-year experience with mandatory continuing education for relicensure for all nurses. Includes information on the law as well as the effects and problems of mandatory continuing education. (JOW)

Describes statutory limitations on taxation or spending adopted in eight states and the effects on educational programs. (WD)

Supervisory collective bargaining in education has grown 67 percent in four years, from 1,100 to 1,838 units. In all, 21 states have laws that allow administrator unionization and bargaining. Seven other states and the District of Columbia have local, voluntary recognition of bargaining units for school supervisors. (Author/IRT)

Examines the fate of 25 innovative instructional programs implemented in 1971-73 as a result of state legislation. Arrives at seven conclusions about why some programs (seven) were still in existence eight years later and why others were not. (IRT)

Provides a brief history of the Pennsylvania Public Employee Relations Act, examining both its antecedents and the studies made of it after it was in operation for some years. (IRT)