Describes Electronic Legislative Search System (ELSS), a comprehensive service which tracks current state and federal legislation and provides careful monitoring of status of bills in its database. Contents of the database, search criteria and priority, format options, learning to search, and updating the system are noted. Sample searches are…

Reading habits as private or public affairs are discussed in this essay concerning the application of the right of privacy to library circulation records. Several related court cases and library exemptions granted by state legislatures in 17 states are noted. Twenty-six references are cited. (EJS)

The school bank at Easton Middle School operated successfully as an educational experience until the state bank examiners closed it for violating banking laws. The process has become a "real life" education as school authorities and students work to change the law and open a "legal bank." (MD)

Asserts that existing accountability policies assume that a single behaviorist theory is the one best system for effective education. Examines the pitfalls of the one-system approach through the examples of John Stuart Mill's utilitarian upbringing and "Gradgrindism" in Charles Dickens' novel "Hard Times." (SK)

Reviews and analyzes the counselor's "duty to warn" as it has been interpreted by the courts. If counselors have reasonable knowledge that a client's conduct may be harmful to another, then they have a legal duty to warn the intended victim. (RC)

A national survey was conducted to determine the existing legal authority of the 50 states concerning the administration and overall management of legally prescribed drugs in the school system and to delineate the major components contained in the statutes, promulgated regulations, opinions of attorneys general, and recommended guidelines. (SW)

The career education movement is viewed through a historical perspective in four periods (1971-74, 1975-78, 1978-81, and 1982 and beyond). The author examines emphases, grants, implementation efforts, federal influence, state influence, and the power of local school districts. (CT)

A teacher, an aide, and four students from Manhattan High (Kansas) set out to defeat a bill to allow a young man to homestead an island important for its overwintering bald eagle habitat. Through research, lobbying the state legislature, and help from the National Audubon Society, the bill is defeated. (LC)

Presented are excerpts from speeches delivered at the New Jersey Education Association's Symposium on Teacher Evaluation. (SJL)

Reviews the history of state library financial support and argues for direct state aid to all libraries which meet moderate standards. Recent judicial decisions are discussed in this context. (JVP)

The New Jersey Education Association outlines the provisions of the state's 1979-80 tenured teacher evaluation regulations and advises its members on how to protect themselves during the annual evaluation process, especially in the conference with the evaluator. (SJL)

Under the "Holliday" decision an older worker is now allowed to choose the quicker of the two available remedies and is not compelled to select the state remedy if that would unduly impede a prompt resolution of his grievance. Available from School of Law, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri 65211; sc $3.50. (Author)

Examines the procedural due process rights of public school teachers in Iowa in light of recent changes in the Iowa statute governing the termination of teacher contracts. The changes include the requirement of "just cause" in contract termination. Available from the Drake Law Review, Des Moines, Iowa 50311; sc $5.00. (Author/IRT)

Outlines five approaches to the use of court injunctions to end public employee work stoppages. The current use of injunctions seriously impedes free and open collective bargaining. (Author/IRT)

The revitalization of the Contract Clause indicates that it is not the public employee who must be the first to sacrifice to get a city out of financial trouble. (Author/IRT)