The paper highlights selected comments by noted individuals on the impact of such recent court cases as Serrano vs Priest on State school financing systems. The financing issue is discussed within the framework of the idea of local control under a full State funding system, adjustments in property taxes, and the institution of a Federal value…

This report discusses the implications of recent court decisions that invalidate local school finance systems on grounds of denial of equal protection. The author examines the school financing options available to Mississippi in the light of these recent State court decisions and in view of a forthcoming U. S. Supreme Court decision on the…

The Voting Rights Act contains different provisions, some of which apply throughout the country and some of which apply only in those states and local jurisdictions that meet the conditions and tests spelled out in the act. This booklet explains the general provisions of the act, including the following: voter qualifications, civil suits and…

This brief urges the Supreme Court to reverse the judgment of the California Supreme Court. (IRT)

This brief urges the Supreme Court to affirm the California Supreme Court decision. (IRT)

Guidelines which reflect the level of the parents' legal involvement is advocated to protect the child's "best interests": when parents choose mediation, a specialist in child custody is appointed to educate and assist in the decision-making process; when parents choose litigation, counsel is appointed to represent the child. (Author)

Reviews judicial decisions involving school staff evaluation systems. Courts remain reluctant to interfere with the summative evaluation process of a school district. Administrators must apply reasoned, ascertainable standards in employment decisions in order to withstand judicial scrutiny amid the array of legal constraints on the evaluation of…

The purpose of this paper is to explore the implications of ability grouping in relation to equal educational opportunity as provided for by the "equal protection clause" of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In view of the disproportionate numbers of minorities assigned to low ability groups, is grouping legal? (Author/JM)

This guide is designed to support the teaching of the material contained in the introductory text, "Criminal Justice in America." The guide provides information about the text, detailed descriptions of the variety of teaching strategies employed, suggested teaching sequences, activity masters, and chapter and final tests. It is organized…

Attempts to provide a framework to assess legal problems of discrimination in upper level employment, focusing primarily on discrimination in hiring and promotion. (Authors)

First discusses the actual prospects for school finance following from Serrano v. Priest'' and subsequent court decisions, and then suggests how such reform may possibly help to bring about important changes in the hierarchy of jobs and the distribution of income. (Author/JM)

Warns that the recent California decision on state school support may not improve financial problems of urban schools. (JF)

Competency-based education programs could raise three kinds of legal issues: claims under the due process clause, claims of discrimination under the equal protection clause, and claims of negligence. (Author/JM)

Tge Congressional Research Service finds that the Supreme Court has been groping for a standard doctrine to resolve children's rights cases. For the most part, however, its decisions are still best analyzed in terms of the underlying right claimed, such as parental primacy, first amendment rights, due process, and privacy. (Author/GC)

Economic, psychological, and social effects of age discrimination in employment are examined. This note analyzes constitutional challenges to hiring-age ceiling and mandatory retirement policies, as well as the constitutional criteria against which those ceilings and policies should be measured. Federal statutory prohibitions and their judicial…