LEGAL ISSUES IN EDUCATION

Catalog description

The course centers on the discussion of a wide variety of legal issues which arise involving teachers, administrators, school board members, parents and students. Topics will include hiring, certification, supervision, evaluation, tenure, due process rights, discipline, child abuse and special education. Students will be expected to read and discuss a wide variety of court cases and primary source materials so as to extract important principles and practices, which will then be applied to hypothetical problems.