Complicated and potentially damaging, are the legal issues that school principals, administrators, and teachers handle and resolve on a daily basis. These issues are complex on so many levels because they not only affect the lives of the students and education professionals, but the school community as well. This comprehensive information is vital given the myriad of statutes and legal decisions affecting the daily teaching experience, which includes the many pitfalls awaiting the unwary within our litigious-oriented modern world. In this course, learn how to manage a proactive approach of providing first-rate education and operations, while minimizing legal risks that includes respecting the legal rights of students and teachers.
Through the outstanding research of the highly-respected law experts,the author, learns how to translate school law into practice. Information is conveyed in a concise, reader-friendly format that includes references to landmark court cases, programmatic guidance, management cues, risk management guidelines, and a comprehensive index. Material focuses on such areas as preventative law, technology concerns and laws, search and seizure, state-created danger and deliberate indifference, sexual harassment, the school and the legal environment, No Child Left Behind Act, human resources issues, teachers' rights, students' rights, special education laws and services, student records, athletics and after-school activities, communication, copyright law, school safety, program management, community relations, tort liability and negligence. This comprehensive course offers an accurate and accessible reference tool, written in plain English, which gives the education professional the invaluable information they need to do their job while reducing liability, litigation and other potential legal tangles.
Obtain hands-on school law knowledge and insights to minimize site-based risk while respecting the legal rights of students, staff, and parents. This timely and extensive overview of school law is presented and examined in a very user-friendly and insightful format that teachers will not only benefit from the knowledge but be anxious to apply these concepts to real-life scenarios.