Synopses & Reviews
This book provides a broad legal background and helps teachers understand their rights and responsibilities, as well as, the rights of their students. School Law for Teachers covers the issues that are greatest concern to teachers today, namely employment and tenure, teachers' rights, teacher discipline, teachers' legal responsibilities, negligence and defamation, students' rights, education of students with disabilities, student discipline and due process, discrimination and harassment, and religion. Inservice Teachers, School Administrators, and Special Educators.
Synopsis
This book provides a broad legal background and helps teachers understand their rights and responsibilities, as well as, the rights of their students.
School Law for Teachers covers the issues that are greatest concern to teachers today, namely employment and tenure, teachers' rights, teacher discipline, teachers' legal responsibilities, negligence and defamation, students' rights, education of students with disabilities, student discipline and due process, discrimination and harassment, and religion.
Inservice Teachers, School Administrators, and Special Educators.
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 Legal Framework for the Public Schools
Chapter 2 Employment and Tenure
Chapter 3 Teachers' Rights
Chapter 4 Teacher Discipline
Chapter 5 Legal Responsibilities of Teachers
Chapter 6 Negligence and Defamation in the School Setting
Chapter 7 Students' Rights
Chapter 8 Education of Students with Disabilities
Chapter 9 Student Discipline and Due Process
Chapter 10 Discrimination and Harassment in the School Environment
Chapter 11 Religion in the Schools