The principal's quick-reference guide to school law : reducing liability, litigation, and other potential legal tangles /: reducing liability, litigation, and other potential legal tangles. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Robert F. Hachiya, Robert J. Shoop, Dennis R. Dunklee.
• Authors: Hachiya, Robert (Robert F.); Shoop, Robert J; Dunklee, Dennis R
• Contents: Preface and Advisement; About the Authors; Introduction; 1. Preventive Law: Developing Risk and Crisis Management Programs; 2. The School and the Legal Environment; Section A: Foundations of the School's Relatinoship to the Legal Environment; Section B: Clauses of and Amendments to the US Constitution That Affect Education Practice; Section C: Landmark Supreme Court Rulings That Affect Education Practice; Section D: Highlights of Selected Portions of Federal Statutes That Affect Education Practice; Section E: Workers' Compensation; Section F: Legal Status of School Choice; Section G: Statute of Limitations on Federal Cases; 3. Constitutional and Statutory Foundations of Staff Selection, Contracting, and Evaluation; Section A: Equal Employment; Section B: Staff Selection; Section C: Negligent Hiring, Defamation, and Referencing; Section D: Performance Evaluation; 4. Teachers' Rights; Section A: Licensure and Employment Contracts; Section B: Teachers' Rights; Section C: Teacher Behaviors; 5. Students' Rights; Section A: Students' Rights to Symbolic Expression; Section B: Students' Rights to Oral and Written Expression; Section C: Students' Rights Related to Privacy, Search, and Seizure; Section D: Students' Rights of Freedom to Assembly; 6. Student Discipline; Section A: Exclusion From School; Section B: Corporal, Reasonable, and Excessive Punishment, Intentional Torts; Section C: Disciplining Students for Acts Off School Grounds; Section D: Liability for the Violation of Student Rights; Section E: Zero Tolerance; 7. Principal's Role in Special Education Services; Section A: Key Terminology and Principles in Special Education Law; Section B: Special Education Procedures; 8. Academic Issues and Student Records; Section A: Grade Assignment, Grade Reduction, Minimum Competency Tests; Section B: Participation in Extracurricular Activities; Section C: Student Records; 9. Copyright Law; 10. Search and Seizure; 11. Program Management; Section A: School Attendance; Section B: Bilingual and Special Language Programs; Section C: Religion in Public Schools; Section D: "The Marketplace of Ideas"; Section E: Health and Safety Issues; 12. Students' Use of Technology, Social Media, and Other Emerging Cyber Issues; Section A: Students' Right to Possess Electronic Devices and School District Ability to Search for and Within Electronic Devices; Section B: Student Misconduct Using Technology On and Off School Grounds; Section C: Cyber-Bullying and Harassment; Section D: The Use of Technology by Schools to Monitor Students; 13. Sexual Harassment; 14. Danger Creation; 15. Duty and Standards of Care: Liability for Negligence; Section A: The Law of Torts and the Concept of Negligence; Section B: The Concept of Negligence and its Application to Duty and Standards of Care; Section C: The Concepts of Negligence, Duty, and Standards of Care and Their Application to Proper Instruction, Proper Supervision, Proper Maintenance, Field Trips, Post-Injury Treatment, Athletic Liability, and Spectator Safety; Index;
• Edition: Third edition
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks : Corwin
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (432 pages)
• Subjects: 344.73/07; Educational law and legislation -- United States -- Popular works; School management and organization -- United States -- Popular works
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483333342; 1483333345
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.