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| What Article of the NV Constitution deals with education? |
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| What Article of the NV Constitution deals with education? |
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| Who must approve all textbooks? |
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| Who issues all teacher licenses? Who determines the requirements? |
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Superintendent of Instruction
Commission on Prof. Standards in Ed |
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| Which one of the school districts is the oddball? Why? |
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| Carson City - only one not patterned on school district boundaries |
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| What does the NV Open Meeting Law require? |
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| All meetings except student disciplinary meetings and union meetings. |
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| When can the state okay Charter Schools? |
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| SPED only or when denied by the state |
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| Title IX of the Education Amendments of '74 |
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| Prohibits sex discrimination |
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| Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of '64 |
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| Protects employees against sexual discrimination |
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Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth
Perry v. Sindermann |
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| Gives tenure to post-probationary teachers |
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| Hortonville Joint School District v. Hortonville Educ. Assoc. |
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| Upheld dismissal of striking teachers employed in a state in which such strikes are prohibited |
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| Teachers enjoy a limited 1st amendment right to express opinions criticizing the actions of school admin. |
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Quid pro quo
Non quid pro quo |
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Something for something
Actions or verbal messages creating an offensive, hostile, or intimidating work environment |
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| Meritor Standard for sexual harrassment |
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| Must be considered harrassment by a normal, reasonable person and be experienced as such |
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| makes a connection between racial and gender barriers |
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| Established that monetary damages could be recovered when schools were indifferent to sexual harrassment. Previous punishment was limited to withholding of fed. funds |
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| 1994 - established that abusive work enviornment no longer requires evidence of serious psychological damage |
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| Gebser v. Lago Vista Independent SD |
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| Held that under Title IX damages could only be collected if the student had notified a school official of the harrassment |
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| Davis v. Monroe Co. Bd of Ed (1999) |
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| Established monetary damages for peer harassment if school is indifferent |
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1. Duty of care must be established
2. Defendant must have broken their duty
3. Plaintiff must have been injured
4. Break of duty must cause injury |
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| Name 3 defenses against Negligence |
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1. Assumption of Risk
2. Contributory Negligence
3. Immunity |
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| School Liability Release Forms |
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| Galileo High School - Educational Malpractice |
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| Established the right of students in public schools to freedom of expression and retention of rights within the classroom |
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| Matthew gave an indecent campaign speech and sued when the school suspended him. Followed the F.C.C. v. Pacific Foundation formula for obscenity and upheld the suspension, partially because the audience included children and was captive. |
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| Controlling student press - allows administration to censor objectionable materials from a school newspaper |
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| What are the expectations for student conduct off-property while participating in a school-sponsored event? |
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| Schools may require students to behave the same as they would if the event were to held on school grounds. |
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| determined students have sufficient property and liberty interests to receive due process. short-term suspensions (1-3 days) require only an informal hearing. immediate suspension is appropriate when there is a danger to persons or things. |
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| What is the board review "safety net" for K-6 students. |
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| The board of a trustees of a school must have a review/hearing before suspending them for more than a semester. |
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| Supreme Court established the prevailing precedent regarding school searches and seizures |
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| Vernonia School District v. Acton |
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| random drug testing for students participating in school athletics. Bd. of Educ. v. Earls - no need for a pervasive drug testing |
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| W. Virginia Bd or Educ. v. Barnette |
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| school policies insisting mandatory participation in school flag salute exercises have been repeatedly rejected |
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| Allows corporal punishment but 1993 Nevada Law formally ended the practice |
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| The Church of the Holy Trinity v. The U.S. |
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| non-establishment clause of the 1st amendment but this ruling assumed Judeo-Christian dominance as did People v. Stanley |
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| Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1925) |
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| Affirmed Oregon's right to have a public school system and compel attendance but also created a space for private schools |
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| Evoked Thomas Jefferson's "wall of separation" and a strong separation of church and state |
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| Challenged state-sponsored Bible reading |
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| Used as a "test" for church/state separation. Outlawed government involvement in activities that do not have a secular purpose, advance or inhibit religion, and fostered an excessive government entanglement with religion |
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| Can provide public funds for a religious-oriented teen sexuality program |
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| Ruled that school-sponsored benedictions or invocations at public school graduation ceremonies violate the 1st amendment |
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| Religious activities may be held in public facilities |
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| Ruled that students may receive special education services at private schools but that the parents must follow certain guidelines |
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| Court ruled that there was no reason for a law requiring creationism but left larger question about equal time for creationism unanswered |
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| Allowed religious clubs to operate at schools in which already allowed extracurricular activities |
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| Challenged the Impression Series because it included questions on witches - introduced the idea that the interpretation being put forth of a textbook must be reasonable |
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| What cases laid the foundation for our current sped law in the 1970s? |
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| Mills v. Board of Ed. of D.C. and PARC v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
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| What law provides students with a free and appropriate education? |
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| Schools must provide students with a door opportunity but do not need to educate students to reach their full potential |
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| What were the early rationales behind the idea of Least Restrictive Environment? |
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| Early cases such as Daniel R.R. V. State Bd. of Ed. focused on social benefits while later cases focused on academic benefits for disabled child |
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| What is the Holland Test? |
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4 Parts:
1. Non-academic or social benefits to the disabled child
2. Educ. Benefits available in a regular class with supplemental benefits
3. Negative effect on the classroom teacher and the other students
4. Costs of supplementary aids and services necessary |
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