This textbook provides a comprehensive view of the law that governs the state school systems of the United States. It presents and discusses specific legal cases concerned with the multitude of issues facing the public school system-including teaching diverse student populations, teacher rights, and the role of the Federal government. There are over 1300 citations and excerpts of school law cases.

American Public School Law

Kern, Alexander

Law Practice

West Group

M. David Alexander

Cengage Learning'

The administration of public schools encompasses myriad generic issues having to do with curriculum content, instructional methodology, human resource and financial management, and of course, the guidance and counseling of students. Woven into this tapestry is the obligation to individualize educational programs to accommodate the needs of a wide and diverse student population. The needs of children may be categorized by economic, social, ethnic, physical and mental differences unique to each child and family. It is incumbent upon the public school to accommodate these differences with specially designed educational programs and to remediate any effects that may be detrimental to learning. Prominent and unique among such programs is special education, for which the program of learning is usually separately funded at both federal and state levels, but even more importantly, the learning regimen is individually calibrated to address the needs of each child determined to have a disability. Indeed, assuring children with disabilities their statutory rights constitutes a substantial segment of public school administration in the United States today. The various ramifications of the educational needs of children with disabilities and their attendant circumstances are so extensive that one book on the subject cannot be sufficient to address the magnitude and broad scope of the field. However, in this book we have attempted to discuss several of the salient issues that are of prominent concern to both school administrators and teachers. The book proceeds from the broad consideration of rights and costs to more specific issues regarding the categorization of children and the disproportionality of the various racial and ethnic groups of children who may be improperly designated as disabled. Within the context of such classifications the book discusses the screening strategies on which the rights of children with disabilities are so delicately balanced. To inappropriately classify a child may result in a form of subtle discrimination or denial of a statutory right to the provision of a particular type of educational instruction or accommodation. As is indicated throughout this book, the assessment methods by which a child's free appropriate education is determined have become a science of considerable importance. Incident to this necessity of precise assessment is the need for risk screening strategies and protocols to identify symptoms, behaviors and indications of learning disabilities requiring particular and specialized educational redress. Among issues of greatest importance is the determination not to exclude children with disabilities from the regular classroom and the mainstream of learning. Inclusion or mainstreaming is among the most contentious and perplexing issues confronting school administrators. What constitutes the legal requirements and the educational considerations of the least-restrictive environment comes directly into play in provision of an appropriate education. Beyond the all-important inclusion issue, other chapters of this book address problems of cultural and social mores that affect children with disabilities, symptoms of depression in parents of children with disabilities, maltreatment of children with disabilities, and symptoms of children who have suffered post-traumatic stress from catastrophic events in their own lives. Each chapter suggests measures to be taken by educators in identifying and redressing such matters. Policy implications for the enhancement of the effectiveness of special education programs are identified for the school administrator to consider.

Administering Special Education: In Pursuit of Dignity and Autonomy (Advances in Educational Administration, 7)

Science & Math

History & Philosophy

Emerald Publishing Limited

This book concerns the rationale for efficient investment of public financial resources in public schools and the equitable deployment of those resources. It is a collection of the writings of scholars who have turned their attention to these issues and have published thoughtful articles in the Journal of Education Finance and its predecessor organization, The National Educational Finance Project. The Journal of Education Finance has been published for 33 years and over that long period has been the source of many outstanding articles of which the chapters in this book are representative. The 19 chapters were chosen because they combine to present a comprehensive view of perspectives on the questions regarding the economic efficiency of investment in education and the redress of difficulties in the fair deployment of public monies among the many local education agencies in the United States. Important to the book is the idea that the public school is in an essential and pivotal position for the social mobility of the people from one generation to the next. Efficient and adequate public funding of well-regulated institutions of public instruction is, along with progressive taxation, public health, and certain other social transfer mechanisms, the primary means that government has at its disposal to redress the market forces that create and perpetuate great disparities in the wealth and income among the people. The public school, in particular, as a social institution, carries a huge burden in interrupting the cycle of poverty that is perpetuated by the market forces of the economic system. The downward draft of the cycle of poverty that is woven into the fabric of social and economic conditions by the rush of private and corporate self-interests places on the public schools a daunting responsibility. Unfortunately, as certain statistics in this book indicate, disparities in wealth and income in the United States continue to increase, and the state and federal government s tepid fiscal commitments to public schools, along with their unenthusiastic support of other social transfers, compared to other developed countries, has not served to abate the separation of economic classes and the building up of an underclass in the United States. As this book indicates, the economic rationale is well enunciated that supports increasing investment in education and the adequate funding of public schools. The various chapters are presented in a progression from the broad justification for overall investment to the actual measures that should be undertaken by state governments to provide adequate and just deployment of public funds among schools. The chapters are arranged into two parts. Part I sets forth the arguments concerning the idea that education is a productive investment in the knowledge of the people and serves as a catalyst, indeed the condition precedent, for economic growth and viability of any nation. Part II deals more directly with the reasoning supporting the importance of adequate funding of public schools and the equitable distribution of funds among school districts in the 50 states.

Education and Economic Growth: Investment and Distribution of Financial Resources

Business & Money

Industries

Linton Atlantic Books, Ltd.

In the brutally competitive world of imaginary news, one fictitious newspaper dares to be so bleeding-edge, so provocative, and so underground that no one has even heard of it until now:The Picayune Intelligencer. Drawing from flash fiction, The Onion styled satire, and the imaginatively warped worldview of The Far Side, The Picayune Intelligencer collects over thirty hard hitting stories tackling such pressing issues as manspreading, amateur art criticism, the marital problems of superheroes, and many more. Alexander Kern’s short fiction debut is a humorous foray into the endearing absurdities of human nature, illustrating that sometimes the most outlandish news tells the most realistic truths.

The Picayune Intelligencer: Collected Articles 1962 - 2015

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Reel Ten Press

Principles of Banking Regulation

Cambridge University Press

Financing Public Schools

Richard G. Salmon

F. King Alexander

Taylor&Francis

Higher Education Law

Klinton Alexander

Cenage Learning

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