School Law for Teachers: Concepts and Applications

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.