Product Description

Containing over 20% new content and two additional chapters, this updated casebook addresses legal and public policy issues and controversies affecting K-12 as well as higher education. In addition to fundamental caselaw, the book includes fifty-nine original hypotheticals, extensive material on technology-related issues, recent developments in First Amendment law, guidance from the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education, and a strong focus on equal access to quality education. Topical coverage includes campus safety and the criminal justice system, the rights of educators, bilingual education, disability rights law, race-conscious remedies, religion in the schools, LGBT-related controversies, gender equity, and expanded coverage of privacy law issues, the school-to-prison pipeline, cyber-bullying, the impact of Race to the Top and ESEA flexibility, the ongoing battle over K-12 teacher tenure rights, and the implications of the burgeoning charter school movement.

Included in the book is a link to a Web page that the authors have created which provides current updates regarding the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and the replacement of the No Child Left Behind Act with the Every Student Succeeds Act. This Web page may be accessed at http://www.colorado.edu/education/ESEA-update.