Current Issues in Education Policy and the Law

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Pub. Date: 2008-02-28
Publisher(s): Textstream
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Table of Contents

Introduction
No Child Left Behind
Tipping the Balance: Examining the Federal-State Relationship Through No Child Left Behind and the Future of Public Education Governancep. 3
Evaluating a Fundamental Right to Education and No Child Left Behindp. 25
School Finance and Adequacy
Funding Public Schools: Striving for Substantive Adequacyp. 45
Financing America's Schools: What It Said and Why It's So Important Todayp. 67
School Choice
Ineffective Decision Making and Educational Opportunityp. 99
Child in the Middle: Self-Determination and the Parent-State Battle for Educational Controlp. 121
Charter School Liabilityp. 135
Reframing Equal Educational Opportunity Today
Getting Back to Where We Started From; The Failure of Proxy-Based Policies and a Possible Return to Plessyp. 153
Ending the DREAM of Plyler v. Doe: Examining Democratic Participation and Educational Opportunity Through the Language of Plylerp. 173
Student and Teacher Rights in Schools
Zero Tolerance Polices: A Precarious Balance Between School Safety and Educational Opportunity for Allp. 191
Seeking a State of Balance in Teachers' Freedom of Speech: Analyzing the Teacher Speech Tightrope and the Erratic Legal Windsp. 219
Straddling the Wall: What's Gained and Lost in the Supreme Court's Willingness to Allow More Fraternization Between Church and State?p. 241
Definitions and Explanations of Key Termsp. 269
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