EDLD 5340 Educational Law

Wed - April 27, 2005

Class notes 27 April 2005

2 more class projects: defamation and cell phone / technology issues, wrapping up Chapter 5, more on Equal Access Act / Mergens case

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Wed - April 20, 2005

Class Notes 20 April 2005

2 student group presentations, a bit more on Chapter 5: Religion

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Wed - April 13, 2005

Class Notes 13 April 2005

Student projects on search and seizure and dress codes, lots of current events, a little more on the religion chapters.

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Class Notes 6 April 2005

More on employee rights, a little bit into the religion chapter

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Wed - March 30, 2005

Class notes 30 March 2005

Lots on teachers' rights

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Thu - March 24, 2005

Class Project Wiki

The topic for our class group project (due April 27th) is "Student Cell Phone Use and Other Related Concerns." We are hopefully going to use a wiki successfully to collaborate on this.

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Wed - March 23, 2005

Class notes 23 March 2005

More review of the midterm, more on special education law and major cases.

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Wed - March 9, 2005

9 March 2005 Notes

Brief recap of midterm, more on Texas Family Code mandatory reporting stuff, a little on sexual harassment title 7 and 9, intro to special education law

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Wed - March 2, 2005

2 March 2005 Class Notes

More on search and seizure (TLO and Goss issues), Child Protection issues, lots of current events and info from Fred's recent conference he attended

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Wed - February 23, 2005

23 Feb 2004 Class Notes

Discussion of Academic Freedom cases and start discussion of search and seizure cases

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Wed - February 16, 2005

16 Feb 2004 Class Notes

Some review of torts / liability issues, immunity issues and exceptions, cases involving federal due process rights, residency requirements to attend school...

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9 Feb 2004 More on torts

Application of different tort / liability situations

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Wed - February 2, 2005

2 February 2005: liability and torts

Main focus on liability issues and torts

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Wed - January 26, 2005

26 January 2005: Horton and Aldridge cases

A little review of last week's assigned readings, more on Horton case and Aldridge case

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Wed - January 19, 2005

19 Jan 05: Overview of Legal System, Sources of Law

Chapters 1 and 2 (Alexander and Alexander), Chapter 1 (Kemerer and Walsh)