This course explores some of the challenging legal and practical issues confronting education in America, including the uncertain boundaries between public and private education, the constitutional and statutory rights of students, including equal access and treatment, the increasingly fluid constitutional and statutory rights of teachers, and the structure of educational governance, including the role of the federal government, local control, school board powers and even strategic planning.
Prerequisite: LAW 665, 667 & 668
Prerequisite: LAW 665, 667 & 668