School Law Bulletin Series
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Author | Date | Description | Download |
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| 2005/01 | School Board Hiring: Legal Considerations | Robert P. Joyce | 2005 |
North Carolina boards of education, in their capacity as employers, have great latitude in deciding how to recruit employees and fill vacancies. |
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| 2005/06 | School Budget Mediation: Three Cases from 2004 | Stephanie Coplin, John B. Stephens | 2005 |
In 2004 three boards of county commissioners and their respective boards of education went to mediation to address disputes over the county’s funding of public schools. |
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| 2003/12 | School Cyberlaw Part I: Cyberspeech: First Amendment and Defamation | David R. Hostetler | 2003 |
That technology confronts us with great opportunities and equally great challenges is just as true in public education as it is in other fields.While electronic technology rapidly pervades public s |
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| 2004/01 | School Cyberlaw Part II: Cybersafety: Child Protection, Privacy, and Confidentiality | David R. Hostetler | 2004 |
One of the curses that accompany the blessings technology brings to our public schools is students’ vulnerability to misguided, self-serving, and sometimes predatory users of computer technology. |
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| 2004/05 | School Cyberlaw Part III: Cybersystems: School Operations and Other General Issues | David R. Hostetler | 2004 |
In theory, the technology that now automates many adminis- trative tasks allows schools to operate more efficiently and, as a result, improve students’ education. |
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| 1998/03 | School Funding Disputes: Development of the Law | C. Thomas Powell | 1998 |
This article looks at the development of school budget dispute laws overtime. |
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| 1998/02 | School Funding Disputes: Mediate, Don't Litigate | John B. Stephens, Matthew J. Michel | 1998 |
This article looks at mediating school budget disputes. |
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| 2003/03 | School Law Bulletin Index, Vols. 1 - 34, 1970 - 2003 | 2003 |
School Law Bulletin Cumulative index for Vols. 1-34, 1970-2003. |
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| 2001/08 | School Personnel Records Law | Robert P. Joyce | 2001 |
North Carolina’s public records law applies fully to the state’s public school systems. |
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| 2006/10 | Selling the Name on the Schoolhouse Gate: The First Amendment and the Sale of Public School Naming Rights | Joseph Blocher | 2006 |
In the past five years, the sale of naming rights to public school events and facilities has grown from fodder for humor columnists into a nationwide, multimillion-dollar enterprise. |
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| 2001/12 | Special Provisions for Computerized Criminal History Checks | Robert P. Joyce | 2001 |
MOST EMPLOYERS do not have the power to request criminal history checks on applicants and employees from the computerized records of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the State Bureau o |
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| 2006/02 | State and Local Government Relations in Elementary and Secondary Education | Laurie L. Mesibov | 2006 |
Education, one of government’s most important responsibilities, is both the foundation for a viable democratic society and a service the state is obligated to foster and protect. |
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| 1999/03 | Statutory Changes Related to Higher Education | Robert P. Joyce | 1999 |
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN 1998 enacted no sweeping changes in statutes affecting the sixteen constituent institutions that make up The University of North Carolina (UNC) or the state’s community coll |
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| 2012/02 | Sticks, Stones, and Cyberspace: On Cyberbullying and the Limits of Student Speech | Matthew M. Pagett | 2012 |
It is important to understand what cyberbullying is, the circumstances under which it occurs, what laws—if any—exist on the subject, and how courts have traditionally dealt with student speech, bot |
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| 2002/01 | Student Display of Confederate Symbols in Public School | Suzanne Blum Alford | 2002 |
Whether it is being removed from atop the South Carolina capitol or remaining a part of the state flag by the vote of Mississippi residents, the Confederate flag continues to be a controversial sym |
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| 2000/04 | Student Suicides and School System Liability | Cindy Singer Cafaro | 2000 |
Following is a detailed discussion of both of the relevant theories of liability, negligence, and due pro- cess, and the reception of each in various jurisdictions in cases involving student suicid |
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| 2002/04 | Student Threats and the First Amendment | Anne Dunton Lam | 2002 |
This paper explores the current state of the law with respect to students’ rights to free speech in the wake of school violence. |
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| 2005/03 | Students as Research Subjects: The Privacy Rights of Students and Their Families | Robyn Rone | 2005 |
From time to time, third parties contact local education agencies (LEAs) seeking to conduct research using students or their education records. |
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| 1999/09 | Subpoenas and School Records: A School Employee’s Guide | John Rubin | 1999 |
Public schools, like most public entities, accumulate a lot of personal information about the people they serve and employ. |
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| 2003/05 | The Ability of Local Governing Boards to Discipline Their Members | Suzanne Blum Alford | 2003 |
Local governing boards (city councils, county boards of commissioners, and local boards of education) occasionally have to cope with a troublesome member. |
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| 2006/03 | The Changing Landscape of Single-Sex Education | John D. Hurst | 2006 |
Single-sex education is receiving renewed attention around the country. |
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| 2005/10 | The Education Lottery | 2005 |
In mid-August of 2005 the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives, working into the wee hours of the morning, reached agreement on the state budget—an event generally indicative of impending adjournm |
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| 2003/02 | The Effective Use of School Resource Officers: The Constitutionality of School Searches and Interrogations | Christopher Z. Campbell | 2003 |
During the past several years, school resource officers (SROs) have been welcomed to many public school campuses. |
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| 2001/01 | The Emerging Law of Race and Student Assignment Plans | John Charles Boger, Elizabeth Jean Bower | 2001 |
The article then reviews the basics of another body of law on the Equal Protection Clause that has emerged in response to the debate over affirmative action in government contracting, public employ |
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| 1998/06 | The North Carolina State Board of Education: Its Constitutional Authority and Rule-Making Procedures | 1998 |
The State Board of Education (hereinafter the State Board or the board) is the only state agency that derives its powers directly from the North Carolina Constitution. |
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| 2000/03 | The School Board Chair: “Meeting” Expectations | Susan Leigh Flinspach, Jason Bradley Kay | 2000 |
The article comprises three main sections. The first section presents a statistical picture of school board chairpersons in North Carolina from the 1999 survey data. |
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| 1999/14 | The Uncertain Constitutionality of Prayers that Open School Board Meetings | Chad Ford | 1999 |
IS IT A VIOLATION of the United States Constitution for a North Carolina school board to open its meetings with a prayer? |
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| 2010/02 | When "Practicable" and "Feasible" May Mean "Mandatory": The Rights of Limited English Proficient Parents | Wade S. Kolb III | 2010 |
This bulletin surveys the key federal and North Carolina laws that affect the rights of Limited English Proficiency parents. |
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