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Additional Resources for Legal and Education Advocates

CLE staff attempts to monitor generally legal developments related to students' and parents' rights. It shares what it learns with you through a number of brief commentaries. Currently available:

Racially Disparate School Discipline: An Outline of Case Law
Robert Pressman and Stephanie Ault, CLE, 12 pp. (1992). $4 single copy.
Abusive School Discipline and Other Offensive Conduct Against Students: A Summary of Decisions Concerning Substantive Due Process Claims
CLE, 6 pp. (1992). $4 single copy.

 

State Law Challenges to School Discipline: An Outline of Claims and Case Summaries
Robert Pressman, CLE, 116 pp., 3rd edition (1996). Updated with an expanded introduction. $20 single copy.

The outline serves as a checklist of grounds in state law for challenging a disciplinary action. Included are brief summaries of more than 200 cases from around the country. It discusses in detail the various types of state law claims that may be available.

 

Protecting Parents' Right to Privacy: The Significance of Consent and Confidentiality in the Provision of Early Intervention Services
Kathleen B. Boundy, CLE, 13 pp. (1991). $4 single copy.

This outlines key privacy and confidentiality issues of low-income parents whose infants and toddlers are entitled to receive early intervention services and the requirements in law.

 

Public School Residency Requirements for Students Living with Non-Parent, Non-Guardian Caretakers
Glen Renner, revised and updated by Julia Hyun, CLE, 19 pp. (1994). $7.50 single copy.

This is a legal memo which outlines decisional and statutory law governing the admission to public schools of children living on their own or with adults not their parents or legal guardians. It includes selected state statutory provisions giving residency status to such children.

 

Ability/Achievement Grouping: An Outline of the Law
Robert Pressman, CLE, 11 pp. (1992). $4 single copy.

This summarizes case law and outlines legal standards for challenging ability/achievement grouping under the Fourteenth Amendment, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1962 and state law.

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