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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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