Lindke v. Freed (2024) Oral argument | U.S. Supreme Court | Public Officials' Use of Social Media

Bostock v. Clayton County (2020) Oral argument | U.S. Supreme Court

$10-million school negligence in supervision | This Week in Education Law #43

Retaliation for Exposing Racial Segregation | This Week in Education Law #42

Hostile Work Environment: Retaliation in Schools | This Week in Education Law #41

Carson v. Makin (2022) Oral argument | U.S. Supreme Court | Public Funding for Religious Schools?

Kennedy v. Bremerton School District (2022) Oral argument at the U.S. Supreme Court | School prayers

LGBTQ Storybooks and Parental Rights in Schools | This Week in Education Law #40

Teacher Fired Over Pronoun Use? Vlaming v. West Point School Board (2023) | This Week in Ed Law #39

Does Missing Information in a Teacher's Contract Void Its Validity? | This Week in Education Law #38

School District Retaliates Against Vocal Critic | This Week in Education Law #37

Educational Administrators as Principled Defense of Free Speech | The Boundaries of Protected Speech

How Did an Email Cost the School $200,000? | Defamation | This Week in Education Law #36

Can parents video record their child’s IEP meetings? | This Week in Education Law #35

Library Book Bans: Can School Boards Remove Books from School Libraries?

Student Backpack Searches & Fourth Amendment Rights | This Week in Education Law #34

Rating Library Books as Compelled Speech? The Legal Challenges of Texas' READER Act

Banning Mandatory Trainings: Viewpoint Speech Restriction? Florida's Individual Freedom Act

This Week in Education Law #31 | Can Education Officials Block Critics on Social Media?

This Week in Education Law #30 Fire Faculty Members for Their Behavior Off Campus?

This Week in Education Law #29 Workplace Retaliation | Kincaid v. Unified School District No. 500

Administrative Law for Educational Administrators: Governance, Policies, and Legal Challenges

FERPA: Educational Administrators' Responsibility to Protect Student Privacy

Qualified Immunity for Educational Administrators: Legal Protections or Accountability Barriers?

Guardians of Accountability: Fraud, Embezzlement, Breach of Fiduciary Duty & Negligence

Employment as Property Interest & Procedural Due process

What Counts as Insubordination: Workplace Authority and Limits

Employment Termination: At-will employment & Termination for Cause

Disability Discrimination in Employment

Title IX: Interscholastic Sports, Academic Programs & Sexual Harassment

Race Discrimination in Employment

Title IX and Transgender Students: Legal Cases on Policies of Pronouns, Bathroom, Sports

Negligence and Liability in Schools

Students' Free Speech Rights: Legal Principles

Educators' Free Speech Rights: Landmark Supreme Court Cases

Free Speech: Foundational Principles

3 Common Misconceptions of Free Speech

Student Free Speech on Social Media: Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L. & C1.G v. Siegfried

Navigating Race-Conscious and Race-Neutral Policies in Educational Administration

Robert's Rules of Order | Structure of Meetings

Robert's Rules of Order | Deliberative Assemblies: Types, Key Characteristics & Functions

7 Reasons Leaders Need to Learn Robert's Rules of Order

Who holds the authority to forgive student loan debt? Biden v. Nebraska et al. (2023)

Break Down the Supreme Court's Opinion on the Affirmative Action Case | SFFA v. Harvard (2023)

AI in Employment Selection Procedures & Title VII | Employment discrimination by AI?

Carson v. Makin (2022) Explained: Implications on Public Funding & Anti-discrimination

Personnel Records: Public Disclosure & Exemptions

Personal searches of students: Reasonable suspicion

How to Prove Discriminatory Intent in Hiring? | Direct Evidence & Indirect Evidence

Welcome to Education Law, Policy, and Governance (EPEL 7330)

What are four primary sources of law?

What is insubordination? When is insubordination justified for employees?

At-will employees & verbal job offer | Bounds v. Country Club Hills School District 160 et al.(2023)

Blowing the Whistle: A Case of Workplace Retaliation and Unlawful Termination

The Legal Battle Over State Takeover: Exploring the Complexities of State Intervention in Education

Do HR Managers Prefer Humans or Algorithms? The Shocking Truth Revealed

The High Cost of Age Discrimination: A CEO's Mistake and $460,000 Settlement

Constructive Knowledge in Employee-to-Student Sexual Harassment

Transgender bathroom policy in public schools: Adams v. School Board of St. Johns County (2022)

Can a teacher wear a MAGA hat? It depends on where and when. [This Week in Education Law # 20]

Divisive concepts and teachers' First Amendment rights in K-12 classrooms

Can school districts add COVID vaccine to the list of vaccines required to attend schools?

How did school administrators mess up the process of terminating a teacher’s contract?

Public school district admission policy change discriminated Asian American students?

Wrongful termination after reporting a co-worker's sexual abuse of students?

Administrators' Inaction: Negligent hiring, supervision, and retention?

Educators' pronoun use in classroom protected by the First Amendment? This Week in Education Law #14

School district's inappropriate allocation of state funds? Bates v. Poway Unified School Dist (2022)

Administrators' inaction: Decades of sexual abuse? Moxley v. The Ohio State University (2022)

San Bernardino school shooting: School negligence? Dangerous condition of public property?

What personnel information of public employees must be disclosed to the public?

Are schools liable for school shootings? This Week in Education Law: School Administrators' Guide #9

Suspend students for engaging in controversial speech? [This Week in Education Law #8]

Race and age discrimination in employee layoff and hiring? [This Week in Education Law #7]

Public employees have an absolute privilege to make defamatory statements?

Suspend teachers for speaking against the district's transgender policy at board meetings?

Cancel a job posting to avoid hiring your disfavored candidate? Adverse employment action?

Can school boards terminate personally directed, antagonistic statements at meetings? |Education Law

Can school administrators block critics on their personal social media accounts? | Education Law

Education Law: Can schools discipline students because of students’ off-campus speech on Snapchat?

What is defamation in education? Are school leaders' communication privileged? (Updated 2022)

IDEA principle 6: Procedural safeguards & parental rights

IDEA principle 5: Related services and supplemental aids

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) principle 4: Least restrictive environment

IDEA principle 3: Individualized educational program (IEP)

IDEA principle 2: Eligibility and evaluation

IDEA principle 1: Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA): Overview & 6 principles

Mask and vaccine mandates? Applying Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905) to COVID policies in schools

Is this policy constitutional? Strict scrutiny, intermediate scrutiny & rational basis review

Affirmative action in hiring, promotion and layoff. Extraordinary care with race-conscious policies.

Does your school district's media policy overly restrict your free speech?

Teachers' First Amendment rights: Speaking as private citizens & on matters of public concerns

School desegregation: A brief history of court decisions on school desegregation

Students' right to free speech: Frazer (1986). Can schools regulate indecent, vulgar, lewd speech?

Students' right to free speech: Tinker (1969). Can schools punish student athletes for kneeling?

Yoga & mindfulness programs in schools? Are they religious? Do they violate the First Amendment?

Religions in public schools? Why did Constitution framers favor a neutrality toward religions?

What is defamation? What are 4 factors of defamation? Are school leaders' communication privileged?

Tort liability in education. What are four negligence elements? What are four defenses?

What are legal challenges of critical race theory? What is critical race theory exactly?

Introduction to school law: U.S. Constitution, Civil Rights Act, state constitutions & sunshine laws

American education governance of K-12 schools. Every Student Succeeds Act. ESSA