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Rulings of Famous Court Cases That Shaped U.S. Education

Rulings of Famous Court Cases That Shaped U.S. Education. By: Emma Stanley. 1. Brown vs. Board of Education. Pertains to/Ruling:. Desegregation/1954 Struck down the “separate-but-equal” doctrine. 2. San Antonio Indep. School District vs. Rodriguez. Pertains to/Ruling:.

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Rulings of Famous Court Cases That Shaped U.S. Education

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  1. Rulings of Famous Court Cases That Shaped U.S. Education By: Emma Stanley

  2. 1. Brown vs. Board of Education Pertains to/Ruling: • Desegregation/1954 • Struck down the “separate-but-equal” doctrine.

  3. 2. San Antonio Indep. School District vs. Rodriguez Pertains to/Ruling: • Per pupil expenses/1973 • Allows any kind of finance system to fund schools, as long as it provides a minimum education for each student.

  4. 3. Lau vs. Nichols Pertains to/Ruling: • Students with limited English proficiency/1974 • School districts must take steps to fix the language deficiency.

  5. 4. Board of Education vs. Rowley Pertains to/Ruling: • Special education/1952 • A student’s IEP should provide educational benefit in accordance with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

  6. 5. School Board vs. Arline Pertains to/Ruling: • Accommodating disabilities/1987 • Teachers and students should be accommodated reasonably if they have a disability.

  7. 6. West Virginia State Board of Education vs. Barnette Pertains to/Ruling: • Freedom of expression/1943 • Public school officials can not force students to salute the flag. This also applies to teachers.

  8. 7. Tinker vs. Des Moines Indep. Community School District Pertains to/Ruling: • Student speech/1969 • Constitutional right is to be able to have freedom of speech, even symbolically.

  9. 8. Hazelwood School District vs. Kuhlmeier Pertains to/Ruling: • Censorship/1988 • Said that school newspapers, etc. could be censored by the school.

  10. 9. Mt. Healthy City School District vs. Doyle Pertains to/Ruling: • Teacher’s speech/1977 • Teachers have the freedom of speech, but should think logically about their expressions.

  11. 10. Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District No. 26 vs. Pico Pertains to/Ruling: • School libraries/1982 • School must have a rational reason to remove books from the school library.

  12. 11. Goss vs. Lopez Pertains to/Ruling: • Student suspensions/1975 • Guarantees the law of due process.

  13. 12. Ingraham vs. Wright Pertains to/Ruling: • Corporal punishment/1977 • Protects students from cruel and unusual punishment.

  14. 13. New Jersey vs. T.L.O Pertains to/Ruling: • Searches of students/1985 • Can search students noninvasively if they have “reasonable suspicion”; they don’t have to have “probable cause”.

  15. 14. Vernonia School District 47J vs. Acton Pertains to/Ruling: • Random drug tests/1995 • Ruled that mass drug testing of students in extracurricular activities was constitutional; However, since then, lower courts usually deem it unconstitutional.

  16. 15. Franklin vs. GCPS Pertains to/Ruling: • Sexual harassment/1992 • Allows victims of sexual harassment in schools to sue for money damages.

  17. 16. Honig vs. Doe Pertains to/Ruling: • Disruptive students in special ed/1988 • Discussed if it was reasonable to expel a special ed student for more than 10 days at a time; U.S Dept. of Ed. said that this was a change in the student’s IEP, and so other methods of discipline are used.

  18. 17. Lemon vs. Kurtzman Pertains to/Ruling: • Government aid to religious schools/1971 • Said that it broke the establishment clause of the first amendment to give government salary supplements to parochial schools.

  19. 18. Lee vs. Weisman Pertains to/Ruling: • Prayer at school events/1992 • Prayer led by teachers at school violates the establishment clause of the first amendment.

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