Introduction
Chapter 1: Liability for Student Injuries: Protecting Your
Teachers, Your Students, and Your School
Chapter 2: Student Freedom of Expression
Chapter 3: Special Education
Chapter 4: Discipline: Student Due Process and Search and
Seizure
Chapter 5: Student Harassment and Bullying
Chapter 6: Teacher Freedom of Expression
Chapter 7: Teacher Out-Of-School Conduct
Chapter 8: Religion
Chapter 9: Student Records: The Family Educational Rights and
Privacy Act
Chapter 10: Abuse and Neglect
Conclusion: Teaching and Practicing Preventative Law
Appendix A: Conducting Legal Research
Appendix B: Constitutional and Judicial Sources of Education
Law
Appendix C: The Court System
Index
About the Authors
David Schimmel (J.D. Yale Law School) is Professor Emeritus at the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst and co-author of 8 books about
law and education including Teachers and the Law 9th Ed. (2015). He
is recipient of the Education Press Association of America’s
Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in Educational
Journalism and the Education Law Association’s McGhehey (lifetime
achievement) Award.
Suzanne Eckes, J.D., Ph.D. is a professor in the Educational
Leadership and Policy Studies Department at Indiana University. Dr.
Eckes has published over 100 school-law articles and book chapters,
is a co-editor of the Principal’s Legal Handbook, Contemporary
Legal Issues in Higher Education, and School Discipline and Safety,
and is a co-author of the school law books Legal Rights of Teachers
and Students and Public School Law.
Matthew Militello (Ph.D. Michigan State University) is the Wells
Fargo Distinguished Professor in Educational Leadership at East
Carolina University and co-author of five books and more then 60
articles. Prior to his academic career, Matt was a middle and high
school teacher and principal in the state of Michigan.
This is a must-have resource for school administrators! Every
year, reviewing the school laws applicable to the classroom for
teachers protects them from unnecessary interruptions and enables
them to do what is best for students. This text makes it
accessible and has great activities to generate professional
conversations in any school
*Elizabeth Walters, principal, Beech Grove High School*
I have used the lesson plans in this book with my entire teaching
staff, and they have been incredibly effective. It is amazing
how confident, secure, and empowered teachers feel when they know
they are on the right side of the law!
*Matthew Kaiser, principal, Northview Middle School*
Principals Avoiding Lawsuits offers educational administrators
an eminently useable and practical handbook that should be in
bookcases in every principal and superintendent's office in the
United States.
*Paul Swanson, Principal, Thomas Jefferson Elementary School (Falls
Church, VA)*
Teachers appreciate quality professional development on complex
issues, and Principals Avoiding Lawsuits has been my go-to source
for framing discussions on school law. Through the book's relevant
cases and examples, my staff has been able to better understand how
topics like student freedom of expression or religion and schools
apply to their practice.
*Cory Irwin, assistant principal, Central Middle School*
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