Employees [microform] / Gail Paulus Sorenson
- Bib ID:
- 5488986
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Sorenson, Gail Paulus
- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1987
- 45 p.
- Summary:
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This chapter analyzes more than 200 cases reported in 1986 involving public-sector employees in elementary and secondary education. Also included, where appropriate, are relevant 1986 Supreme Court cases from outside the field of education, as well as leading cases from prior years. Legal issues covered by the review include the following: (1) discrimination in employment by race, religion, sex, national origin, age, or handicap; (2) substantive constitutional rights, including freedom of speech, association, and religion, along with issues of privacy and substantive due process; (3) procedural due process; (4) issues of dismissal, nonrenewal, demotion, and discipline (for insubordination, unprofessional conduct, immorality, or incompetence); (5) reduction in force and involuntary leaves of absence; (6) contractual disputes; (7) tenure; (8) and certification, decertification, revocation, and suspension. (TE)
- Notes:
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- ERIC Note: In: Thomas, Stephen, B., Ed. The Yearbook of School Law, 1987. National Organization on Legal Problems of Education, 1987 (EA 019 899).
- Policymakers.
- Practitioners.
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- Age Discrimination
- Civil Rights
- Collective Bargaining
- Compliance (Legal)
- Contracts
- Court Litigation
- Due Process
- Educational Legislation
- Elementary Secondary Education
- Employer Employee Relationship
- Equal Protection
- Ethnic Discrimination
- Freedom of Speech
- Legal Problems
- Legal Responsibility
- Reduction in Force
- School Law
- School Responsibility
- Sex Discrimination
- Teacher Certification
- Teacher Discipline
- Teacher Dismissal
- Teacher Rights
- Tenure
- Supreme Court
- Available From:
- ERIC
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1987
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