This yearbook describes current issues affecting education law. Its 12 chapters, each written by a specialist, cover a large variety of educational legislation. Chapter 1 focuses on employees, discrimination, constitutional rights, due process, dismissal, demotion, discipline, reduction-in-force and involuntary leaves of absence, contract disputes, tenure, and certification. The second chapter examines school governance and highlights issues in state funding; special schools and school districts, such as charter schools; powers of school-district boards; financial affairs; employment affairs; contracts; facilities; transportation; tort liability; and claims and suits against the school district. The next chapter discusses pupils and those laws relating to public school attendance, private and parochial students, sanctions for student misconduct, and desegregation. Chapter 4 looks at bargaining, constitutional issues, statutory issues, recognition and representational issues, scope of bargaining, grievability and arbitratility, and judicial review of arbitration awards. The fifth chapter concentrates on students with disabilities, entitlement to services, dispute resolution, and placement, whereas chapter 6 explains torts and related issues. Legal issues in sports and higher education, as affected by federal and state legislation, are detailed in the next four chapters. The last two chapters examine education-related concerns and international law. An appendix features a table of cases and other information. (Contains an index.) (RJM)

This well-established and widely-respected "Yearbook," now in its 10th volume, is a primary source of information on significant and topical legal issues relating to the Palestinian territories. It provides, in a single annual volume, not only leading articles on topics of major interest to the international legal community, but also key legislation, court decisions, legal cases, treaties, resolutions, special reports, and other relevant legal material translated from the original Arabic or Hebrew into English. The 10th volume of the "Palestine Yearbook of International Law" contains the following features: - leading articles on the legal issues relating to Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories, and on the peaceful settlement of disputes in Africa and its relevance to the Palestinian/Israeli peace process, - law reports, including important judicial decisions, legislation and court records, - a record of significant human rights reports, including UN Resolutions and the European Union's Statement on the Peace Process, - special reports on the Wye River Memorandum and on the Covenant of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, - a selection of recent book reviews, - a detailed bibliography of books, monographs and articles, - a comprehensive index. This new volume, as with its predecessors, will be an invaluable source of reference and record on the complex legal issues relating to the Palestinian territories, and will be of prime interest to legal practitioners, researchers, scholars and anyone involved in law, politics, human rights or international relations who has an interest in this region.

The ultimate resource for success in special education—newly updated! If you’d wanted to be a lawyer, you would have gone to law school. How could you have predicted you’d need legal knowledge after all? Here is your essential guide. Osborne and Russo, past presidents of the Educational Law Association, are experts in translating legalese into a language educators can understand. Updated to reflect significant court decisions and new legal developments, this is your road map to meeting today’s special education requirements. The latest edition features Extensive coverage of IDEA’s reauthorization, Section 504 and the ADA, and FAPE and LRE New analysis of parent and student rights Guidance on discipline A preventative approach to special education litigation Focus on federal and state interpretations of the law Designed for educators, this practical resource allows you to focus on your core competency: providing excellent education for students with special needs. "Some books are carefully placed on bookshelves and easily forgotten, while others sit on desks with their spines cracked and well worn from use. My copy of Osborne′s and Russo′s Third Edition of Special Education and the Law will soon be dog eared, highlighted in yellow, its margins scribbled with notes. Read it and you will use it." —Todd A. DeMitchell, Professor University of New Hampshire "Every administrator should have this in their professional library to guide them in making appropriate decisions in scheduling and meeting students’ needs." —Dr. Elizabeth Alvarez, Principal Chicago Public Schools

This 2001 edition of Education at a Glance - OECD Indicators provides information on the human and financial resources invested in education, on how education and learning systems operate and evolve, and on the returns to educational investments.