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Pickering v. Board of Education, 391 U.S. 563 (1968), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that in the absence of proof of the teacher knowingly or recklessly making false statements the teacher had a right to speak on issues of public importance without being dismissed from their position. [1]
Dean v. Utica Community Schools, 345 F. Supp. 2d 799 (E.D. Mich. 2004), is a landmark legal case in United States constitutional law, namely on how the First Amendment applies to censorship in a public school environment. The case expanded on the ruling definitions of the Supreme Court case Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier, in which a ...
Teacher burnout begins to affect not only the teacher, but their students as well. Teachers cannot support their students academic, social, and emotional needs completely if they are feeling the effects of burnout. It is not the teacher's responsibility to solely teach, but also to provide motivation and support student wellbeing.
School systems will need to solve more than just a lack of planning time to combat teacher burnout. Teachers also face large classroom sizes, low pay relative to the cost of living, clashes with ...
In the 1977 case Abood v.Detroit Board of Education, the Supreme Court upheld the maintaining of a union shop in a public workplace. Public school teachers in Detroit had sought to overturn the requirement that they pay fees equivalent to union dues on the grounds that they opposed public sector collective bargaining and objected to the ideological activities of the union.
The school board of Piscataway, New Jersey needed to eliminate a teaching position from the high school's Business Education department. Under New Jersey state law, tenured teachers have to be laid off in reverse order of seniority. However, the board faced a problem, as the district's least senior tenured teachers, Sharon Taxman (a white ...
For example, of 1,291 public school teachers, roughly 75% Texas teachers said they had considered quitting their jobs due to a lack of respect and support, according to a study released by the ...
The July 2020 ruling on that case relied on Hosanna-Tabor to rule in favor of the schools against the teachers. [4] The Obama Administration's case was argued by Leondra Kruger, who at the time worked under Solicitor General Donald Verrilli. In 2022, as a candidate for the Supreme Court, this led to questions about her views on freedom of religion.