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The layoff provision protecting minority teachers from layoffs is unconstitutional. U.S. Const. amend. XIV. Wygant v. Jackson Board of Education, 476 U.S. 267 (1986), was a case before the United States Supreme Court. It is the seminal case for the "strong-basis-in-evidence standard" for affirmative action programs.
The Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 89–329) was legislation signed into United States law on November 8, 1965, as part of President Lyndon Johnson 's Great Society domestic agenda. Johnson chose Texas State University (then called " Southwest Texas State College "), his alma mater, as the signing ...
The Court of Appeals, ruled that students placing grades on the work of other students made such work into an "education record." Thus, peer-grading was determined as a violation of FERPA privacy policies because students had access to other students' academic performance without full consent. [ 11 ]
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday for a a deaf student who sued his public school system for providing an inadequate education. The case is significant for other disabled students who ...
September 29, 2005. The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that turn on questions of U.S. constitutional or federal law. It also has original jurisdiction over a narrow ...
In subsequent cases, the Court defined what constituted a policy or custom for purposes of Monell liability. In Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati, the Court held that a single decision made by municipal policy maker can establish policy sufficient for Monell liability. [22] In determining who is a municipal policy maker in City of St. Louis v.
Curriculum theory. Curriculum theory (CT) is an academic discipline devoted to examining and shaping educational curricula. There are many interpretations of CT, being as narrow as the dynamics of the learning process of one child in a classroom to the lifelong learning path an individual takes.
Title IX; Long title: An Act to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965, the Vocational Education Act of 1963, the General Education Provisions Act (creating a National Foundation for Postsecondary Education and a National Institute of Education), the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, Public Law 874, Eighty-first Congress, and related Acts, and for other purposes.