Education Law

Friday Snippets: 12/19/08 - Can I Get a Vacation?

This is scary for Colorado's higher ed. institutions. Not likely, but scary.

Air quality standards for Indiana's schools? No more building by interstates I guess.

Super interesting case at the N.C. State Supreme Court over whether students are entitled to a summer vacation or whether the district can unilaterally assign them to year-round school.

The Missouri law that resulted from the Drew cyberbullying case is being used quite a bit already.

The Georgia Bible Class law is not really being used much.

Why teacher's unions get a bad name.

Judge rules that Montana's legislature made a good faith attempt to fix their funding issues.

Around the Blogosphere:

Religion Clause has an interestingly defiant football coach in Texas that insists on praying.

Karl Romberger has a variety of Pennsylvania goodies this week. As does Pam Parker for Texas.

Wrightslaw examines the meaning of "day" for special ed. purposes.

Kevin Riley at Leadertalk reflects on how bullies invaded his school.

NASSP has some new legislation introduced by Sen. Clinton that could help school leaders.

For your Friday Fun:

Now this was a good use of time. I like it when people take pride in our founding documents.

(HD) A More Perfect Union from Andrew Sloat on Vimeo.

Full post as published by Edjurist on December 19, 2008 (boomark / email).