Title:
The principal's quick-reference guide to school law : reducing liability, litigation, and other potential legal tangles
Author:
Hachiya, Robert (Robert F.), author.
ISBN:
9781483333335
Personal Author:
Edition:
Third edition.
Physical Description:
xx, 411 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents:
Preventative law: developing risk and crisis management programs -- The school and the legal environment -- Constitutional and statutory foundations of staff selection, contracting, and evaluation -- Teachers' rights -- Students' rights -- Student discipline -- The principal's role in special education services -- Academic issues and students records -- Copyright law -- Search and seizure -- Program management -- Students' use of technology and social media and other emerging cyber issues -- Sexual harassment -- State-created danger and deliberate indifference -- The principal's tort liability for negligence as applied to expected duty and standards of care.
Abstract:
Presents information that shows principals how to: address student use and misuse of technology, on and off campus; avoid the pitfalls of zero-tolerance discipline policies; and lead school safety and violence prevention, including collaboration with school resource officers and other personnel.