R&L Education
Pages: 264
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Trim: 8¾ x 11
978-0-8108-4207-6 • Paperback • March 2002 • $110.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-4617-3163-4 • eBook • March 2002 • $104.50 • (£81.00)
Robert H. Palestini is the Dean of Graduate and Continuing Studies at Saint Joseph's University. He has served as the Superintendent of Schools for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, and has hosted such dignitaries as former U.S. President Gerald Ford and Pope John Paul II to Philadelphia. He has been involved with education since first teaching high school over three decades ago.
Karen Palestini Falk, Dr. Palestini's daughter, is a graduate of Villanova Law School and is a practicing attorney in a large law firm with offices in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Princeton, New Jersey. Her specialties include school law and health care law. She has taught School Law, Health Care Law, and Health Care Ethics in the graduate school at Saint Joseph's University.
1 Introduction
2 The Educator and Liability
3 Schools and the State
4 Students and the Law
5 Teachers and the Law
6 School Desegregation
7 School Finance Issues
Supplements the textbook Law and American Education: A Case Brief Approach. Since the text only includes summaries of the cases, the guide presents fuller textual presentations of the cases. Also included are a sample syllabus and some sample examinations.
— 2002; Reference and Research Book News