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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED335733 AUTHOR: Vacca, Richard S.; Hudgins, H. C., Jr.
TITLE: The Legacy of the Burger Court and the Schools, 1969
1986. NOLPE Monograph/Book Series No. 41.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1991
NOTE: 151 p.
AVAILABILITY: postage and handling on prepaid orders).
ABSTRACT: This book is limited to a study of the education
opinions of the Supreme Court during the time that Warren
Earl Burger served as Chief Justice. Over 100 opinions
having direct bearing on education were issued during the
Burger years, a total greater than in the entire Court's
history. The first chapter presents the history of the
establishment of the Court followed by information about
the present work schedule, hearing and deliberating on a
case, judicial review, and brief sketches of the 13
justices, including Chief Justice Burger. Subsequent
chapters discuss the following topics: (1) employment
issues in schools; (2) student issues; (3) race and
desegregation; (4) school finance issues; (5) civil rights
tort; and (6) legacy of the Burger Court and the schools.
As the Court's membership changed and the volume of
education cases increased, the Burger Court moved from an
activist, social change-oriented Court, through a period
when the Court assumed a quasi centrist posture, to a more
conservative attitude. The Court's gradual evolution
eventually returned more authority to school boards and
administrators--authority that had been severely curtailed
during the Warren Court era. Legal references accompany
each chapter and a table of cases in alphabetical order
concludes the book. (MLF)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Affirmative-Action; Constitutional-Law;
Corporal-Punishment; Discipline-; Due-Process; Educational
Finance; Elementary-Secondary-Education;
Equal-Opportunities
Jobs; Higher-Education; Private-Schools; School-Personnel;
State-Church-Separation; Student-Rights; Teacher-Rights
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Court-Litigation; *Federal-Courts;
*Public
Education; *Public-Schools; *School-Law
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