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Title IX-
Title VI-
Title VII-
I.D.E.A.-
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Title IX- gender (pregnancy)
Title VI- race
Title VII- employment
I.D.E.A – disability
A.C.A.- disability |
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| respect authority of applicable and controlling precedent |
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| acts of the school board to segregate; Segregated schools in which the separation of the races was required by law or was the result of other action by the state or its agents |
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| choice of families to segregate communities in the selection of there homes |
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| grants blacks as citizens; protects civil liberties of anyone’s life, liberty, or property without due process of law; protects against states denying anyone privileges; letting women into VMI if they met standards |
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| positive steps taken to increase the representation of women and minorities in areas of employment, education, and business from which they have been historically excluded. |
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| Do students have free speech rights at school? Are they the same rights as adults in general? |
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| Freedom of Expression and Press- Students have the right to express nondisruptive ideological views at school, but restrictions can be placed on their expression that represents the school. |
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| How does the legality of student expression differ based on school-sponsorship and whether it is lewd, vulgar, offensive, and/or threatening? |
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| defamatory, obscene, and inflammatory communications are outside the protectie arm of the First Amendment. Expression that is lewd or promotes illegal activity is not protected in the public school context. |
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| How can a school deny access to clubs? |
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| Public schools can deny access to open forum for noncurriculum student clubs but can't discriminate against specific groups based on the content of their meetings. |
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| Access cannot be denied open forum to student noncurricular activities based on religious, political, philosophical, or other content views in federally assisted schools |
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| What legal right do parents have to dictate what is taught in schools? |
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| Courts don't allow mere parental disapproval of instructional materials to dictate the public school curriculum. |
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| What is the Children's Internet Protection Act |
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| protects youth from online transmission of explicit material. |
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| What does the TEACH Act do? |
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| gives nonprofits more flexibility in using the internet to distribut copyrighted materials in distance ed. programs |
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| Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act 1974- funds are withdrawn from any educational agency or institution that fails to provide parents access to child’s educational records or disseminates such info to 3rd parties without parental permission |
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| What does the Bill of Rights do? |
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| It tells governments what not to do; restrictive |
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| What does the Establishment Clause do? |
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| Restricts government from giving a religion |
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| What does the Free Exercise Claim do? |
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| Wins a person accommodations |
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| What is included in the Lemon Test? |
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whether it have a religious purpose?
whether it advances a religion?
whether it avoids government entanglement with religion? |
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| How are students able to engage in prayer in school? |
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| Students have a free exercise right to engage in private prayer in public schools as long as they do not interfere with regular school activities. |
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| authority and parental interests in having |
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| Which Title prohibits workplace discrimination? |
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| What are the two kinds of harassment and what do they mean? |
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Quid Pro Quo- giving something for something; subjected to unwelcome sexual harassment in sexual advances; harassment based on person's sex
Hostile Work Environment- severe or pervasive; unreasonably interfere with an individual's work performance; threatening or humiliating; multiple times |
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| A civil wrong that results in the injury of others |
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| When someone fails to act in a prudent manner |
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| What is a reasonable person standard? |
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| assumming that te person is normal and can reason; special credentials and size are taken into account |
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| What is the 4 part tort analysis? |
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Injury
Duty
Breach of duty
Causation |
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| What are intentional torts? |
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Battery
False imprisonment
Assault
Intention infliction of emotional distress |
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| What are three types of torts? |
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Defamation
Negligence
Intentional |
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| Paul D. Coverdell Teacher Protection Act |
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| law protecting school officials who take reasonalbe actions when discimpling students |
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