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Board of Regents of State Colleges v ROTH
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| postprobatiory or tenured teachers are entiled to due process of law under the 14th Amendment prior to be being terminated |
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| What kinds of teachers gain due process protections under the 14th Amendment? Which law? What does the law say? |
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| Federal law; only tenured and postprobationary teachers; requires school district officials to provide reasons and a hearing before a teacher's contract is renewed |
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| What about states and protection of teachers? |
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| State legislature may choose to provide additional employee protections and Nevada have extended due process protections to probationary employess |
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| Pickering v Board of Educ |
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| teachers enjoy a limited 1st Amendment right to express opinions criticizing the actions of the school administration when such expression is found to relate to matters of public interest or concern; you don't give up the right at the school gate |
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| inefficienty, neglect of duty, insubordination, conduct unbecoming of teacher, immorality, other causes |
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| incompetency-lacks of some ability:inability to mainain discipline, inproper teaching techniques, refusal to accept teaching advice of supervisor |
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| persistent violation of school laws, rules, regulations, or directives |
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persistent violation of directives by administrators or supervisors regarding issues such as a) student discipline b) requiring problem students to be sent to the principal;s office c) use of library or other school facilities by studnets while scheduled to be in class d) use of cleanliness of classroom
failure to allow supervisory personeel to observe him/her in the classroom |
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| conduct unbecoming a teacher |
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| materially impairs his/her educational effectiveness: unproper relationship of the etacher to student, verbal or physical abuse of students |
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| NRS Chaptre 391: sexual assault, indecent or obscene exposure |
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| other causes of teacher dimission |
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| Reduction in Force "RIF" a justifable decrease in the number of positions due to decreased enrollment or district reorganization, goes usually by seniority |
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| Nevada-specific reasons for teacher dismissal |
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| conviction of felony or of a crime involving moral turitude |
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| satisfacory or unsatisfactory; postprobatiory teachers once a year, probatiory 3 times a year |
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| must be notified in writting by March 1 if an employee's chances for reemployment are at risk |
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| successfully completing 2 year probatiory period, the 2nd year of probationary period shall be waived by the superintendant of schools if the employee has received 3 satisfactory evaluations during the 1st year of probatiory period |
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| Hortonville Joint School District 1 v Hortonville Education Associattion et al |
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| dismissal of striking teachers, Nevada is a "right-to-work" state and prohibits teacher strikes |
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| Can the teacher join any employee organization? |
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| yes, and school board cannot disciminate in any way on account of membership or nonmembership |
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| To which matters mendatory bargaining is limited? |
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| wages, hours, and conditions of employement. Local schools must negotiate in good faight |
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| Which matters are not within the scope of state mendatory bargaining law? |
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| 1) the right to assign or transfer employees (except for punitive reasons)2)the right to determine work performance standards 3) the right to determine content of the work day |
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| Which acts are linked to sexual harassment? |
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| Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act 1964 (protects employees against sexual harassment in the workplace) and Title 9 of Education Amendments 1972 (prohibits sex dicrimination in educational institutions) |
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| Two types of sexual harrasment |
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| quid pro quo (something for something) and non quid pro quo (actions or verball messages creating an offensive, hostile, or intimidating work environment-hostile work environment) |
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| abusive work environment - a reasonable peson would find hostile or abusive and one in which the victim's subjective perception is that the environment is abusive |
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| Two cases which were talking about sex harrasment |
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Meritor Saving Bank, FSB v Vinson 1984
Henson v Dundee 1982 |
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| Franklin v Gwinett County Public School |
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| recovery of monetary damages was available under Title 9 for the sexual harrasment of a studnet by the schoolteacher when the school officials intentionally took no action to halt it |
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| Harris v Forklift Systems |
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| proving "abusing work environment" harrasment no longer requires evidence of serious psychological damage, but may be ascertained by considering all of the circumstances involved in the situation |
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| Gebster v Lago Vista Independent School District |
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| under Title 9 a student sexually harassed by a teacher could recover damages against the school distict only if a school official with authority to take corrective action was notified of the harrasment |
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| Davis v Monroe County Board of Educ |
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| school was found to be delibaretely indifferent to the harrasment |
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| To protect teachers and other employees from a violent student the board of each school district have to: |
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| inform each employee of the disstrict who may have consistent contact with te pupil if that pupil has , within the preceding 3 years unlawfully caused or attempted to cause serious bodily injury to any person. The district shall provide this inf based upon any written records that the district maintains or which it receives from a law enforcement agency or a court. |
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| What the Nevada law states about reporting child abuse? |
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| That abuse or neglect must be immediately reported if one knows or has reason to believ that a child has been abused or neglected (physical, mental, negligent treatment or maltreatment) |
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| what the copyright law say? |
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| "fair-use", reasonable manner. |
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