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The second edition of Practical Education Law for the Twenty-First Century is a one-volume treatise covering the real-life issues that confront education lawyers, administrators, school board members, and teachers on a daily basis. The goal of the volume is to concisely summarize the law in a given area, suggest trends and issues of concern, and provide practical advice to meet important legal and policy challenges. Other audiences for this book are law students, graduate students in education, and anyone interested in the field of education.
The book is organized into ten chapters, each dealing with a major substantive legal area. Within each chapter are a number of concise sub-sections that efficiently address a particular legal concern. Citations are nation-wide in scope and include references to federal and state case law, federal statutory law, and state statutory law. The highly readable text makes this book extremely accessible and useful for a non-legal audience, as well as for a legally trained reader.
A sampling of the topics covered by Practical Education Law for the Twenty-First Century includes school finances, school search and crime issues, residency and fee issues, basic labor law, alternative education and charter schools, vouchers, injuries to students, athletics, the role of local and state school boards, and the overall organization and regulation of public education in the United States. Detailed indexes and tables of contents make this book an easy-to-use reference tool for problem-solving as well as a source for more extensive research.
Reviewing the first edition, Bi-Monthly Review of Law Books said: "This book is a `must' for all education lawyers, counsel to towns, school boards, and school administrators...This book receives the Bi-Monthly Review of Law Books five stars rating for readability, accessibility, and relevance."
