Here is a book to serve educators from all types of schools in either pre-service or professional development that is designed as a text for master's and licensure (post-master's) level. This book covers all the relevant issues in school law: ·The legal system ·The federal and state role in education ·Church-state relationships ·Attendance law ·The instructional program ·Student rights ·Teacher contracts ·Rights and freedoms ·Teacher negligence ·Law for handicapped students, and ·Desegregation The author groups case summaries, which include a brief, ramifications, and topics of interest to educators, together at the end of each chapter to facilitate research efforts. The book is a concise presentation of the constitutional, statutory, and case law knowledge that is needed for the effective day-to-day operation of schools and school systems. Contemporary issues having a large impact on school law, such as vouchers, the evolution vs. creation controversy, and home-schooling are included.

Leo H. Bradley has been a professor of school law for fifteen years. Prior to his professoriate, he held the positions of teacher, principal, curriculum director, assistant superintendent, and superintendent in Ohio public schools.