Academic Issues
Public schools that emerge through a contract with a state agency or a local school board.
What are charter schools?
Highly qualified, according to courts, to assess student progress and assign grades
Who are educators?
Prohibits unauthorized use of copyrighted material for profit or public display without appropriate payment to or permission
What is the Copyright Act of 1976?
The act was committed to ensuring that every child can read by the end of third grade.
What is Put Reading First?
Consistently held that public school students should not be physically punished for conduct not related to disciplinary infractions
What are U.S. courts?
The range of courses taken by students and the teaching, learning, and assessment processes involved in a given course of study
The major education act of 2001 based on four principles of school, including a stronger accountability for results
What is No Child Left Behind?
Has the authority to promulgate promotion and graduation requirements
What is the state?
Any unprofessional conduct or lack of sufficient skill in the performance of professional duties by an educator
What is educational malpractice?
This act requires that schools failing to make adequate progress for two consecutive years or more use a portion of their Title I funds to allow low-income student to enroll in supplemental services.
What is the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965?
Supported in the Owasso Independent School District v. Falvo court case, but should be avoided by teachers
What is peer grading?
Give parents the freedom to choose a private school for their children, using all or part of the public funding set aside for their children’s education
What are vouchers?
This specifies that all laws and treaties made by the federal government shall be the supreme law of the land.
What is the Supremacy Clause? or What is Article VI of the U.S. Constitution?
Refused to intervene in the failure of a school district to promote third grade students who failed to pass a reading level test
What is the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals?
The state and year of the first charter school
What is Minnesota in 1992?