Education Law

3 credits · Undergraduate

American schools have long been battlegrounds for the nation’s most highly charged political and cultural conflicts. New fights over student speech and the rights of transgender students have piled on top of continuing struggles over racial segregation, school prayer, special education, and educational finance. In this class, we will explore a range of legal and policy issues facing American public and private K-12 schools. More broadly, we will grapple with pressing questions about the relationship between schooling and the state in a pluralist democracy. Prerequisite/Corequisite: ULAW 1000. [3]