LAW AND PUBLIC EDUCATION
Examines the legal issues related to the policy decisions and delivery of public education (elementary and secondary) in the United States. Learn how law impacts both curriculum development and curricular delivery, explore current legal controversies, constitutional issues, and learn about legal reasoning and analysis. Examines how both legislation and litigation affects public education. Particular attention is paid to law as public policy and the analysis of the same.
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Requisites: Junior standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify various analytic frameworks that guide legal analysis. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Analyze the use of principles and/or frameworks to a situation or issue. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Understand the role of analytic frameworks in the development and implementation of law and policy. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Describe the many legal issues inherent in daily school practice. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Discuss various legal principles. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Examine the sources of law and the various interests that the law seeks to balance. Audience: Undergraduate 7. Recognize and identify independently the many legal issues inherent in daily school practice. Audience: Graduate 8. Explore and apply various legal practices and their application. Audience: Graduate 9. Examine the sources of law and the various interests that the law seeks to balance, provide varying arguments in written form. Audience: Graduate 10. Find and understand primary sources of legal authority (e.g. actual cases, statutes, and administrative rules). Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify various analytic frameworks that guide legal analysis. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Analyze the use of principles and/or frameworks to a situation or issue. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Understand the role of analytic frameworks in the development and implementation of law and policy. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Describe the many legal issues inherent in daily school practice. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Discuss various legal principles. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Examine the sources of law and the various interests that the law seeks to balance. Audience: Undergraduate 7. Recognize and identify independently the many legal issues inherent in daily school practice. Audience: Graduate 8. Explore and apply various legal practices and their application. Audience: Graduate 9. Examine the sources of law and the various interests that the law seeks to balance, provide varying arguments in written form. Audience: Graduate 10. Find and understand primary sources of legal authority (e.g. actual cases, statutes, and administrative rules). Audience: Graduate
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