Chagrin Falls Exempted Village Schools: Case Study

In 1995, Doe v. Duncanville Independent School District centered around a female student-athlete and her unwillingness to participate in prayer activity. She claimed her refusal to engage in team sponsored worship subjected her to ridicule from teammates, peers, and spectators. The Supreme Court ruled that the school district had failed the Lemon Test by endorsing religion through employee-led prayer, which is a direct violation of the Establishment Clause (Lee, 2005). As a result, “school officials, administrators, and employees were prohibited from initiating, leading, sponsoring, or promoting prayer at athletic events, or using the public address system for similar purposes” (Willett, 2014). This may not have been the popular decision, but

Facts: Matthew Frayser, while in an assembly of approximately 600 students, made a speech nominating another student for elective office. Fraser used many obscenities in his speech often making a graphic sexual metaphor when referring to the candidate. Because of the incident Fraser was suspended for three days, but served only two of the three days. The Bethel School District said it, “ substantially interferes with the education process… including the use of obscene, profane language or gestures.”

Unfortunately, education policy and adherence to the McCleary decision was not all the representative Rep. Stonier had hoped for since the capital budget failed to pass the State Senate. Although K-12 has taken the brunt of the attention, when it comes to education policy, Washington State University Vancouver students are still an enormous consideration for Stonier, who says students who have been on the waiting list for aid grants are being given funding, though the new budget and the “bipartisan effort to fund student need grant” was even higher than in the past. K-12 has taken the brunt of the education policy attention, but Washington State University Vancouver students are still an enormous consideration for Stonier. She says students who have been on the waiting list for aid grants are receiving funding, through the new budget and the “bipartisan effort to fund student need grant” was even higher than in the past.

In the well-known case of of Tinker Verses Des Moines Independent Community School District, the Supreme Court remarked, “it can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” While shedding your thoughts and freedom of speech or expression at “the schoolhouse gate” can be difficult, the district did have the right to not renew the teacher’s contract. I think that it is important to keep my mind what the judge stated in the facts above, “teachers … do not have a right under the First Amendment to express their opinions with their students during the instructional period.” The teacher gave her opinion and an idea of her political view by stating

The meeting continued with board member Jason Hopp presenting Dr. Matthew Flannery, formerly the principal of Shiloh Hills Elementary School, for a roll call vote to approve him as the new Assistant Superintendent of the WIlson School District. Mr. Hopp spoke for approximately two minutes about the credentials, reputation, and record of quality performance that Dr. Flannery has documented during his time with the district. A five-year contract was approved on an 8-1 vote, with Mr. Martin voting “no”. It may be worth observing that Mr. Martin is known as the “no man” of the current board, and often tows one of the more conservative lines of all board members. One can speculate that he may have felt

Chagrin Falls Intermediate School student uses school project to benefit students at JM Gallagher School in Cleveland.

86). The Supreme Court ruling in the Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District set the standard for protection of students’ First Amendment rights. Many cases that have utilized the ruling of this case have been in cases that dealt with student freedom of speech. Even though this case dealt with students wearing armbands in protest of the Vietnam War, the standard was set for students in dealing with publications, yearbooks, and newspapers as well (Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District

High School is an incredibly important period of life. It influences your social, academic, and personal life for four years, and prepares you for college and a career. This is the reason County Prep High School is my school of choice. County Prep's thriving social environment, challenging academic curriculum, and wide variety of electives will help me successfully carry out my plans for the future.

For the example in this memo, I will be focusing on the funding of educational programs. As you are aware, 38% of the property taxes fund school programs such as athletics, arts, and all day kindergarten. Due to the great recession, property values here in the Knoxtown area were greatly affected and a majority of properties lost nearly 50% of their assessed value. A significant portion of our constituents also lost their homes. Due in some part to these two factors, our projected revenue was not met. The overall revenue for the city was down 42% resulting in a serious budget shortfall. The loss of these property taxes resulted in the cutting of many school programs. The children of our constituents not have fewer athletic and arts programs to choose from as well as eliminating full day kindergarten for the next term. If corrections to the budget are not made, some bus services and reduced lunch programs will also be eliminated.

The teacher I interviewed for this project was a fifth-grade teacher, Mr. Keith Wolkovitz. This teacher has been teaching at East Rock Community Magnet School for his entire career of eleven years. East Rock Community Magnet School is a Title I school in the New Haven School District. The school has a very diverse population and over 90% of the students qualify for the free-reduced lunch program. As a Title I school, the school is also mandated by the state to implement certain remedial interventions to improve students’ academic scores.

Students and teachers are free to speak their minds on public school grounds. They are free to express themselves though their choice of clothing, hair, jewelry, etc. However, this protection guaranteed through the First Amendment’s Free Speech Clause is not unlimited. The idea is that students are free to express their views unless there is a compelling reason to stop them. School officials cannot arbitrarily pick and choose the speech it will allow. In the scenario mentioned here the school must demonstrate that the speech would provoke “substantial disruption” of school activities or invade the rights of others. Admittedly, the Nazi arm bands are offensive to the Jewish students but it does not invade their rights. If the Jewish students

It is a public effort to help struggling teachers keep public education alive, so teachers can reach all Mississippi’s children whether they are poor, middle class, rich, black, or white. Unfortunately, that has often been effectively concealed beneath the clouds of political smoke. We need to save discussion of issues such as top heavy school districts and school consolidation for another day. No one in Jackson has any intentions of tackling those political time bombs in the very near future; such issues are simply being used to confuse and divide the

After several years of success, the required cuts along with economic woes rendered Proposal A largely ineffective and unable to properly fund Michigan’s schools, creating a massive problem in the way Michigan school districts are to be funded, as well as developing a need for new educational policy to supplement or overhaul Proposal A and the Michigan educational system.

It is personally satisfying to me to work with the students and teachers in District 57. I am driven to do my very best for them. Through collaboration with the teachers, I was able to determine their needs, from gathering and preparing materials to providing extra help in the classroom. I demonstrated cooperation and

The Candler County School District is a small, rural school system located in southeast Georgia. Candler County is made up of the city of Metter and the town of Pulaski. Currently, there are four schools in Metter. Employing 369 faculty and staff, bus drivers, and central office staff, the school system is the largest employer in the county. Metter was founded in 1889 and incorporated in 1903 as a town in western Bulloch County. However, in 1906 Dr. Wallace Kennedy spearheaded a movement to create a new county with Metter as the county seat. The movement became reality in 1914 when Candler County was carved from parts of Bulloch, Emanuel and Tattnall counties and became Georgia 's 150th county. Metter re-incorporated as a city in 1920.