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The Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe stated that student-led/ student-initiated prayer at high school football games violated the establishment clause of the first amendment. The Baptist religion was promoted in the Santa Fe Independent School District in Texas, which is located between Galveston and Houston. A teacher handed out flyers for a “revival meeting” which involved reading the bible and other Catholic things. They offered prayer up to God at graduations, assemblies, and football games. One mormon student and mother filed suit against the school district. Also, one catholic student and mother filed suit against the school district. Their lawsuit involved that the Establishment Clause was violated many times. They did not

If the schools didn’t make AYP for three years in a row, they had to provide free tutoring and supplemental educational service. Everyone involved felt that the NCLB had unsolved issues. (Randolph & Wilson-Younger, 2012). There are teachers that argue that the testing is not fair with the children that are under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Children with individualized education plans are being forced to take standardized test on their grade level and the teachers argue that the tests might be way above where these children are academically. This also includes the children who have English as their second language because they are struggling when they are taking the standardized tests. Additionally, Choi, (Aug. 2012) describes how many schools struggle to meet the Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) under the Act called No Child Left Behind (NCLB). Pressures on the schools to meet the AYP can affect how each school does their testing and teaching policies. While states have been silent, the question has been whether states have a responsibility to intervene.

The first clause of the first amendment to the United States Constitution reads, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” (“First Amendment” 1). In Santa Fe, Texas, a student “chaplain” was elected by his or her classmates to give pre-game prayers at high school home football games over the school’s public address system. Several students sued, arguing that such solemnizing statements or prayers constituted an endorsement of religion, violating the Establishment Clause of the first amendment. The district countered that the pre-game invocations were a long-standing tradition in Texas communities, and because the prayer came from

The IDEA or the Individuals with Education Improvement Act of 2004 was instituted by the Senate and House of Representatives in the United States Congress. This act is a precedent for persons with disabilities. Before this act, the needs of children with disabilities were being under met. In order to improve the state of where the educational system and related services were for children with disabilities, the federal government along with the local and state agencies has coordinated in order to provide appropriate education for children with special needs. A student with a disability has a federally protected right to a free and appropriate education and related services in a least restrictive environment. As a result of this act, each state is federally mandated to abide by the IDEA. Each state

In 1995, there was a dispute between the Santa Fe Independent School District, and the families of the students who went there. Two different religious families filed a lawsuit against the Santa Fe Independent school district because religious prayers were being said over the public address system by the student council chaplain. The Santa Fe’s Independent School District violated the Lemon test law by allowing student-led prayers to be recited on the public address system, which was not furthering the student's education, they were not acting neutrally toward religion, which is a distinct part of the Lemon Test rule, and they violated the rule against government and religion being mixed.

The case that I have been researching is the Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe, case number 530 US 290. This case was argued in the year 2000, the final decision was made on June 19, 2000. In this research paper you will read about what happened before, during and after this case. The question that was brought forth to the court and what the Court's final acknowledgement was. Did you know that the Establishment Clause is to prohibit the establishment of a national religion by Congress and the preference by the U.S government of one religion over another.

The second report, “On the Road to Better Accountability,” is an analysis of state charter

As the contemporaneous society becomes a less safe place due to events such as natural calamities or man made disasters (e.g. shootings), the schools must adapt and become better able to manage crises situations. And recognizing this need, the state regulators provide their financial and counseling support for the implementation of more adequate emergency management plans.

Charter Schools are independent from the administrative structure of the school district that allowed its creation. However, the terms of the abiding contract between the charter school and the district school board should be the guideline for its evaluation. Essex (2008) explains the Fifth Amendment clause as, “due process requires fundamental fairness, faire process, and faire procedures” (p.83). All children deserve the same quality education and opportunities than any other child in the nation. Therefore, equal accountability should be measured with equal standards. Standard 2 of the Florida Principal Leadership Standards states that effective school leaders, “generates high expectations for learning

In 2001, the 107th congress of the United States of America passed the No Child Left behind Act (NCLBA). This act is a federal law that denoted that lower income children be granted additional educational assistance in exchange for improvements in their academics. One of the stipulations within the act states that each year, a school must have standardized test improvement and better scores in order to receive further funding in the following years. If a school does not improve its scores, it is punished by receiving less funding than the year previous. However, there are some positives to this act. State and local education programs are enabled to transfer over fifty percent of federally allocated funds to address gaps in the local and state

District 7 needs to build a new school to improve our facilities. One reason why are facilities need to be improved is because we do not need rags laying in the halls to soak up water when it is raining. We do not need rags laying in the hall saturated in water because they get in the way of us walking in the halls, and they are easy to trip over and cause someone to fall and get hurt.

Independent schools have had a historical role in educating students throughout the world. Economic pressures and school competition, at various times, have threatened the sustainability of independent schools. This study will examine the marketing approaches used by Hawaii Independent Schools (PK-12) and what the school’s administration perceives to be the effectiveness of their marketing techniques and its impact on enrollment. Hawaii has a thriving and competitive independent school climate, which requires marketing strategies to attract parents to enroll their children in a particular school. It is a common practice that independent schools create marketing strategies which they believe will have an impact on enrollment. The goal of marketing

It the past, many school corporations have consolidated, which has caused many small- town schools like Johnson township in Eckerty indiana, to absorbed and lose a part of their history . there are two residents of Eckerty, Darius and Anthony Adams, who recall their fond memories of the old Johnson Township School in Crawford County. Few residents remember its consolidating to a single school corporation, multiple grades and ages taught in just a few classrooms, or the closing of Johnson Township School.

Parents and supporters of students with disabilities were able to use this case to improve educational opportunities for their children, and “established the right of all children to an equal opportunity for an education” (Heward., 2009, p. 26). Individuals With Disabilities Education ActIn 1975, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EAHCA), which is also known as Public Law 94-142, was passed by Congress and has been reauthorized and amended by Congress five times since it passed. In 1900, congress changed the name from Education of All Handicapped Children Act, and enacted The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act instead. This law was later reauthorized in 1997 and named Public Law 105-17, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments (IDEA), was passed into a federal special education law, with final federal regulations being published in March 1999, and retained all of the earlier versions of Public Law 94-142. In 2004 this act was again reauthorized and became The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA), also known as IDEA 2004.The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, requires that public schools serve all students and “ensures that children with learning disabilities have the ability to receive a free appropriate public education that

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 was “a United States Act of Congress that reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. This act was created to close the achievement gap with accountability, flexibility, and choice, so that no child is left behind.” NCLB “is a federal law that mandates a number of programs aimed at improving U.S. education in elementary, middle, and high schools by increasing accountability standards” (White). This act was an act that mostly provided for disadvantaged students. The NCLB Act joins the standards and procedures proposed by President Bush. These incorporate expanded responsibility for states,