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All Districts Should Have Chromebooks Have you thought of why students are even more technologically advanced. Right now, students in kindergarten are using chromebooks and the teachers of the students are saying it has made learning easier, as well as teaching. All school districts should have chromebooks because it enhances learning and allows students to be more technologically advanced. Furthermore, students can learn more, and pay less while doing so. Students will be able to use better

by probable cause. The interests in schools are different because they must maintain order and discipline of children and their Fourth Amendment rights must be balanced. One type of search that has arisen lately is the strip search. The Supreme Court had not directly ruled on the constitutionality of strip searches until 2009 with the case of Safford Unified School District v. Redding. This paper will break down the topic of strip searches in public schools into three parts. Part 1 will show

The school finance reform is focused on the distribution of funds across rich and poor district schools. The reform was based on the thought that rich neighborhoods and households were better in spending on education. These scholars would access better programs and their family backgrounds could put them in the most precious and advanced institutions. Poorer neighborhoods on the other hand struggled to raise fees and sometimes students were forced to drop-out due to financial challenges. The historical

DATE: November 1, 2014 RE: Speeker v. South Bay County School District Facts Oliver Wendell Holmes High School took part in a community wide health fair. The school set up a booth and asked their students to participate. The teachers gave extra credit to the students that attended the health fair, and the student would have to sign in at the schools booth to verify their attendance. Susie Speeker, a student at Oliver Wendell Holmes High School, attended the fair with her family. While at the community

While individual school districts across the United States are autonomous entities granted with the legal authority to establish policy guidelines and sanctions for violation of these rules, each district must also comply with federal education mandates. One of these national programs, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), is designed to preserve the rights of disabled children by extending them additional protections and services within the public education sector. The local Greene

Independent School District decision of 1969. The verdict quickly became a precedent for many other decisions involving school issues and is very relevant today. In December of 1965, students attending Des Moines Public Schools held a meeting at Christopher Eckhardt 's house to conduct a plan to show their support for a truce in the ongoing Vietnam War. They resolved to wear black armbands during the holiday season and also to fast on December 16 and on New Years. The principals at the school received

In the Tinker V. Des Moines Independent community school district case students were involved in a silent protest against the Vietnam war. The school tried to prevent the students from protesting by telling them that if they wore their black armbands they would be suspended until they agreed to take them off. The U.S. District Court sided with the school saying that the bands could disrupt the children from their work. The students appealed the case to the Court of Appeals but lost. They then took

As cuts to educational funding continue, the question of lowering overall costs through school and district consolidation emerges at all levels. Arguments for consolation, which merges districts and consolidates their management, rest primarily on two presumed benefits: (1) fiscal efficiency and (2) higher educational quality. However, a review of current research evidence suggests that after a century of consolidation, most fiscal or educational efficiencies have been realized by the system (Howley

Community School District (1969). This significant case helped shape the extension of symbolic speech, as well as ensure the freedom of speech and expression to students in schools. In December 1965, a group of Iowa residents, both adults and children, gathered to discuss ways in which they could protest American involvement in the Vietnam War, a very controversial issue at the time. The group decided to wear black armbands for the month of December as a form of peaceful

Contextual Factors Community, District, and School Factors Rio Grande City has 11.35 square miles of land. According the census it has a total population of 14,033. The median income is $29,974 with 5.6% unemployment rate. The immediate surrounding area of the school consists of a small subdivision mostly filled with one story houses. There are several small restaurants around that area that are well known. The RGCCISD has a mission to promote that no bullying shall be tolerated. They will strive