LAW-2256 Education, Equality and the Law
The course emphasizes the general principles, sources, and purposes of the education law, with a marked emphasis on civil rights and the allocation of educational opportunity in elementary, secondary and post-secondary educational institutions in the U.S. Course themes explore discrimination in public education on the basis of disability, sex, race, national origin, language, and sexual orientation among others. Topics include school finance, testing equity, school choices & vouchers, freedom of speech & equal access, IDEA & Section 504 disability rights, desegregation & affirmative action, equal protection & single sex schools, Title IX of the Higher Education Amendments, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. Participants engage in discussion of case law, as well as theoretical and practical policy solutions drawing on education, sociology, critical race theory source materials, in addition to traditional legal research, culminating in a series of collaborative peer and professorial roundtable paper critiques. Participants may elect to take the course for edited legal writing credit. There are no required prerequisites for this course.
Prerequisite
Student has completed any of the following course(s) LAW 156 - Constitutional Law, LAW 158 - Constitutionl Law II, LAW 552 - Constitutional Law