WGU School Law D017 Latest Update with Complete Solutions

WGU School Law D017 Latest Update with Complete Solutions Common School Movement () Horace Mann, Mass. Effort to fund schools in every community with public dollars - start of systematic public schooling. A Nation at Risk 1983 National Commission report calling for extensive educational reforms, including more academic course requirements, more stringent college entrance requirements, upgraded and updated textbooks, and longer school days and year. Content, expectations, time, teaching. Role of Federal Government in Schools Can influence education thorough funding powers and enforcement of constitutional rights. Federal Legislation Law at the highest or national level of a federal government, consisting of a constitution, enacted laws and court decisions pertaining to them. In education compliance is usually attached to funding. State Legislation States pass laws on issues. Example: compulsory attendance laws. Must be constitutional. What are Federal and State Regulations? Supplements to the law that are legally binding. Help explain how the law should be interpreted and implemented. Case or Common Law The body of law made up of judicial opinions and precedents State Court Structure Varies by state but general includes trial court, state courts of appeal, and a state supreme court. Any federal question would go to the US District Court instead of the Trial court. Separate but Equal Doctrine Established in Plessy v. Ferguson that African Americans could constitutionally be kept in separate but equal facilities. Unitary System The status a school system achieves "when it no longer discriminates between school children on the basis of race," ReZoning of Schools Because of a long history of gerrymandering boundary lines with the intent to segregate, many school boundaries during the 1950s and 1960s had little to do with geographic barriers (e.g., rivers, hills); safety issues (e.g., location of busy roads, factories); or the size, location, or dispersion of the student population. When the schools were rezoned with good faith the schools were better integrated. 1st Amendment Religion,