Education Law [Archive]

Education Law Issues: Cosmetology Board Lost My Test Results
Education Law Issues: Financial Aid Problems
Special Needs and Accommodation: Children are Being Sexually Harassed at School
Student Privacy: School Fundraising Records
Grades and Credits: Class Dues as a Diploma Requirement
Compulsory Education: Dropping Out of High School in NYC
Student Discipline: Joke at School - How Much Trouble
Student Discipline: Administrative Bullying
Student Discipline: Unfair Detentions Without Required Documentation
Special Needs and Accommodation: Can A Student With an IEP Be Held Back
Student Discipline: School Punishment for Underage Drinking
Special Needs and Accommodation: Inadequate School Support for an Autistic Child
Special Needs and Accommodation: Implementation of IEPs
Student Discipline: School Teacher and Principal Retaliate Against My Children
Student Discipline: Retaliation For Reporting A Professor's Plagiarism
Discrimination: Unfair Grading of International Students
Student Discipline: Conflict Between A Student And Teacher
Student Speech Rights: Separation of Church and State
Student Discipline: Schools Not Following Their Rules
Education Law Issues: New York University Professor Preventing My Wife From Working
Education Law Issues: College Textbook Damage Charge
Grades and Credits: Legal Action Against a College Professor
Grades and Credits: Administrative Screw-Up Results In Denial Of College Credit
Education Law Issues: School Uniforms
Education Law Issues: College Financial Aid Office Wants Parents' Tax Returns
Student Discipline: Student Getting Expelled for Slapping A Boy in Florida
Special Needs and Accommodation: Autistic Child Being Discharged from Special Ed
Student Speech Rights: Punishment of a Student For Personal Website on MySpace
Grades and Credits: Witholding a Diploma
Student Discipline: Prohibition Against Speaking in the Hallways
Education Law Issues: College Charging Full Semester Tuition for Withdrawal
Student Discipline: Student Accused of Cheating in Class
Student Privacy: Privacy and Freedom of Speech
Student Discipline: Filing a Complaint Against a Florida University
Education Law Issues: FAFSA and Expectation of Parental Contribution
Student Privacy: Searching Cars On School Property
Compulsory Education: What Is The Legal Age To Quit School
Grades and Credits: High School Grades
Student Privacy: Privacy Act and Vindictive Teachers Or Students
Student Privacy: Notification of Offense By University To Adult, Married Student's Parents
Student Privacy: School Sending Transcripts Without My Permission
Student Discipline: School Injustice In South Carolina
Student Discipline: How Do I Appeal School Suspension In South Carolina
Special Needs and Accommodation: Rights Of Students With Disability
Grades and Credits: California State University Grade Point Average Issue
Student Discipline: Student Actions Outside Of School
Student Discipline: Can I Get In Trouble From My School
Grades and Credits: Registering For A Grade
Student Discipline: Excessive Punishment For School Misbehavior
Education Law Issues: Refund For Education Course
Student Discipline: Can I Sue My Institute Over Class Attendance Policies
Special Needs and Accommodation: Disabled Child Neglected At School
Student Discipline: Charging A Student For School Property That Broke
Education Law Issues: Can't Get Tuition Refund, Rules Not Disclosed
Student Discipline: Wrongly Charged Under University Honor System
Grades and Credits: Attendance Based Grade
Education Law Issues: College Off-Campus Housing Policy
Student Discipline: Is it Legal for a School to Take Away Your Cell Phone
Discrimination: Unprofessional Educator
Student Discipline: Possible Athletic Suspension
Grades and Credits: FERPA And Access To Grades Online
Student Discipline: Grade School Cell Phone Confiscation In California
Student Discipline: Suspended For Impersonating My Principal On MySpace
Student Privacy: School "Lost" My Family's Confidential Information
Student Discipline: High School Coach Threatening a Student
Student Privacy: Notifying Parents Of Teen Pregnancy
Student Discipline: 8th Grader Suspended For Sexual Harassment
Student Discipline: Is There A Law Against A Teacher Punishing A Student Over A Personal Grievance
Education Law Issues: The ACP-EU Partnership Agreement
Compulsory Education: Playing "Hooky" When Over 17 Years Old
Education Law Issues: Enrollment In School After Turning 18
Student Discipline: Is it Legal to Prevent A High School Student From Using The Restroom
Grades and Credits: Teacher Misplaced Student Work
Compulsory Education: Truancy And Migraines
Student Discipline: Is It Illegal For Someone To Put Their Hand In A Car And Take Something
Student Discipline: School Cell Phone Confiscation
Student Discipline: University Associate Dean Issues
Education Law Issues: FERPA and Dual Enrollment
Student Discipline: Are "Closed Campus" Rules Legal
Student Discipline: Fair Practice in Education
Student Privacy: FERPA Violations
Grades and Credits: University Denying Degree
Student Discipline: College Conduct Review
Grades and Credits: Senior Project Problems
Student Discipline: Different Gun Safety Rules for Boys and Girls
Education Law Issues: Is It Illegal to Get Another Degree
Special Needs and Accommodation: Home School Rights for Special Education Students
Education Law Issues: Not Receiving Scholarships Despite Prior Confirmation
Student Privacy: Videotaping Public School Events
Education Law Issues: How Persuade a School to Communicate with a Student's Parent
Student Speech Rights: Freedom Of Speech At School
Student Speech Rights: Censorship in Schools
Student Discipline: Email Policies and Code of Conduct
Student Discipline: Academic Probation in California
Education Law Issues: Teachers with Criminal Records
Discrimination: College Admissions Discrimination
Education Law Issues: How Do I Go About After Stopping a Cheque to a Private Educational Institute
Student Discipline: Housing Termination Due to Bulk Alcohol
Student Speech Rights: Profane Language as Grounds for Ejection at Athletic Events
Student Privacy: School Counselor Meets with Children Without Parent Permission
Education Law Issues: Notifying Parent of Injury
Grades and Credits: Error in Grades
Student Privacy: Videotaping in Class, Covertly
Grades and Credits: Getting High School to Fix Grades in Washington State
Education Law Issues: Transfering Schools with Out Parental Consent While Not Living at Home
Education Law Issues: Attending a Dangerous School
Student Discipline: Schools Confiscating Student Property
Student Discipline: Taking a College Credit Course for Someone Else
Student Discipline: Can a School Ban Books
Education Law Issues: 21 Year Old Student with Major Dependence Status Problem
Student Privacy: Recording a Christmas Play
Student Discipline: School Assault Misconduct
Student Discipline: Is a Suspension for Bowl Necklace Legitimate
Education Law Issues: Online University Lied to Gain My Enrollment
Education Law Issues: Leaving a Study Abroad Program
Student Privacy: Transgender Student's Use of Rest Room Facility
Student Discipline: Cell Phones in School
Education Law Issues: Teacher Programs and Sallie Mae
Compulsory Education: When Can a Child Legally Drop Out in NYC
Education Law Issues: Qualifying to Take the GED
Special Needs and Accommodation: When Can An Autistic Child Legally Stop School
Special Needs and Accommodation: Special Education for ADHD
Special Needs and Accommodation: Getting Information About My Child From the School
Student Discipline: Rights of a Child
Student Privacy: Violation of Privacy by a School
Compulsory Education: Truancy Due to Migraines
Grades and Credits: Teacher Stopped Grading Papers
Student Discipline: Are Teachers Allowed to Name Call Students
Grades and Credits: College Appropriated Payment for Wrong Class, Now I Can't Graduate, and I Lose My Job
Student Privacy: University Violation of Rights Via Turnitin.com
Education Law Issues: Legailty of Birth Certificate Requirement to Enroll in Public School
Grades and Credits: GED vs. High School Diploma
Grades and Credits: School Taking Credits
Student Privacy: Privacy of E-Mail and Disability Status
Discrimination: Discrimination in College Organization
Grades and Credits: Difficulty Getting Transcripts
Grades and Credits: High School Grading Bias or Discrepancy
Education Law Issues: Trying to Go Back to School but My Mother Wont Sign Any Papers
Student Speech Rights: Is Posting Ads on Cars in a School's Parking Lot Legal
Student Discipline: Possession of Alcohol on a School Trip
Student Discipline: School Lost My iPod, Not Their Responsibility
Education Law Issues: Financial Aid Discrimination
Special Needs and Accommodation: Does a Public High School Have to Keep a Student Who Has Zero Credits
Special Needs and Accommodation: Handicap Placard
Student Privacy: No Doors on Bathroom Stalls in School
Student Discipline: School Honor Policy Violation and Participation in Athletics
Compulsory Education: Educational Neglect
Grades and Credits: Are School Grades a Student's Property or the School's Property
Student Discipline: School is Charging for Return of Cell Phones
Compulsory Education: Education Neglect
Student Discipline: Confiscation of Student Property for the Entire Year
Student Discipline: Plagiarism
Student Privacy: Tranfer of Police Report to University Administration
Grades and Credits: Scholarship Contract Dispute
Education Law Issues: Financial Aid Refund Money
Student Speech Rights: School Principal Censoring Student Newspaper
Student Discipline: Attending School With a Felony Conviction
Grades and Credits: Pass/Fail Determinations
Student Discipline: Unfair School Suspension, Possible Expulsion
Education Law Issues: College Keeps Cancelling the Required Course
Student Discipline: Dismissed From Exam
Education Law Issues: Changes to Graduation Requirements and Educational Contract Law
Student Discipline: School Assault
Grades and Credits: University of Phoenix Refuses to Award Degree
Education Law Issues: Parental Information Required for Independent Student
Compulsory Education: School Zoning for Independent Minor
Education Law Issues: Parent Won't Provide FAFSA Information
Student Speech Rights: Limits on Poster Size
Education Law Issues: CFR Title 34
Education Law Issues: Kindergarten Student Keeps Getting Beaten Up
Grades and Credits: Public High School Withholding Diploma
Grades and Credits: Can You Sue a College for a Professor's Gross Misconduct
Education Law Issues: Remarriage and College Financial Aid
Education Law Issues: Teacher Assaulted a Student with a Pair of Scissors
Student Privacy: Teacher in the Bathroom
Student Discipline: "Voluntary" Suspension
Student Discipline: 13 Year Old Son Suspended, Accused of Bullying
Education Law Issues: Teacher Assaulted a High School Student
Special Needs and Accommodation: Note from Doctor to School for Special Requirement
Education Law Issues: Unfair Financial Suspension Rule
Education Law Issues: School Stops Offering Loans in Middle of Schooling
Student Speech Rights: Rule Against Throwing Graduation Caps
Discrimination: Excluding Poor Students in Public School
Grades and Credits: Unfair Testing Procedures
Grades and Credits: Denial of Degree Due to Pending Green Card
Student Discipline: Suspension for Response to Verbal Confrontation
Compulsory Education: Criminal Truancy Charges
Discrimination: Instructor Insulted My Religion
Student Discipline: Getting Put Up for Expulsion
Student Discipline: Child Accused of Bullying at School
Education Law Issues: School Bus Driver Gave Medicine to a Student
Education Law Issues: Students Lost Grandfathering of ABET Due to Administration
Compulsory Education: Educational Neglect and Truancy
Education Law Issues: Breach of Contract with Educational Institution
Education Law Issues: University Fails to Follow Their Own Academic Plan
Discrimination: Discrimination in Admissions
Special Needs and Accommodation: University Denying Admission Because I Was Diagnosed with Schizophrenia
Student Privacy: Violation of Student Privacy
Education Law Issues: School Mandating Living on Campus
Student Privacy: Personal Information Sent to Wrong Addressee
Student Discipline: Using School Laptop at Home, Got Me in Trouble
Education Law Issues: Son Kicked Out of Private School for Our Parent's Group, Cease and Desist Letter
Discrimination: Student Discrimination
Education Law Issues: Creationism vs Evolutionism
Student Discipline: University Threatens to Punish Me with No Proof
Grades and Credits: College Did Not Deliver Promised Certification
Grades and Credits: Can I Sue a Professor for Harassment
Grades and Credits: Failed Class with B+ Because of Too Many Missing Assignments
Education Law Issues: Is a University Liable for Publications of a Student Newspaper
Student Discipline: Higher Staff Members Harassing Students and Instructors
Student Discipline: Anti-Bullying Laws, USA Private Schools
Special Needs and Accommodation: Special Ed and Autism
Education Law Issues: Tuition Fees for Community College
Student Discipline: Child Not Allowed in School, Required to Perform School Work at Home
Grades and Credits: When Can Your Grade Be Reduce for Violating a University Attendance Policy
Grades and Credits: Recourse for Arbitrary Grading and Failing
Student Privacy: School Violating Free Speech Rights and Sending Out Defamatory Letters
Student Discipline: Given 2 Hours of Detention for "Breaking and Entering"
Student Discipline: Innocent, Yet Reprimanded by College for Off Campus Activity
Discrimination: Age Discrimination at a University
Student Privacy: Parent's Personnel Dep't Got Child's Suspension Info from the Principal
Grades and Credits: Can You Sue a School for Not Receiving the Education You Pay for
Student Discipline: False Police Report Against Student
Grades and Credits: University Withholds Transcripts
Grades and Credits: Failed Ph.D. Oral Exam
Compulsory Education: School Refusing to Accept Excused Absences for No Good Reason
Student Discipline: Wrongfully Accused of Drug Use and Possession at School
Student Speech Rights: Private University Professor Protection of Speech
Education Law Issues: Business Idea Developed in Class - Must Other Students Consent to its Use
Student Discipline: Is It Legal for a Phone to Be Confiscated
Student Privacy: Search of a Student's Vehicle
Grades and Credits: Received Grades I Didn't Deserve
Student Privacy: Privacy Infringed Upon
Student Privacy: Unauthorized Access to Email and 4th Amendment Rights
Student Discipline: Extortion or Coercion
Special Needs and Accommodation: Education Law - Illegal Practise in Medical Schools
Compulsory Education: Illegal Truancy
Special Needs and Accommodation: Right of Special Needs Child to Transportation
Grades and Credits: Can a School Deny Students Access to an Anonymous Written Exam, Under FERPA
Student Discipline: Retaliatory Conduct Towards Student Who Filed Complaint
Student Privacy: School is Using My Records for Training on Problem Students
Grades and Credits: Can a State University Require a Graduate Assistant to Enroll in a Fake Course
Student Discipline: School Discipline for Comments Posted to Facebook
Education Law Issues: Accused of Slapping a Student
Student Privacy: Can a Teacher Video Record Their Class
Education Law Issues: Teacher Credentials
Grades and Credits: Appealing a Failing Grade
Education Law Issues: Enrolling in College Without Parental Approval
Student Discipline: Breach of Contract By a Private University
Education Law Issues: Are Faculty Members Required to Report All Crimes Against Students