Updated and revised to reflect new policy and legal decisions, the Fifth Edition of Public School Law: Teacher"s and Student"s Rights provides an all-inclusive treatment of the current status and evolution of the law governing public schools, making it the most comprehensive and well-documented text of its kind. The text addresses legal principles applicable to practitioners in a succinct but comprehensive manner. It uniquely blends a detailed treatment of landmark cases with a thorough discussion of the legal context, trends, and generalizations to guide all school personnel in their daily activities. Information in this text will help alleviate concerns voiced by educators who either don"t know the legal concepts that govern schools or feel that the scales of justice have been tipped against them.