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We the Students . . . The Constitutional Issues of Educating Our Children |
Saint Louis University Public Law Review
Vol. XXIII, No.2
Michael A. Karr, Managing Editor
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Dr. R. Craig Wood
Dr. Wood is the B.O. Smith Research Professor at the University of Florida, and is the author of over 100 publications about education law issues. He is the Past-President of the Education Law Association, and during his tenure presented “The Status of Education Finance 2001 With Missouri Implications” to the Missouri Joint Committee on Education Funding in Nov. 2001. Dr. Wood’s article will focus on the legislative aspect and responses to financing education.
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Dr. Philip T. K. Daniel
The President-Elect of the Education Law Association, Dr. Daniel is also a professor of education administration and higher education at The Ohio State University. He is the author of three texts exploring law and legal rights within the educational enterprise, and will be writing his article on the juxtaposition of affirmative action and desegregation.
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Dr. Ralph D. Mawdsley
Currently a professor of educational administration at Cleveland State University, Dr. Mawdsley is a former President of the Education Law Association and is presently their Ambassadors Committee Chair. He is the author of Legal Problems of Religious and Private Schools, and has presented “Parents, Vouchers, and the Dark Side of the Force” at the Utah Education Law Institute. This school year, Dr. Mawdsley is presenting in both Australia and Africa, teaching two courses, and is planning to publish a text on search and seizure rights of students. His article will address issues of the privacy rights of teachers.
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Dr. Richard W. Fossey
Dr. Fossey is a professor of educational leadership and cultural studies at the University of Houston. In addition to serving on the National Board of Advisors for the BYU Education & Law Journal, one of only three such publications, he is also the author of five texts on issues ranging from crime on college campus to racial equality in schools. In his article, Dr. Fossey plans to tackle the legal landscape after the Supreme Court’s Zelman decision regarding the Cleveland voucher program.
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Dr. Martha McCarthy
Dr. McCarthy is the Chancellor’s Professor at the Indiana University School of Education. Among her numerous awards, she is the recipient of the Tracy M. Sonneborn Award for teaching and research and the M.A. McGhehey Award for outstanding contributions to the field of school law. In addition to her eight books and 150 articles and publications, she has most recently written Public School Law: Teachers’ and Students’ Rights. She will be taking up issues of silent prayer in state public schools in her article for the Public Law Review. |
Abstract
With nearly 58% of the population of the United States either enrolled in or employed by a system delivering educational services, education represents a cornerstone of American life. As such a cornerstone, educational policy runs the gamut of areas of the law, from criminal law concerns over drugs and guns in schools to the hot constitutional issues of school prayer and affirmative action.
In the second issue of the Saint Louis University Public Law Review, we take on this broad area of American life. Distinguished legal scholars and policymakers have contributed articles ranging from issues of school finance to teacher privacy. In his article, Dr. R. Craig Wood, author of over 100 articles in education law, tackles the legislative concerns of education finance. Dr. Ralph Mawdsely focuses his article on issues of teacher privacy, a policy issue that he is currently teaching in two foreign countries. The current President-Elect of the Education Law Association, Dr. Philip T.K. Daniel, writes about the links between affirmative action and desegregation, an especially timely focus given the Supreme Court’s recent decisions.
Unique among policy issues, education affects all generations at all strata of society. Our second issue, We the Students . . . The Constitutional Issues of Educating Our Children, will open up new discussion upon this most important of legal, and societal, concern.
If you have any questions regarding this symposium, please feel free to contact the Managing Editor, Michael A. Karr at karrma@slu.edu, or by phone in the Public Law Review office at (314) 977-3937.
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