MUCE 503 - Music Teachers and The Law

3 Credit(s)

The purpose of this course is to equip each student with a basic understanding of current educational law. Topics will include the legal frame works affecting public schools, students’ constitutional rights, individuals with disabilities, teachers’ legal rights and teacher and school district liability. Broad legal concepts such as separation of church and state, freedom of expression, search and seizure, due process, equal protection, discrimination, and tenure and dismissal will be examined through constitutional law, statues, case law and commissioner’s decisions.