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Mandatory Maternity Leave Policy In The School Systems - A Survey Of Cases, Phyllis Elayne Marcus
Mandatory Maternity Leave Policy In The School Systems - A Survey Of Cases, Phyllis Elayne Marcus
Cleveland State Law Review
Thus, it has been suggested that mandatory maternity leave regulations, which are in force in many American school systems today, are a ". . . manifestation of [this] cultural sex role conditioning . ... " It is only recently that the power of the school boards to make these rules requiring teachers to take leaves of absence after a certain month of pregnancy have been challenged in our courts. The first two cases raising this issue were La Fleur v. Cleveland Bd. of Educ.3 and Cohen v. Chesterfield County School Bd.4 in May 1971. Since then, there have been a …
Untenured Professors' Rights To Reappointment, Arthur H. Kahn, Michael D. Solomon
Untenured Professors' Rights To Reappointment, Arthur H. Kahn, Michael D. Solomon
Cleveland State Law Review
We are now in a period during which present tenure systems are undergoing close scrutiny by the public and the legislatures. Some of those now criticizing universities would like to see these institutions of higher learning placed under greater accountability to the public. It is especially during this period that university boards and administrators must exercise extreme care to eliminate abuses of tenure and pre- vent any new abuses from occurring, in order to avoid unnecessary criticism from those who wish to embarrass the supporters of that academic freedom under which our universities have flourished. To further complicate this controversy …
Probationary Teachers And The Expectancy Of Continued Employment, James T. Flaherty
Probationary Teachers And The Expectancy Of Continued Employment, James T. Flaherty
Cleveland State Law Review
This article will investigate the extent to which the tenure benefits of due process are available to petitioners who can establish an "expectancy of employment." This due process, as to dismissal, includes notice, opportunity for a hearing and reasonable cause.