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2016

Education

University of Missouri School of Law

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Evaluating The Special Needs Doctrine In The Context Of Higher Education, Ryan Prsha Nov 2016

Evaluating The Special Needs Doctrine In The Context Of Higher Education, Ryan Prsha

Missouri Law Review

Part II of this Note discusses the legal context in which this issue must be framed and gives a brief history of how the courts have handled public school drug-testing policies to this point. Part III examines the current state of drug testing in the academic setting – specifically focusing on the ongoing legal situation at Linn State. Part IV delves into questions concerning the Eighth Circuit’s current treatment of the Linn State situation, as well as the potential approaches that the judiciary could take in future cases.


Access To Education: Transgender Students In Missouri’S Public Education System, Cailynn Hayter Jun 2016

Access To Education: Transgender Students In Missouri’S Public Education System, Cailynn Hayter

Missouri Law Review

Although the questions about whether transgender students have a right to use the restrooms of their gender identity in public schools have been centered on moral and religious concerns, this Note does not focus on those aspects. Instead, it focuses on legal precedent and the implications of developing law on the issue in Missouri. The first half of this Note discusses the federal and state legal backgrounds of transgender students’ right to use the restroom of their gender identity, while the second half discusses the need for the Missouri General Assembly to adopt a specific statute protecting this right.


We Have To Do Better: Attacking Teacher Tenure Is Not The Way To Solve Education Inequity, Ellen Henrion Apr 2016

We Have To Do Better: Attacking Teacher Tenure Is Not The Way To Solve Education Inequity, Ellen Henrion

Missouri Law Review

“[I]t is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.” In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court of the United States struck down public school segregation laws and declared that equal access to education was a right that must be afforded to every student. Sixty years after this landmark decision, significant education equity issues continue to plague the country’s schools, which …