Dist v. Andrew Ordway, a ruling given in California in 2002, the judge ruled that a school administrator was personally liable under the Civil Rights act for interfering with a mother's attempt to get FAPE for her son (Wright & Wright, 2005)
Such rulings make it clear that personnel, schools and districts must be diligent about complying with federal special education regulations. The three sets of laws -- IDEA, 504, and ADA, certainly create a complex web of rues, parents have considerable rights, including making a formal complaint to the Office of Civil Rights (Zirkel, 2000)
This gave him the same benefits as a retired professor with tenure. The university also agreed to conduct training on the prevention of age discrimination in hiring (Huckabee, 2009)
After eleven years with a stellar record at Wilbur Wright, including being the only part-timer to receive the college's Teaching Excellence Award, she was not interviewed. And subsequently the two open full-time positions were filled by applicants who were then twenty-nine and thirty (Jacobe, 2006)
The Chancellors office concluded that such a practice would constitute unlawful discrimination on the basis of age. State regulations prohibit discrimination on the basis of explicit protected categories, including age, in any program or activity that is funded directly by the state, or receives any financial assistance from the state (Black, 2002)
At the time she was hired, Jacobsen was halfway through a master's program in computer science at Governor's State University. She intended to finish the degree within a year, although that didn't happen, according to court papers (Freedman and Freedman, 2007) The evidence that was presented showed that the plaintiff was rejected for the tenure-track position while being selected for a one-year, temporary position that had a lesser title
e., the traditional public school ethnic mix brought about through busing; vouchers, re-districting, and various other measures, some of them better, and more successful, than others) and socioeconomic status (SES) diversity (a way of defining, and perhaps reaching, public school diversity based on social class, and without "playing the race card" (Jones)