Catawba Publishing

South Carolina teachers, administrators, trustees, and policy makers will find this new text by Thomas R. McDaniel a helpful guide to the challenging task of educating students in today’s public schools. McDaniel—a professor of education and Senior Vice President at Converse College—has taught teachers and administrators for over 35 years in his Seminar in School Law course and has written and spoken widely on the school law topics he addresses in School Law for South Carolina Educators. Readers will learn about

U.S. and South Carolina Constitutional concepts governing public education policy;

Federal and state cases that affect educational decision making at the state and local level;

Educationally-sound practices relating to such topics as religion and expression, search and seizure, punishment and child abuse, dismissal and decertification, special education and school finance, negligence and defamation—and more.

In this straightforward and readable text, McDaniel uses hypothetical scenarios to challenge educators’ powers of legal reasoning and concludes each chapter with recommended guidelines for practice in the public schools of South Carolina. This concise guide to school law should have a place on the professional shelf of every educator’s book case—and on the desk of every trustee and policy maker in South Carolina!