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Legal Updates

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Issues related to public school employment and students sometimes must be resolved above the campus or district levels. Some cases go to the Texas commissioner of education or State Board for Educator Certification; others are decided by the courts. TCTA reports on cases of interest in our emailed eUpdate newsletter. You'll also find those reports below.

Asked to work over your summer break?

Dec 10, 2010

Can I be required to work in the summer? What if I refuse? Can I be fired? Can the district just add days to my contract?

Counselors making the right call

Dec 10, 2010

School counselors and other Texas educators are routinely confronted with issues involving the confidentiality of student records and related…

Supreme Court rules that students grading papers OK

Dec 10, 2010

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that students grading the papers of other students and even calling out the scores is not a violation of the Family…