Education Law: Important Cases

"Separate but equal educational facilities for racial minorities is inherently unequal violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment."

The Brown (1) decision shall be implemented "with all deliberate speed."

Texas' public education finance system did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause by failing to distribute funding equally among its school districts.

Statutory provisions for allocation of State aid to local school districts for the maintenance and support of public elementary and secondary education are not violative of the equal protection clause of either the Federal or State Constitution, nor are they unconstitutional under the education article of the N.Y. State Constitution.

"In order to provide a thorough and efficient education in poorer urban districts, the State must assure that their educational expenditures per pupil are substantially equivalent to those of the more affluent suburban districts"

Students must be given a hearing before being suspended from school.

Affirmed lower court decision, holding that the Eighth Amendment was inapplicable to corporal punishment imposed by public school administrators. Furthermore, the Due Process Clause did not require notice and hearing prior to the imposition of corporal punishment in public schools, as the practice was authorized and limited by the common law.

Students have " a legitimate expectation of privacy", so searches must be reasonable under the circumstances.

A school cannot limit a student's First Amendment rights as long as the self-expression does not "materially and substantially disrupt the work and discipline of the school . . ."

The State of Illinois’ extraction of agency fees from nonconsenting public-sector employees violates the First Amendment; Abood v. Detroit Bd. of Ed., 431 U. S. 209, which concluded otherwise, is overruled.