choice for students interested in education law and policy. On this page, we outline some of our course offerings. Courses Education law courses examine the laws and policies that govern the K-12 and higher education systems. Federal, state, and especially local authorities have a stake in the delivery of educational services. "Slavery is a violation, by law, of liberty. The protective tariff is a violation, by law, of property." If Bastiat were alive today, he would be disappointed with our failure to keep the law within its proper domain. Over the course of a century and a half, we have created more than 50,000 laws. systems, it is essential that education leaders have at a minimum a basic under-standing of school law. Before 1954, the Supreme Court addressed only a handful of cases involving K-12 schools and higher education. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), perhaps the Supreme Court's most impor-tant education-related decision, ushered in Higher Education Amendment Act No. 39 of 2008: Download: 31 December 2007: Education Laws Amendment Act No. 31 of 2007: Download: 11 December 2006: Further Education and Training Colleges Act [No. 16 of 2006] Download: 26 January 2006: Education Laws Amendment Act No.24 of 2005 : Download: 26 April 2004: Education Laws Amendment Act No. 1 of Education law is the body of state and federal law that covers teachers, schools, school districts, school boards, and the students they teach. Although the public school system is administered by the federal Department of Education, states are responsible for maintaining and operating public schools in compliance with state and federal laws. Acknowledgements The Right to Education - Law and Policy Review Guidelines were produced by the Education Sector of UNESCO in Paris. They are the result of fruitful collaboration between UNESCO and OIDEL (Organisation internationale pour le droit à l'éducation et la liberté d'enseignement), a major international non- governmental organisation (NGO) - coordinating a platform of 23 THE EDUCATION ACT, 2011 ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS PART I PRELIMINARY Section 1. Short title and commencement 2. Interpretation 3. Application PART II INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK 4. Functions of Minister 5. Determination of national policy on education 6. Establishment of regional education offices 7. Establishment of district education offices Education law developed as a legal specialization to ensure all students, faculty and staff within an educational system are treated fairly and their civil rights are not compromised. Education law primarily deals with topics in: Civil rights. Separation of church and state. Discrimination. National Education Policy 2020 2 19 Effective Governance and Leadership for Higher Education Institutions 49 PART III. OTHER KEY AREAS OF FOCUS 20 Professional Education 50 21 Adult Education and Life Long Learning 51 22 Promotion of Indian Languages, Arts and Culture 53 23 Technology Use and Integration 56 24 Online and Digital Education: Ensuring Equitable Use of Technology 58 The Law on Inclusive Education . INCLUSION. is the principle that supports the education of children with disabilities alongside their non -disabled peers rather than separately. Both the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (Sec. 504) require schools and agencies to provide equal educational Special Education Law 3 reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."2 Therefore, education i