Dr. William Allan Kritsonis Professor Public School Law & Educational Law & Policies Case Five Fourteenth Court of Appeals CITY OF HOUSTON, et al., Plantiffs-Appellants, v. GERALD KALLINA, Defendant-Appellee No. 98-15946 LITIGANTS Plantiffs-Appellants: CITY of HOUSTON. et. al Defendant-Appellee: GERALD KALLINA BACKGROUND Kallina worked as division manager in the fixed-asset...more
William Allan Kritsonis, PhDProfessor Public School Law & Educational Laws and Policies EMPLOYMENT INTRODUCTION When we speak of employment, we find that the public school system is the largest employer in the state of Texas. The full scope of the employment relationship examines the constitutional concept of due process of law, the different employment arrangements that are available to...more
Dr. William Allan Kritsonis Professor Public School Law & Educational Laws and Policies Case Five Court of Appeals of Texas, Beaumont. Nora Kathryn CONROY, Appellant v. NACOGDOCHES INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, Appellee. No. 09-05-362 CV. LITIGANTS Plaintiffs-Appellant: Nora Kathryn CONROY Defendants-Appellee: NACOGDOCHES INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT BACKGROUND At the time Conroy filed her petition, she had been employed as a special education diagnostician by NISD for three years. In November 2002, Conroy and sixteen other special education staff members at NISD filed and signed a complaint with the TEA reporting violations of state and federal law in the NISD special education program. The TEA conducted an initial investigation of the special education program. In January 2003, the TEA sent NISD Superintendent Dr. Tony Riehl a letter advising him of the allegations contained in the complaint and directing the district to take corrective action. In March 2003, in a letter to the United States Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, Conroy again complained of violations of state and federal regulations in...more
William Alan Kritsonis, PhD Professor Public School Law & Educational Laws and Policies FAPE INTRODUCTION The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is the law that provides your child with the right...more
William Allan Kritsonis, PhD Professor Public School Law & Educational Laws and Policies STUDENT ASSESSMENT INTRODUCTION Standardized testing in the state of Texas has undergone several makeovers. Currently Texas public school students are administered the TAKS (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skill) test, but in 1997 the...more
William Allan Kritsonis, PhD Professor PUBLIC SCHOOL LAW EDUCATIONAL LAWS & POLICIES PARENT’S RIGHTS INTRODUCTION Parents are an essential partner in the education of their children. While constitutional law does not necessarily outline parental rights regarding education, Texas statutory law does. In fact, in 1995 the Texas Legislature amended the Texas Education Code to include parent rights and responsibilities. According to Chapter 26 of the Texas Education Code §4.001, “Parents will be full partners with educators in the education of their children (Walsh, Kemerer, & Maniotis, 2007). The state cannot require all students to attend public schools, thus enabling the parents to right to choose where their children will be educated. Parents may send their children to public, private, or home schools. For the purpose of this report, we will present the case that relates to granting parents the right to choose which institution of learning their children will attend. The findings are intended to be informative and beneficial in understanding the precedent set forth for parent...more
When people ask me if there was one language I would absolutely love to learn and have under my belt the answer would probably be Mandarin. Not only is the whole Chinese culture fascinating and how the characters can be traced right back to the Han...more
If you enjoy smoking cigars, you're carrying on a pastime that has been around for a very long time. Few things can compare to the enjoyment derived from a luxurious, high quality cigar. Of course, if you do smoke, you'll realize quickly that you...more
This has been completely proved and it's a waste of time to use it to play esp card games or so on. Want to play esp games? I think you'll be wasting your valuable time. Your ESP senses have been developed for a better purpose, to work with real...more
Foreign language fluency can be a difficult task for many of us, but developing language skills doesn't have to be a hassle. My name is Jack, and I grew up at a school where I was truly immersed in the French language. As opposed to high school...more
It is a known fact that music lovers especially those who prefer classical pieces wanted to have the musical talent to produce such overwhelming and touching sound that is produced by none other than classical instruments like the violin. The violin...more
Christopher Columbus was born in 1451 in Genova, Italy and was the eldest son of Domenico Colombo and Susanna Fontanarossa. Christopher Columbus was a self taught man and is known to have very little formal education. Columbus started his expedition...more