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School Discipline 101: Students' Due Process Rights in Expulsion Hearings
UF Law Faculty Publications
  • Melissa Frydman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Shani M. King, University of Florida Levin College of Law
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-1-2006
Abstract

Upholding the principle that school districts, as state actors, shall not deprive a student of liberty or property without due process of law, courts have expanded for more than four decades the Fourteenth Amendment's due process protection of public school students. Understanding this principle is essential to representing children in school discipline proceedings. Before presenting a practical guide to representing students in these proceedings, we offer a brief history of due process protection for children.

Citation Information
Melissa Frydman & Shani M. King, School Discipline 101: Students' Due Process Rights in Expulsion Hearings, Clearinghouse Rev., Sept.-Oct. 2006, at 370, available at http://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/facultypub/233