The importance of the Fourteenth Amendment is to furnish a basis for litigation against schools including claims to freedom of speech, press, and religion, due process, and rights to privacy.
2. What rights do parents have within Texas schools? How do these compare with parents’ rights in general?
▪Texas law on the other hand provides significant support for parent rights. ▪Parents are recognized as partners in the educational process. TEC§26.001.
▪The term parent means anyone standing in a parental relationship to a child.
Parents have the right to petition the board to have their child placed at a particular school.
▪Parents have the …show more content…
•Standards and regulations established under federal Commerce Clause..
•Federal constitutional protection of individual rights and freedoms. Constitutional rights and freedoms of individuals: •States cannot violate individual rights. These are applied to the states by the Fourteenth Amendment. •Bill of Rights (first 10 amendments) detail the individual rights of citizens. •Most statutes impacting education if ruled by the court to be unconstitutional are found unconstitutional based on First or Fourteenth Amendments. Supremacy of federal statutes: •State statutes cannot impede the intent of federal statutes as stated in the Supremacy Clause in Article VI §2 of the United States Constitution. •“This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States … shall be the supreme law of the Land; and Judges of every state shall be bound thereby; anything in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.” Federal Funds •States do not have to spend federal funds for purposes that violate state constitution. •The federal government may recover funds used for purposes other than intended or