D017 SCHOOL LAW -WGU LATEST EXAM 2025
WITH MULTIPLE CHOICE OF QUESTIONS AND
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What are state legislative bodies responsible for? - CORRECT
ANSWER-Requirements for student graduation
Which type of educational law has inuenced how a school
district develops their programs for English
learners? - CORRECT ANSWER-Case law
Which school board practice is often used as a means of
ensuring or ignoring the ruling that "separate but
equal" is unconstitutional? - CORRECT ANSWER-School attendance
zones
Which testing school practice was influenced by Brown v. Board
of Education? - CORRECT ANSWER-Subgroup data analysis of testing
results
What would be the purpose of changing school zone
boundaries? - CORRECT ANSWER-Desegregation of schools
,Which ruling was violated when students with disabilities were
placed in separate schools? - CORRECT ANSWER-14th Amendment
What is the motivation for communities seceding from school
districts? - CORRECT ANSWER-Circumventing integration
Which amendment does the Lemon test determine violation of?
- CORRECT ANSWER-First Amendment
Which legal justification is used by some states for the use of
public funds to purchase textbooks for students in parochial
schools? - CORRECT ANSWER-The child benefit theory
Which law provides protection to students who choose to kneel
during the Pledge of Allegiance? - CORRECT ANSWER-First
Amendment
Which law would allow a student worship club to hold after
school meetings on a high school campus, given the school has
a limited open forum? - CORRECT ANSWER-Equal Access Act
A rural elementary school allows a moment of meditation
during the first period of the day. Some students engage in a
silent prayer during this period. Teachers express concern that
this period promotes prayer in school.
Based on case law surrounding prayer in schools, how should
the administrator respond? - CORRECT ANSWER-Continue using the
meditation period as is since it is not designed to promote
religion.
,Which action do local authorities have the right to take when
states maintain control over curriculum in public schools? -
CORRECT ANSWER-Provide additions to curriculum beyond those
required by the state
What did the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Lau v. Nichols
require of public schools? - CORRECT ANSWER-That they provide
supplemental language instruction to students with limited
English proficiency
Which criterion did Castañeda v. Pickard set for educational
programs targeting English learners? - CORRECT ANSWER-Programs
must be based on research.
Which U.S. Supreme Court case established that schools must
provide supplemental supports to English learners? - CORRECT
ANSWER-Lau v. Nichols
What is the Tinker test often used for? - CORRECT ANSWER-To
determine a violation of First Amendment rights
A group of students wore shirts with political messages
displayed on them. The principal received several complaints
from parents that evening who demanded they be banned from
wearing clothing with political messages that could be viewed
as offensive or insensitive to specific groups of students at the
school.
, Which court case ruling should the principal apply in deciding
whether to ban students from wearing clothing with political
messages? - CORRECT ANSWER-Tinker v. Des Moines
Which student rights were found to be violated In the landmark
case of T.L.O. v. New Jersey? - CORRECT ANSWER-Unreasonable
search and seizure
A high school principal gets an anonymous call that several
students at the school are members of rival neighborhood gangs
and that tension has severely escalated over the weekend. The
individual is afraid that the conflict will carry into school on
Monday morning and gun violence could ensue. Since the caller
did not provide specific names of students, the principal
decided to call the local police department for assistance in
searching every student with metal detectors prior to entering
the school for the next week. Several parents began calling
saying that their child was not involved in any of this and that
forcing them to go through a metal detector search was a
violation of their Fourth Amendment rights.
What response should the principal provide in reaction to the
parent complaints? - CORRECT ANSWER-The use of metal detectors
does not violate student Fourth Amendment rights when the
element of danger is adequate and justified.
During lunch, an assistant principal is approached by several
students stating that they saw another student with a knife in
his locker. After searching the student's locker, no knife was
found. Considering
that student lockers are explicitly stated as the personal
property of students in the school's handbook, the student's
parents were upset that the search took place and complained
WITH MULTIPLE CHOICE OF QUESTIONS AND
DETAILED SOLVED SOLUTIONS ALREADY
GRADED A+ AND 100% GUARANTEE PASS
(JUST RELEASED!!!!!!)
What are state legislative bodies responsible for? - CORRECT
ANSWER-Requirements for student graduation
Which type of educational law has inuenced how a school
district develops their programs for English
learners? - CORRECT ANSWER-Case law
Which school board practice is often used as a means of
ensuring or ignoring the ruling that "separate but
equal" is unconstitutional? - CORRECT ANSWER-School attendance
zones
Which testing school practice was influenced by Brown v. Board
of Education? - CORRECT ANSWER-Subgroup data analysis of testing
results
What would be the purpose of changing school zone
boundaries? - CORRECT ANSWER-Desegregation of schools
,Which ruling was violated when students with disabilities were
placed in separate schools? - CORRECT ANSWER-14th Amendment
What is the motivation for communities seceding from school
districts? - CORRECT ANSWER-Circumventing integration
Which amendment does the Lemon test determine violation of?
- CORRECT ANSWER-First Amendment
Which legal justification is used by some states for the use of
public funds to purchase textbooks for students in parochial
schools? - CORRECT ANSWER-The child benefit theory
Which law provides protection to students who choose to kneel
during the Pledge of Allegiance? - CORRECT ANSWER-First
Amendment
Which law would allow a student worship club to hold after
school meetings on a high school campus, given the school has
a limited open forum? - CORRECT ANSWER-Equal Access Act
A rural elementary school allows a moment of meditation
during the first period of the day. Some students engage in a
silent prayer during this period. Teachers express concern that
this period promotes prayer in school.
Based on case law surrounding prayer in schools, how should
the administrator respond? - CORRECT ANSWER-Continue using the
meditation period as is since it is not designed to promote
religion.
,Which action do local authorities have the right to take when
states maintain control over curriculum in public schools? -
CORRECT ANSWER-Provide additions to curriculum beyond those
required by the state
What did the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Lau v. Nichols
require of public schools? - CORRECT ANSWER-That they provide
supplemental language instruction to students with limited
English proficiency
Which criterion did Castañeda v. Pickard set for educational
programs targeting English learners? - CORRECT ANSWER-Programs
must be based on research.
Which U.S. Supreme Court case established that schools must
provide supplemental supports to English learners? - CORRECT
ANSWER-Lau v. Nichols
What is the Tinker test often used for? - CORRECT ANSWER-To
determine a violation of First Amendment rights
A group of students wore shirts with political messages
displayed on them. The principal received several complaints
from parents that evening who demanded they be banned from
wearing clothing with political messages that could be viewed
as offensive or insensitive to specific groups of students at the
school.
, Which court case ruling should the principal apply in deciding
whether to ban students from wearing clothing with political
messages? - CORRECT ANSWER-Tinker v. Des Moines
Which student rights were found to be violated In the landmark
case of T.L.O. v. New Jersey? - CORRECT ANSWER-Unreasonable
search and seizure
A high school principal gets an anonymous call that several
students at the school are members of rival neighborhood gangs
and that tension has severely escalated over the weekend. The
individual is afraid that the conflict will carry into school on
Monday morning and gun violence could ensue. Since the caller
did not provide specific names of students, the principal
decided to call the local police department for assistance in
searching every student with metal detectors prior to entering
the school for the next week. Several parents began calling
saying that their child was not involved in any of this and that
forcing them to go through a metal detector search was a
violation of their Fourth Amendment rights.
What response should the principal provide in reaction to the
parent complaints? - CORRECT ANSWER-The use of metal detectors
does not violate student Fourth Amendment rights when the
element of danger is adequate and justified.
During lunch, an assistant principal is approached by several
students stating that they saw another student with a knife in
his locker. After searching the student's locker, no knife was
found. Considering
that student lockers are explicitly stated as the personal
property of students in the school's handbook, the student's
parents were upset that the search took place and complained
