Resources

Tennessee Specific Links

Tennessee Department of Education

Tennessee Organization of School Superintendents

Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association (TSSAA)

Education Terms As Defined By TN Comptroller

Exceptions To Open Record Request

Tennessee Specific Issues

Tennessee Transportation Laws

Tennessee Bullying Handbook For Educators (2024)

FERPA - Student Privacy Rights

United States Department of Education Protecting Student Privacy Resource Page

Exceptions To FERPA Handout

Student Discipline

TN Disciplinary Hearing Authority (DHA) Procedures

TN Compilation of School Discipline Laws and Regulations

TN SPED Manifestation Determination Guidance

Disciplining Students With Disabilities By Bill Wilson (TN) Presentation

TN Discipline Reform Task Force Report 2018

TN Comptrollers Report on Corporal Punishment

SRO, Miranda and the 5th Amendment

School Resource Officers and FERPA

Miranda in Modern School - The Blurry Application of a Bright Line Rule - Indiana Law Review

Removing Miranda From School Interrogations - Nebraska Law Review

Recess is Over: Granting Miranda Rights to Students Interrogated Inside School Walls

TN Attorney General Opinion No. 14-21 - Searches and Arrest on School Property

Constitutional Protections For Students in Public School - 76 Tenn. L. Rev. 211

Open Records

1. 2022 Open Records Seminar PPT - TN State Comprollers’s Office

2. Comptroller Office Opinion 2011 - TPRA and FERPA

3. ETSU Public Records Policy PPT

4. 2017 Student Data Privacy Law - TN Comprollers’s Office PPT

5. TN Public Record Exceptions Database

6. TN Comptrollers Video Presentation of Public Records

7. TN School Retention Records - Provided By CTAS

8. SPED Dispute Resolution Quick Guide

9. TN IEP Timeline Requirements

Special Education

List of Special Education Law By State From Franklin County Law Library

A Simplified Method of Understanding the Disciplinary Removal Rules of IDEA and Section 504 - Jose L. Martin, Attorney at Law

Telios Teaches - Great site with resources for legal issues concerning Special Education

TN Behavior Resources - TN Department of Education

1st Amendment - Freedom of Speech

MTSU - The Free Speech Center - Resources For Teaching In The Classroom

U.S. Department of Education Guidance on Constitutionally Protected Prayer

B.L. v. Mahoney S.C. Opinion

Education Law Podcast

Tennessee School Board Association - “Your Education Source” - Podcast

Class Act: Updates in Education Law Podcast - Walter-Haverfield Attorney’s at Law

Education Law Insights Podcast - Franczek Attorney’s at Law

Let’s Talk Sped Law Podcast - Jeffrey L. Forte, Esq.