The Education Law Association (ELA) is a national, nonprofit member association offering unbiased information to its professional members about current legal issues affecting education and the rights of those involved in education in both public and private K-12 schools, universities, and colleges. Together, our professional community anticipates trends in education law and supports scholarly research through the highest value print and electronic publications, conferences, seminars, and other professional forums. Members receive additional publications, first notifications, and free or special pricing on publications, webinars, seminars, and conferences.

1. EDUCATION LAW
ASSOCIATION
2013
THE WESTIN
WESTMINSTER, CO

2. WELCOME!
We are happy you are
here!

3. SPONSORS, ADVERTISERS & EXHIBITORS:
Brackett & Ellis, P.C.
Fort Worth, TX
Complete
Equity
Markets
CENGAGE
Learning
National Conference on
Law & Higher Education
Stetson Law

4. 2013 ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Move of the ELA headquarters

5. 2013 ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Publications
Conference Papers Project
Principal’s Legal Handbook
Entire new website.
Technologically advanced & more secure.

6. A look to our current successes.
WELCOME TO YOUR NEW HEADQUARTERS!
Proclamation
s presented
to Director
Smith & Dean
Boise by
Cleveland
Mayor Frank
Jackson.

7. A look to our current successes.
THE 2013 ANNUAL CONFERENCE, WESTMINSTER, CO

8. A look to our current successes.
THE 2013 AWARD WINNERS
Winner: The Joseph C. Beckham Dissertation of the Year
Inequitable Injustice: A Critical Analysis of the Litigation Concerning Illinois
School Funding
Robert Fitzgerald.: Researcher, University of California Center for Collaborative
Research for an Equitable California, Santa Cruz, CA

9. A look to our current successes.
THE 2013 AWARD WINNERS
Winner: George Jay Joseph Education Law Writing Award
Public Policy and Contractual Equity Principles in Individualized Education
Programs
Matthew Saleh, J.D..: Doctoral Candidate, Politics & Education, Columbia University
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and Teachers College, New York, NY
Winner: Steven S. Goldberg Award for
Distinguished Scholarship in Education
Law
Realizing Educational Rights:
Advancing School Reform through
Courts & Communities
Anne Newman, Ph.D.: Researcher,
University of California Center for
Collaborative Research for an Equitable
California, Santa Cruz, CA

10. A look to our current successes.
THE 2013 AWARD WINNERS: OUR HIGHEST AWARD
The Marion H. McGhehey Award
P. Tyson Bennett
The managing partner of the Annapolis office of
Carney, Kelehan, Bresler, Bennett and Scherr,
focuses on education law, disabilities law,
employment law and zoning law. He represents
private and public educational institutions and
interests throughout Maryland. He has served as a
member of a county school board and as a local
education hearing examiner. He has been counseling
local school boards for more than 25 years.

11. PLANS FOR 2014
Continue to increase live professional
development offerings
Los Angeles
Baltimore
Fort Worth & Houston
Cleveland
Offer webinar series in Feb/March.
Webinar series is included with your
membership!

12. PLANS FOR 2014
Membership: increase activity by state
directors
Publications
New Partnership: NASPA
New editions & new titles
Increase books appropriate for course work
& other academic supplements.
Update conference papers project to include
2013 papers – excellent for research!

13. E-BOOKS COMING SOON!
Educator’s Quick Guide to the IDEA (2013)
Educator’s Guide to School Law 2013 (2013)
Allan Osborne, Ed.D.: Principal (Retired), Quincy Public Schools, Quincy, MA

14. NEW EDITIONS & TITLES COMING IN 2014
Case Studies in Higher Education Law
Sexual Harassment & Bullying: similar but not the
same
Educational Finance Law (new edition!)
A Documentation System for Teacher Improvement
or Termination (new edition!)
A Digest of Supreme Court Decisions Affecting
Education (update to 2009 edition!)

15. CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR NEW
VICE-PRESIDENT AND DIRECTORS
The ELA Board of Directors is comprised of 9 directors and 4 officers. New to
the board as elected at the conference:
Vice President:
R. Craig Wood, Professor, University of Florida
Board Members:
Wayne Haglund, Attorney, Lufkin, TX;
Joy Blanchard, Assistant Professor, Florida International University; and
Dannelle Walker, Attorney/Administrator, Tennessee State Board of
Education.
2014

16. 2014 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
November 13-15
Sheraton San Diego; San Diego, CA
See you there, if not before!

18. YEARBOOK OF EDUCATION LAW 2013, CHARLES RUSSO, EDITOR
Justin M. Bathon
Assistant Professor
University of Kentucky
Janet R. Decker
Assistant Professor
Indiana University
Allan G. Osborne, Jr.
Retired Principal
Snug Harbor Community School
Susan C. Bon
Associate Professor
George Mason University
Jeffrey S. Greenley
Assistant Attorney General
Columbus, Ohio
Marius Smit
Associate Professor
Potchefstroom, South Africa
Kevin P. Brady
Associate Professor
North Carolina State University
Pieter Huisman
Professor, Erasmus Sch of Law
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Jeffrey C. Sun
Associate Professor
University of North Dakota
Belinda M. Cambre
Assistant Professor
University of New Orleans
Neal H. Hutchens
Associate Professor
Penn State University
Regina Umpstead
Associate Professor
Central Michigan University
Amy L. Dagley
Assistant Professor
University of Louisiana at Monroe
James L. Mawdsley
Instructor, Dept of General Studies
Cleveland State University, Ohio
David L. Dagley
Professor
The University of Alabama
Ralph D. Mawdsley
Professor of Law
Cleveland State University

19. Mark A. Gooden (Lead Editor)
Associate Professor and Director of the Principalship Program, Department of Educational Administration, The Univ of Texas
at Austin, Austin, TX
Mario S. Torres, Jr. (Section 1 Editor)
Associate Professor, Department of Educational Administration & Human Resource Development, Texas A&M Univ, Coll
Station, TX
Julie F. Mead (Section 2 Editor)
Department Chair, Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Laura R. McNeal (Section 3 Editor)
Assistant Professor, Brandeis School of Law, Univ of Louisville, Louisville, KY
Suzanne E. Eckes (Section 4 Editor)
Associate Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN
Professor Supplemental Materials
Prepared by Mark Mitchell,

20. Elizabeth Allen Borreca
Director of Exceptionality, Univ of St.
Thomas, Houston, TX
Jean B. Crockett
Professor & Director, Univ of Florida,
Gainesville, FL
Jesulon Gibbs-Brown
Assistant Professor, Univ of S Carolina,
Columbia, SC
Jay R. Cummings
Professor, Coll of Education, Texas
Southern Univ, Houston, TX
Justin M. Bathon
Assistant Professor, Univ of Kentucky,
Lexington, KY
Raul R. Calvoz
Doctoral Student, Univ of Texas, Austin,
TX
Philip T.K. Daniel
Professor of Educational
Administration, The Ohio State Univ,
Columbus, OH
Christian M. Bell
Doctoral Candidate, The Univ of Texas,
Austin, TX
William Camp
Professor, Univ of N Texas, Denton, TX
M. David Alexander
Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State Univ, Blacksburg, VA
Nicholas E. Barclay
Doctoral Candidate and Research
Assistant, Univ of Nevada, Reno, NV
Christopher P. Borreca
Partner, Thompson & Horton LLP,
Houston, TX
Tina Chang
In-House Counsel, American Guild of
Musical Artists, Chicago, IL
Bradley W. Davis
Researcher, Univ of Texas at Austin,
Austin, TX
Susan G. Clark
Professor, Univ of Akron, Akron, OH
John Dayton
Program Chair, Univ of Georgia,
Athens, GA
Brad Colwell
Professor and Dean, Bowling Green
State Univ, Bowling Green, OH
Suzanne E. Eckes
Associate Professor, Indiana Univ,
Bloomington, IN
Scott Ellis Ferrin
Associate Professor, Brigham Young
Univ, Provo, UT

21. Richard Fossey
Professor, Univ of Louisiana at
Lafayette, Lafayette, LA
Kelly Frels
Senior Counsel, Bracewell & Giuliani
LLP, Houston, TX
Richard T. Geisel
Associate Professor, Grand Valley
State Univ, Grand Rapids, MI
Mark A. Gooden
Associate Professor and Director,
The Univ of Texas at Austin, Austin,
TX
Preston C. Green, III
Chair and Professor, Penn State
Univ, State Coll, PA
W. Kyle Ingle
Assistant Professor, Bowling Green
State Univ, Bowling Green, OH
Amy P. Lippa
Doctoral Student, The Univ of Texas,
Austin, TX
Ralph D. Mawdsley
Professor of Law and Education
Cleveland State Univ, Cleveland, OH
Martha M. McCarthy
President’s Professor, Loyola
Marymount Univ, Los Angeles, CA
John S. Gooden
Professor and Program Coordinator,
Alabama State Univ, Montgomery, AL
Ralph Sharp
Professor Emeritus, Education
Department, East Central Univ, Ada,
OK
Cathleen A. Geraghty-Jenkinson
Lecturer Univ of California,
Riverside, Riverside, CA
Laura R. McNeal
Assistant Professor, Brandeis School
of Law, Univ of Louisville, Louisville,
KY
Brenda R. Kallio
Associate Professor, Univ of North
Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
Julie F. Mead
Department Chair, Univ of WisconsinMadison, Madison, WI
Robert Kunzman
Associate Professor and Associate
Dean, Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN
James B. Gessford
Partner, Perry, Guthery, Haase &
Gessford, P.C., L.L.O., Lincoln, NE
Evan G. Mense
Assistant Professor & Director,
Southeastern Lousiana Univ,
Hammond, LA
Kenneth E. Lane
Professor and Director,
Southeastern Louisiana Univ,
Hammond, LA
Steven L. Nelson
Doctoral Candidate , Penn State Univ,
State Coll, PA

22. Allan G. Osborne, Jr.
Principal (Retired), Snug Harbor
Community School, Quincy, MA
Douglas Otto
Visiting Professor, Univ of North Texas,
Denton, TX
Mark A. Paige
Assistant Professor, Univ of
Massachusetts-Dartmouth, Dartmouth,
MA
Patrick D. Pauken
Vice Provost, Associate Professor,
Bowling Green State Univ, Bowling
Green, OH
Paige C. Perez
Ph.D. Student, Texas A&M Univ, Coll
Station, TX
Gregory H. Perry
Partner, Perry, Guthery, Haase &
Gessford, P.C., L.L.O., Lincoln, NE
William E. Sparkman
Professor, Univ of Nevada - Reno,
NV
James A. Plenty
Doctoral Fellow, & Candidate, Alabama
State Univ, Montgomery, AL
Daniel D. Spikes
Doctoral Candidate, The Univ of
Texas, Austin, TX
Michael D. Richardson
Department Head, Southeastern
Louisiana Univ, Hammond, LA
Jennifer A. Sughrue
Professor, Southeastern Louisiana
Univ, Hammond, LA
Zainabu Rumala
Fulbright Recipient, Attorney & Research
Assoc,Harvard Law School, Cambridge,
MA
Stanley L. Swartz
Professor, California State Univ, San
Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA
Charles J. Russo
Panzer Chair in Education & Adjunct
Professor of Law, Univ of Dayton, OH
David M. Schimmel
Professor Emeritus, Univ of
Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA
Lynn Rossi Scott
Attorney, Brackett & Ellis, Fort Worth, TX
Ralph Sharp
Professor Emeritus, Education
Department, East Central Univ, Ada, OK
Mario S. Torres, Jr.
Associate Professor, Texas A&M
Univ, Coll Station, TX
Richard S. Vacca
Prof Emeritus &Senior Fellow, Virginia
Commonwealth Univ, Richmond, VA
Dennis W. Van Berkum
Professor Emeritus, Minnesota State
Univ Moorhead, Moorhead, MN
R. Craig Wood
Professor, Univ of Florida, Gainesville,
FL

23. THANK YOU TO OUR AUTHORS!
Search & Seizure in the Public Schools
Fourth Edition
Jacqueline Stefkovich, Ph.D., J.D.: Professor, The Pennsylvania State University, University
Park, PA
Lawrence F. Rossow, Ed.D.: Associate Vice President and Professor of Education, University of
Houston Victoria, Victoria, TX, Professor Emeritus of Law & Education, The University of
Oklahoma, Norman, OK
The Law of Teacher Evaluation
Third Edition
Lawrence F. Rossow, Ed.D.: Associate Vice President and
Professor of Education, University of Houston Victoria,
Victoria, TX, Professor Emeritus of Law & Education, The
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Laural Lagun-Fain, Ph.D.: Training & Staff Development
Specialist for Spurs Sports & Entertainment, San Antonio, TX

24. THANK YOU TO OUR SLR AUTHORS!
Federal Courts
U.S. Supreme Court
Fred Hartmeister
Texas Tech University
Rebecca Hellbaum
Health Sciences Center, Texas Tech
University
Court of Appeals
5th Circuit
Larry Rossow
University of Houston-Victoria
11th Circuit
Jennifer Sughrue
Southeastern Louisiana University
Stewart Mayers
Southeastern Oklahoma State Univ
Federal Supplement
6th Circuit and Ohio
Betty Cox
University of Tennessee at Martin
1st Circuit
Vicky McGinley
West Chester Univ of Pennsylvania
7th Circuit
Suzanne Eckes
Indiana University
2nd Circuit
Kathryn McCary
McCary & Huff, LLP
Amy Steketee Fox
Baker & Daniels LLP
3rd Circuit
Wendy Beetlestone
Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin
4th Circuit
Jennifer Sughrue
Southeastern Louisiana University
8th Circuit
R. Stewart Mayers
Southeastern OK State Univ
9th Circuit
David Dagley
University of Alabama
10th Circuit
Traci Ballard
University of Oklahoma-Tulsa
Brenda Kallio
University of North Dakota
R. Stewart Mayers
Southeastern Oklahoma State Univ
Spencer Weiler
Univ of Northern Colorado
Tiffany Puckett
Univ of IL at Urbana-Champaign
David H. K. Nguyen
Indiana University

25. THANK YOU TO OUR SLR AUTHORS!
Higher Education
Federal Cases
State Courts
Luke M. Cornelius
University of North Florida
Southern
Johnny R. Purvis
University of Central Arkansas
Pacific
Ed Irvin
State of Nevada
Northwestern
Rick Geisel
Grand Valley State University
Atlantic
Luke Stedrak
Seton Hall University
Northeastern
Janet Decker
Indiana University
New York
Jeanne Surface
University of Nebraska-Omaha
Joseph McNabb
Northeastern University
State Cases
Joy Blanchard
Florida International University
Elizabeth T. Lugg
Illinois State University
Neal Hutchens
University of Kentucky
Southwestern
Michael Tan
William Woods University
Rebecca Schlosser
Sul Ross State University
Southeastern
Jennifer Sughrue
Southeastern Louisiana University
CO-EDITORS
Brad Colwell
Bowling Green State University
bcolwell@bgsu.edu
Patrick Pauken
Bowling Green State University
paukenp@bgsu.edu

26. 2014 Professional
Development
Events coming next semester:
Cyberbullying: Los Angeles
Cheating & Standardized Tests: Baltimore
K-12 Issues: Ft. Worth & Houston
K-12 Issues: Cleveland