Educational policy controversies in the United States invariably implicate legal issues. Policy
debates about testing and school choice, for example, cannot be disentangled from legal rights and
mandates. The same is true for issues such as funding, campus safety, speech and religion rights, as
well as the teaching of immigrant students. Written for a general audience, this new twelve-chapter
book explores these compelling educational policy issues through that legal lens, building an
understanding of both law and policy.
The book's editors are Kevin Welner, associate professor of educational policy at the University of
Colorado at Boulder, and Wendy Chi, a doctoral candidate at Boulder. Both Welner and Chi are
lawyers as well as educational scholars.