Education
Special Education and Discipline
In special education, students have more protection, so school discipline is different. This brochure gives an overview of how school discipline works in special education.
Suspension
This brochure contains information about the suspension process and your rights.
The Official Site of the U.S. Department of Education
The Department of Education’s mission is to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access. Find more information about their work and about student loans, grants, and education-related legislation, regulations, guidelines and policies on their website.
United Way Association of South Carolina
Acting alone no one of us can create a better future and a better quality of life for all South Carolinians, but if we stand up and speak with a unified voice we can create a brighter future for all our citizens.
Unlawful Discrimination
There are laws that mandate that school officials not discriminate against students on the basis of sex, national origin, color, language, religion, or disability. The United States Justice Department enforces these laws. Find information on those laws, including how to file a complaint, on this web page.
US Department of Education: Office of Civil Rights
The mission of the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence throughout the nation through vigorous enforcement of civil rights. Find information about the office and how to file a complaint on this website.
What SC Law Says About Expulsion
If you are expelled, you are taken out of school for the rest of the school year or longer. There are many different actions that can lead to your expulsion. This brochure explains what happens and what you can do.
When a Dispute Arises in the Individualized Education Program (IEP Process)
The South Carolina Department of Education's Office of Special Education Services provides informal dispute resolution help to families and schools where disputes arise regarding programming for students with disabilities. Find information about that process on this web page.
Workplace Fairness Website
Workplace Fairness is a non-profit organization that provides information, education and assistance to individual workers and their advocates nationwide and promotes public policies that advance employee rights. Our goals are that workers and their advocates are educated about workplace rights and options for resolving workplace problems, and that the policy makers, members of the business community, and the public at large view the fair treatment of workers as both good business practice and sound public policy. Workplace Fairness works toward these goals by: (1) making comprehensive information about workers' rights – free of legal jargon – readily available to workers and to advocates and organizations that assist workers; (2) providing resources to support the work of legal services organizations, community-based organizations, law schools, and private attorneys that provide free legal information and services to low-income workers; (3) presenting the employee perspective in publications, policy debates, and public discussion.
Wrightslaw
This website provides information about special education law, education law, and advocacy for children with disabilities.
