accredit ([schwa]-kred-it), vb. 1. To give official authorization or status to. 2. To recognize (a school) as having sufficient academic standards to qualify graduates for higher education or for professional practice. [Cases: Schools 4. C.J.S. Schools and School Districts § 811.] 3. Int’l law. To send (a person) with credentials as an envoy. — accreditation […]
in loco parentis (in loh-koh p[schwa]-ren-tis), adv. & adj.[Latin “in the place of a parent”] Of, relating to, or acting as a temporary guardian or caretaker of a child, taking on all or some of the responsibilities of a parent. • The Supreme Court has recognized that during the school day, a teacher or administrator
constitutionalize, vb. 1. To provide with a constitution (constitutionalize the new government). 2. To make con-stitutional; to bring in line with a constitution (the court plans to constitutionalize the segregated school district). 3. To make a constitutional question out of (a question of law); to subject (issue, etc.) to the burden of passing constitutional muster
educational institution. 1. A school, seminary, college, university, or other educational facility, though not necessarily a chartered institution. [Cases: Schools 11. C.J.S. Schools and School Districts §§ 4, 74, 76, 396–398.] 2. As used in a zoning ordinance, all buildings and grounds necessary to accomplish the full scope of educational instruction, including those things essential
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Equal Access Act of 1984. A federal law that prohibits school districts receiving federal funds and allowing extracurricular activities to be held in its facilities from denying secondary-school students the right to meet for religious and other purposes in public-school facilities. 20 USCA § 4071. • The constitutionality of the Act was upheld in Board
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Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The rules governing civil actions in the U.S. district courts. — Abbr. Fed. R. Civ. P.; FRCP. [Cases: Federal Civil Procedure 31–44. C.J.S. Evidence § 7.] “Chief Justice Hughes in 1935 appointed fourteen lawyers and law teachers as the Advisory Committee for the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, with William
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