Teacher Speech Inside and Outside of Classrooms in the United States: Understanding the First Amendment

Suzanne Eckes and Charles J. Russo
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Suzanne Eckes: Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53711, USA
Charles J. Russo: School of Education and Health Sciences and Research, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH 45469, USA

Laws, 2021, vol. 10, issue 4, 1-13

Abstract: Concerns often arise about the First Amendment rights of public school educators in the United States both inside and outside of their classrooms. As such, after setting the legal context, we analyze teachers’ free speech rights in a variety of settings. In order to do so, we discuss illustrative cases analyzing the legal landscape of teachers’ free expressions rights in U.S. public schools. The purpose of this article is to provide a brief overview highlighting Supreme Court cases and selected opinions from lower courts involving teacher speech impact the expressive rights of educators in public schools rather than serve as a comprehensive analysis of all such speech cases.

Keywords: employee speech; expression; First Amendment; education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D78 E61 E62 F13 F42 F68 K0 K1 K2 K3 K4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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