Janet Decker (PhD, JD)
Program Coordinator, Education Policy and Law, Indiana University
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Author and editor focused on special education legal and policy issues
Served on the Education Law Association’s board of directors
Inducted into IU’s Faculty Academy on Excellence in Teaching
Recipient of IU’s Trustees Teaching Award
Janet Decker, PhD, JD, is an associate professor and program coordinator of education policy and law at Indiana University. Her areas include special education legal and policy issues and legal literacy of school leaders and educators.
She has published two books: The Legal Rights of School Leaders, Teachers, and Students, 8th ed. and How to Prevent Special Education Litigation: Eight Legal Lesson Plans. As a legal columnist for NASSP’s Principal Leadership, she ensures that legal information is accessible to educators. Her research has appeared in Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy and West’s Education Law Reporter, among many other publications.
Discovering that systemic inequities often led to problematic litigation motivated her to earn a law degree from IU’s Maurer School of Law and a PhD in education policy studies from IU’s School of Education.
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