Education and school law cover the laws and regulations that govern federal and state education, including the administration and operation of educational institutions, school athletics, instruction methods, programs, and materials. This area of law encompasses issues relating to school faculty, staff, and students, including school discipline and discrimination based on race, color, national original, sex, or disability.
Special education law refers to the laws and regulations that govern the teaching of students with special needs. These needs may be learning or physical disabilities, behavioral problems, talents, or academic aptitude that cannot be satisfied in a regular classroom.
Mansura is a town in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,573 at the 2000 census. Mansura is home to the Cochon de Lait Festival, and is the Cochon de Lait Capital of the world. Legendary Avoyelles Parish Sheriff F.O. "Potch" Didier died in 2007 in a nursing home in Mansura at the age of eighty-seven.