Sentences with phrase «despite academic criticism»

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After months of revisions and rewriting, the Missouri state school board has adopted 75 new academic standards despite criticism that they give too much power to the state and are still too vague.

That, despite widespread criticism of at least one of the two companies, K12 Inc., which, last year, reportedly settled a $ 168 million lawsuit with the state of California over allegations that it misled state leaders over academics and attendance in order to guzzle more public cash.

This obiter comment has been the subject of significant academic criticism, on the bases, inter alia, that it artificially sought to create a further exception to the without prejudice role in the field of discrimination; and that it ran contrary to the case law, such as Fincken, which made clear that the unambiguous impropriety exception should be confined to very tight parameters, despite Ofolue making clear that the categories of exceptions to the rule were not closed.