Sentences with phrase «lawsuit challenging the way»

[Cuomo said the latest lawsuit challenging the way New York allocates education dollars is flawed because the state spends more money per pupil — on average — than any other state and doesn't get top results.]

There is also a constitutional lawsuit challenging the way the state funds charters, brought by charter parents from Buffalo and Rochester where the disparity is even greater - aptly captioned Brown v. New York.

Not exact matches

The American Center for Law and Justice has amended its lawsuit challenging the Landmarks Preservation Commission's vote on the mosque / Islamic Center near Ground Zero to include Mayor Bloomberg, whom the organization asserts used «political pressure» to clear the way for a project he has very vocally supported.

The largest teachers union in California is preparing for life without forced union membership, as a lawsuit challenging coercive dues makes its way through the legal system.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A federal judge today dismissed a lawsuit challenging New York's groundbreaking subsidies for nuclear plants, clearing the way for three Upstate nukes to continue collecting roughly $ 483 million a year from utility ratepayers.

A key component of the Senate GOP's lawsuit against the prisoner counting change included in the 2010 - 2011 budget is a challenge to the way that switch was made — through a budget extender bill sent to the Legislature by then - Gov.

Half a dozen senators and several private citizens of filed a lawsuit challenging the law pushed through by the Senate Democrats last year that changed the way prisoners are counted for the purposes of redistricting, Senate sources confirm.

This review is somewhat similar to the patent - opposition procedures available in other countries, such as the EPO, and possibly allows for a less costly way of challenging patents than through an inter partes patent reexamination or a lawsuit.

The lawsuit — filed Nov. 14 in the Arizona Supreme Court on behalf of the parents by People for the American Way, a Washington - based advocacy group, and other groups — marks the first time a voucher program for special - needs students has been challenged in court, according to the Institute for Justice, an Arlington, Va. - based legal - advocacy group that will...

A Connecticut school finance lawsuit, filed more than four years ago with the high expectations of 12 towns that were challenging the way the state hands out education dollars, may not even make it to trial.

There have now been a few successful lawsuits brought to challenge various versions of these tests, with rulings centering on tenuous connections between the skills being tested and those necessary to do the job.120 To address some of these underlying concerns, the TeachNY Advisory Council, supported by a grant from the New York State Department of Education, drafted policy recommendations in May 2016 around teacher preparation recruitment, selection, and cultural competence in the hopes of finding ways to improve teacher quality and diversity.121

The new lawsuit challenging the Arizona Empowerment Scholarship Account program claims the program violates the same constitutional provisions used to strike down the previous voucher programs — specifically, that they don't offer choice beyond a private school option — but Empowerment Accounts differ from these earlier programs in important and constitutionally relevant ways.

The views of teachers in the survey offer a path to compromise, «a «third way» between reformer calls to throw out all teacher job protections and old - guard calls to preserve virtually all elements of the current system,» Teach Plus, which has called for changing the laws challenged in the Vergara lawsuit, said in its summary of the teacher survey.

For the third time in three years, a lawsuit has been filed in California that challenges the way the teachers unions do business.

Returning the school to financial health and restoring free tuition «is going to take a dramatic change in the way Cooper Union is run, therefore Bharucha has to go,» said Richard Emery, a lawyer who is representing a group of faculty, alumni and students called the Committee to Save Cooper Union in a lawsuit challenging the tuition.

Texas, West Virginia, and 22 other states have filed a lawsuit to challenge an Obama Administration rule that opponents say radically restructures the way electricity is produced and consumed in the United States.

Lawyer Monthly is delighted to once again have the opportunity to acknowledge leading industry experts who have overcome the legal challenges involved in their role and contributed to the legal sector in a tremendous way; not only have these experts reached the pinnacle of their professional career, but they also use their expertise to help solve all - important lawsuits.