Sentences with phrase «schools filed suit»

In response, a coalition of charter schools filed suit against the district.

This past July, the D.C. Association of Chartered Public Schools filed suit in federal district court claiming that the District of Columbia has been underfunding charter schools in violation of the U.S. Constitution and federal law.

Travelers and the boarding school filed a suit against an interior landscape company alleging shoddy workmanship that resulted in 5,000 lights installed and connected to an overloaded three - outlet electrical adapter which caused the velvet skirt, packages underneath the tree, and the 25 - foot - tall artificial evergreen to burst into flames.

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But Mercer Bullard, professor of law at the University of Mississippi Law School and founder of Fund Democracy, an advocacy group for mutual fund shareholders, told ThinkAdvisor on Thursday that «the plaintiffs have hurt their cause by delaying» filing a suit until now.»

Ms. Pao, a graduate of Princeton University, Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, is married to Alphonse Fletcher Jr., a prominent Wall Street investor who has filed discrimination suits in the past.

Detroit school students, represented by the Los Angeles - based public interest firm Public Counsel, filed suit last month against the state of Michigan, claiming a legal right to literacy based on the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

State and federal courts and mediators are dealing with hundreds of Native American land claims, and indigenous tribes in the U.S. and Canada have filed suits demanding reparations for various crimes, such as the abuse of students in parochial and government - run schools.

The Illinois school joins Catholic counterparts Catholic University and the University of Notre Dame in filing suits to stop a Health and Human Services mandate to provide birth control coverage to their employees.

She says in the suit filed Friday that she was discriminated against in 2011 after the school's pastor found out that she had begun treatments with a fertility doctor, according to the complaint.

Buffalo, NY (WBEN)- As Buffalo School Board member Carl Paladino is planning to file suit against fellow school board members, for conspiring against his freedom of speech, a stakeholder group is calling for complete receiveSchool Board member Carl Paladino is planning to file suit against fellow school board members, for conspiring against his freedom of speech, a stakeholder group is calling for complete receiveschool board members, for conspiring against his freedom of speech, a stakeholder group is calling for complete receivership.

The Utica City School District settled a lawsuit over its treatment of young refugees, who, the suit filed last year by NYCLU charged, were being excluded from the city's lone high school because of their age and because they did not speak EnSchool District settled a lawsuit over its treatment of young refugees, who, the suit filed last year by NYCLU charged, were being excluded from the city's lone high school because of their age and because they did not speak Enschool because of their age and because they did not speak English.

A number of organizations have joined together to file this suit, including the state PTA, the state School Boards Association, the state Council of School Superintendents, the Rural Schools Association, the Statewide School Finance Consortium, and others.

The whistleblower in an alleged conspiracy to block low - income and minority kids from enrolling in a popular Riverdale, Bronx, elementary school has filed suit against a politician — Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz — who he claims targeted him for coming forward.

The mother of slain Brentwood High School teen Kayla Cuevas has filed a $ 110 million federal suit against the Brentwood schools saying the district failed to protect her daughter against MS - 13 gang members and ignored warnings about repeated threats to the girl.

The media outlets filed the suit after Sheriff Scott Israel publicly described footage that showed a school resource deputy did not enter Building 12 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High to engage the shooter during the Feb. 14 attack.

In July, United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew filed the a lawsuit to stop 11 charter school co-locations, and on December 27th, New York City Public Advocate Letitia James filed a suit to stop an additional 19 charter school co-locations.

Similar suits are slated to be filed against the Syracuse school district and the state by the Albany - based Government Justice Center.

Eight private charter schools are filing suit in State Supreme Court against the New York State Public High School Athletic Association over requirements that make student athletes sit out a season after transferring.

The lawsuit includes 15 schools the United Federation of Teachers and the NAACP saved last year when they filed a similar suit against the Department of Education, arguing that the city had failed to provide enough community feedback.

UFT representatives filed suit in Manhattan State Supreme Court today to prevent the Charter Schools Committee of the State University of New York from creating a new and less rigorous set of certification standards for some of the state's charter sSchools Committee of the State University of New York from creating a new and less rigorous set of certification standards for some of the state's charter schoolsschools.

«Why aren't they filing suit against Cuomo for shortchanging local schools for funding by $ 9 billion?

In August, almost 200 parents filed suit to remove five Orthodox members of the school board, claiming that the board materially - assisted private religious schools by providing them with books and programs.

The UFT and the Council of School Supervisors & Administrators on May 7 filed suit in New York State Supreme Court to prevent the «sham» closing and restaffing of 24 schools that would be reopened almost immediately in the same buildings and with the same students.

Dover High School's science teachers balked at the order, and 11 parents filed suit against the board for trying to impose religion on their kids.

Several groups, led by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE), a nonprofit legal advocacy organization, filed suit in 1993 claiming that New York State was depriving New York City public school students of their constitutional rights to a «sound basic education,» a standard that had been prescribed in 1982 by the state's highest court (in New York, the Court of Appeals).

A bill that requires Tennessee's public schools to set aside one minute at the beginning of the school day for «meditation, or prayer, or personal beliefs» has been signed into law by Gov. Lamar Alexander, but the American Civil Liberties Union (aclu) of Tennessee intends to file suit shortly on the grounds that the law is in violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

The case against the Lowndes County public schools began in 1973 when the U.S. Justice Department filed suit in an effort to better integrate the school system's white and black students.

The suit, filed this month, charges that Learnfare is discriminatory because the method for recording attendance varies among the state's school districts.

The Sequoia Union High School District in Redwood City, California (one of the wealthiest in the state), filed suit in May 2002 in San Mateo County Superior Court to stop Aurora Charter High School from receiving its fair share — either in the form of rent money or buildings — of the $ 88 million bond measure that Sequoia passed in 2001.

The UTLA filed suit in December to block the mayor's entire charter - and - choice program, even as the union helped some teachers to develop school bids.

State lawmakers in their recent legislative session pulled off a comprehensive rewrite of North Dakota's K - 12 funding legislation, averting a legal battle with nine school districts that had filed suit saying they were being illegally shortchanged of aid.

The suit, filed in 1989, alleged that district officials intentionally discriminated against black students by building several new schools in predominantly white sections of the Las Vegas Valley while building none on the city's heavily black west side.

The court, acting on a suit filed by the city's school board, ruled on Nov. 6 that the state should immediately pay the school district $ 24 million and...

A Wisconsin school district filed suit last week in a move to prevent state Superintendent John T. Benson from overriding its decision to expel a 16 - year - old boy who had made a bomb threat.

St. Louis's desegregation case dates from 1972, when Minnie Liddell, a black parent, filed suit against the St. Louis school board contending that her children were receiving an inferior education in a predominantly black city school.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People had filed a suit against the state department of education and the district in late August to prevent the dispersal to several other schools of students from the James Lick Middle School, which was one of 18 schools targeted for increased funding and special academic...

Current practice often strays from the state constitution's requirement that property be assessed at its full market value, said Wayne Blanton, executive director of the Florida School Boards Association, which filed the suit last month in a Tallahassee circuit court along with the Palm Beach and Sarasota school distSchool Boards Association, which filed the suit last month in a Tallahassee circuit court along with the Palm Beach and Sarasota school distschool districts.

State officials said they had sought a statewide order from the single court so that each school board in the state would not have the expense of filing an individual suit.

The suit, filed on behalf of Beatriz Vergara, a Los Angeles high school student, and eight other public school students, claims that the law protects poor - performing teachers assigned to working with low - income, minority children.

The department offered the compromise to the Bridgeport Baptist and Sheridan Road Baptist schools, which filed suit in 1980 challenging a law that requires private schools to employ only certified teachers.

The Committee for Public Education and Religious Liberty, in a statement explaining the suit filed late last month, charges that mobile vans, leased facilities, and «segregated classrooms in public schools» are unconstitutional means of providing remedial services for religious - school students.

The agreement in the suit, filed four years ago, was signed this month by U.S. District Judge Tom Lee and representatives of the school board, the n.a.a.c.p., and the U.S. Department of Justice.

The Georgia parents filed a federal suit against the 102,000 - student Cobb County district in an attempt to remove a sticker that is being affixed to textbooks for some middle and high school science classes.

The Arizona Supreme Court ruled that vouchers violated the state constitution in 2009, and the union and state school boards» association filed suit against education savings accounts shortly after Gov. Jan Brewer signed them into law.

That tension was exposed by a 2010 suit filed by Rowland Unified School District, a 13 - square - mile sliver of Los Angeles County with 15,000 students and an API of 807, against Walnut Valley Unified, a neighboring nine - square - mile slice with 15,000 students and a 909 API.

A Texas high - school teacher who was fired over her alleged sexual involvement with a student who later committed suicide has filed a $ 400,000 slander suit against her accusers.

Philadelphia — Final arguments in a highly publicized suit filed by three girls seeking admission to Philadelphia's all - male Central High School concluded last week in Common Pleas Court here after a bevy of opposing experts testified on the alleged strengths and weaknesses of single - sex education.

The suit was filed April 20 in Marion County Superior Court on behalf of a group of students and their families from different school districts.

The suit against the state education department was filed late last month by the parents of two pupils in Roman Catholic schools, with the backing of the Catholic Conference of Kentucky.

UTNO filed suit the next day to force the district to reopen more schools.