Sentences with phrase «suit against the school»

But in the past year, parents in two other counties, Carter and Claiborne, have brought federal suits against the school districts and a fundamentalist Christian organization, contending that such classes are unconstitutional.

State anti-bullying laws do not allow you to file a suit against a school district for violating those laws.

In response to the resignation, The organization Save Cooper Union — a non-profit headed by school professors, alumni and students who filed suit against the school in 2014 — released the following statement:

What's most interesting to me is that the parents who couldn't afford a lawyer to represent them in a suit against the school district have now secured able representation by Jean - Claude Andre free of charge.

Some students have even contacted local law firms to discuss filing suit against the school.

In this wrongful death suit against a school board for a bus accident that killed a four - year - old child, the trial court erred in in ordering that the separate awards to the child's two minor brothers be held by the clerk...

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Silver's attorney suggested that Taub's referrals — which were to a number of firms in addition to Weitz — were done in the most altruistic manner, and noted that he'd fought to retain his tenured position at Columbia despite being removed in the wake of Silver's arrest, because — as he said in his suit against the university that brought a temporary injunction against the school — he believed he had done nothing wrong.

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 state Appellate Division — which ruled in March that state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's fraud suit can go forward against Donald Trump's defunct «school» and the candidate himself — granted Trump permission to appeal its ruling to the state Court of Appeals.

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.

UTAG's request for the constitution of Governing Councils followed a suit by private citizen, Supt. Kofi Kwayera against the University of Education, Winneba, and the Education Ministry over the unlawful extension of the school's Governing Council's tenure.

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

Manhattan's appellate division unanimously tossed her 2015 suit against the Department of Education that demanded air - conditioned school buses for disabled kids.

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.

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

The speech outlined Mr. Stringer's first year in office — touting audits that uncovered waste in the New York City Housing Authority and city schools, his efforts to bring more transparency and open elections to the boards of major corporations, and his ClaimStat program to track suits against the city.

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.

A federal judge has ended an 18 - year - old desegregation suit against the Lowndes County, Ala., schools, after declaring further efforts at integration pointless since the overwhelming majority of students in the district now are black.

The Florida legislature's Miami delegation has been thwarted in its attempt to bar its local school board from using public money to pay for its legal battle against a voting - rights suit.

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.

A suit may be brought against a school for not adhering to the public interest (such as not admitting a proper portion of students from low income backgrounds) or to its claim of how it plans to meet the public interest.

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.

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...

In the end, the NEA and the nine school districts that have taken this legal plunge face a difficult task to show that they are the right plaintiffs to bring this suit, at this time, against this agency.

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

The first organization was the Council for Better Education, Inc. (CBE), a coalition of school districts that first brought an adequacy suit against the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the late 1980s and then for a second time in 2003.

The suit — against the Yonkers, N.Y., school district and state education officials — was brought by a high - school girl who wants to play on her school's football team.

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.

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.

In Ohio, the long - running DeRolph suit is closed to further litigation, and in their federal suit, the unions will be going headlong against San Antonio School District v. Rodriguez (1973), in which the Supreme Court declined to invalidate educational inequalities resulting from reliance on the local property tax.

A coalition of school districts in Kentucky has announced plans to file suit against the state within three weeks, in what it calls the «last chance» to achieve equal funding among school systems in that state.

Washington — Amid strong signals that the Reagan Administration is hardening its opposition to busing for school desegregation, the naacp Legal Defense and Education Fund has asked a federal judge for permission to intervene in the U.S. Justice Department's desegregation suit against the Charleston County, S.C., public schools.

The ACLU filed a federal suit last year against the Vermilion Parish school district on behalf of an unnamed parent whose daughters were placed in single - sex classes at Rene A. Rost Middle Sschool district on behalf of an unnamed parent whose daughters were placed in single - sex classes at Rene A. Rost Middle SchoolSchool.

The establishment forces aligned against reform filed suit in King County Superior Court July 3 to block the charter school law approved by the voters last November.

Two of the schools who saw their funding decrease have filed suit against the Orleans Parish School Board.

SITLA, in accordance with the 1971 WH&B Act, originally filed suit in federal district court against BLM on February 3, 2015, for failure to remove wild horses from school section lands held in trust by the State of Utah.

Rocketship lost a lawsuit contesting the County's zoning exemption of the Tamien site, and to make matters worse, four local school districts (including Alum Rock) filed suit against Rocketship's petition to open 20 new schools.

The Connecticut Parents Union, for example, has helped Marie Menard, file suit against the Stratford school district after it charged her with what can laughingly be called stealing education for allowing her daughter to claim her home as a residence for her two grandchildren in order to avoid sending them to failure mills.

But this week, after one of Raleigh's most outspoken school choice backers, former state lawmaker Marcus Brandon, suggested charter leaders file a class - action suit against every county in North Carolina over funding, leaders on both sides seem farther apart than ever.

Sacramento, CA - March 8, 2016 - The California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) filed suit today against the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) to obtain a court order requiring OUSD to comply with Proposition 39, a California law passed in 2000 that requires school districts to share facilities equitably with all public school students, including charter public school stuSchool District (OUSD) to obtain a court order requiring OUSD to comply with Proposition 39, a California law passed in 2000 that requires school districts to share facilities equitably with all public school students, including charter public school stuschool districts to share facilities equitably with all public school students, including charter public school stuschool students, including charter public school stuschool students.

Ravenscroft hasn't implemented this feature, which seems better suited to public or charter school systems that must adhere to local or national standards and track their progress against government benchmarks.

Eleven years ago, the Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding (CCJEF) brought a suit against the state of Connecticut charging that the state's school funding formula had been so corrupted that it violated Connecticut's Constitution by failing to provide cities and towns with sufficient state aid to ensure that every child received a proper public education.