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Calif. judge to school district: Count signatures on charter petition

By By The Associated Press

COMPTON, Calif. ? A Superior Court judge has ruled that the Compton Unified School District violated parents' First Amendment rights by imposing an onerous signature-verification process on a disputed parent petition for a charter school. On March 21, Judge Anthony J. Mohr ordered administrators to count the signatures by April 1 over the objections of the district, which had argued that the school board rejected the petition over technicalities. Mohr said the verification process that the d read more

Full post as published by First Amendment Center on March 22, 2011 (boomark / email).