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Friday Snippets - 8/01/08 - Water on Mars

By Justin Bathon

Congress has passed a Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. Here is Sen. Mike Enzi on some of the details. The President is expected to sign it. 

A Texas judge changes his mind and orders a new language program for 140,000 language minority students.

Voucher advocates funding Georgia legislators. South Carolina and New York too.

The Indiana Court of Appeals throws out a 3.8 million dollar jury award to the family of a teenager shot inside Gary Community School Corp. and orders a new trial.

Evolution is still on the mind of Kansas State Board of Education candidates.

N.D. Law Review taken over by anti-gay marriage forces? Interesting.

South Dakota's school funding lawsuit set for hearing on Sept. 2.

New Mexico gets a Navajo textbook.

Buses go away in California to deal with the budget nonsense.

N.C. schools are finally tobacco free.

I am no longer at a Party School. Damn.

And, we are hurting here in Kentucky.


Around the Blogosphere:

Mark W. has Gay-Straight Alliance allowed in Florida. And, I think, a smart decision out of Washington State on opening the files of teachers accused of sexual misconduct.

Scott McLeod beat me to a hard hitting post on a school administrator not allowing a student to have long hair. The student is Native American and has never cut his hair in his life.

Mitchell Rubinstein, with a link to the 11th Circuit upholding a Pledge opt-out statute, thinks the Supremes are going to eventually hold that students can be required to recite the pledge. - I might disagree. For one, for the same reason conservatives are especially fond of the Second Amendment and deregulation, there is something distasteful about the government forcing individuals to praise it. Secondly, the "under God" religion issue really complicates it and makes the outcome of such a case much less predictable.

Wrightslaw says you can write on the IEP document.

Jim Gerl has IEP Implementation becoming a hot button issue.

And, Howard Friedman has a Colorado Court supporting an administrator that forced a student to apologize for including unapproved religious references in a graduation speech.

And for your Friday Fun: WATER ON MARS!!! - We are getting closer to proving we were/are not alone in the Universe.



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Full post as published by Edjurist on August 01, 2008 (boomark / email).