An abbreviated version of the Snippets this week as I was mostly out of town:
The Arizona House votes to opt out of NCLB.
The CA Homeschooling case goes up on appeal.
Michigan anti-bullying bill stalls because of inclusion of anti-bullying protections in model state policy for homosexual students.
State constitutional issues are hot in NH (finance issue) and in Florida (pushing vouchers).
The Maine Legislature passed a fairly extensive school consolidation law, but it might be vetoed by the Governor.
Mark Yudof to UC
is official (for about $600,000 plus perks - kind of makes you want to
consider the administrative track in higher ed. doesn't it).
Kentucky doesn't have a lot of good options for dealing with the budget shortfall (NPR Audio) - Grrrreat (rolling eyes).
The other side of bullying litigation - private suits against individual bulliers. (ABA Journal)
Congress is giving record earmarks to higher ed. (I got a few things you can earmark for me if any of you Congressmen are interested).
And around the ed. law blogosphere:
Jim Gerl is soliciting thoughts and experiences on regular ed. teacher inclusion in the IEP team after the IDEA '04 Amendments.
Karl Romberger has a post on the new proposed FERPA regulations.
Mark also has a story up on the Supreme's grant of cert. to Pearson v. Callahan, a case on qualified immunity.
David Hoff's close reading finds that Condi is working for George W. because of NCLB.
Pamela Parker at Texas Teacher Law has some advice for teachers when there are overactive parents.
Mitchell Rubinstein has thoughts on the new anti-bullying workplace laws being proposed in some states, as well as thoughts on the new law school rankings (1) (2) (3)
(Mitchell thinks law students should look at additional factors -
personally, I think they shouldn't look at the rankings at all but
instead look at the data for themselves in the ABA-LSAC Guide to Approved Law Schools).
Kevin Carey at The Quick and the Ed. makes a great point which I agree with: Technically, the Department of Ed. is breaking the law with the new 10 state pilot program. But, lucky for them, no one complains.
Alexander Russo, who was also at AERA, makes the point that the media are just not digesting education research and rightly says that both sides, the journalists and the researchers, need to do better and that blogs can play an important role
in the improvement of this relationship. (Perhaps I will try to
integrate more summaries of ed. law scholarly research into the blog in
the future).
I met John Becker from Ed. Insanity ... finally ... he an I sat in on a cool session on cyberbullying, which we both offered comments on, after which he saw cool people & NORM from Cheers (I am jealous, I didn't get to meet anyone famous, well, except Jon Becker).
And in tribute to my week in NY: New York, New York.