Republican-controlled legislatures in half a dozen states are taking up measures that would ban or limit the teaching of critical race theory in public schools, a new front in the culture wars that is likely to expand far more broadly in the coming years.
Idaho Gov. Brad Little (R) earlier this year became the first to sign legislation to withhold funding from schools that compel students to adopt viewpoints that are “often found in critical race theory.”
The Texas state Senate has passed similar legislation. The Tennessee state House advanced its own version through an education committee this week. And legislators in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Arizona are working on bills that would impact the curriculum in public schools in their own backyards.
The sorry state of California s prisons
Washington Post has this extended article describing the crisis condition of California s prison system. Here is how it begins:
This is what conditions are like at one of California s best prisons, the California Rehabilitation Center: Built to hold 1,800 inmates, it now bulges with more than 4,700 and is under nearly constant lockdown to prevent fights. Portions of the buildings, which date to the 1920s, are so antiquated that the electricity is shut off during rainstorms so the prisoners aren t electrocuted. The facility s once-vaunted drug rehab program has a three-month-long waiting list, and the prison is short 75 guards.
Biden administration should not reject current Title IX rules on sexual harassment: Sarah R. Cole
Updated Apr 11, 2021;
Posted Apr 11, 2021
In a guest column today, Sarah R. Cole, the Michael E. Moritz Chair in Alternative Dispute Resolution at the Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State University, urges the Biden administration not to discard current Title IX rules that allow informal dispute resolution via mediation and other techniques for campus sexual harassment complaints.
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By Guest Columnist, cleveland.com
COLUMBUS, Ohio Sexual harassment on college campuses is a major problem. Title IX is a federal statute requiring colleges to create a process to address student sexual misconduct allegations.
Shantale Davis (left) and Ashlei McPherson, both first-year law students, pictured in front of the J. David Rosenberg College of Law. Photo submitted.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 16, 2021) University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law students Shantale Davis and Ashlei McPherson, both first-year law students, placed first in the 2021 Law Student Diversity Virtual Case Competition hosted by Cincinnati-based law firm Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL in partnership with the University of Cincinnati College of Law’s Center for Professional Development.
Davis and McPherson took home $3,000 as the first-place team. They competed against students from six other law schools, including the second-place team from Ohio State University s Moritz College of Law and the third-place team from University of Cincinnati College of Law.