Word: districters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Does anyone really think that members of Congress, who routinely pillage billions of tax dollars for post offices and bridges in their own districts, will shy away from influencing the direction of this huge investment windfall? And even if they are not so crass as to pick a shipbuilding company in their district, they will be issuing every conceivable ideological litmus test for these investments...
...grade-schoolers' homework load that he exacted a pledge from their teachers not to lower his kids' grades if they didn't do assignments. When the kids found themselves lost in class discussions, Kooyman reluctantly allowed them to do the homework, but he is planning to sue the school district for violating his civil rights. "They have us hostage to homework," he grumbles. "I'm 47, and I have 25-year-old teachers telling me what to do with my home life...
...Davises did not let the matter rest. They hauled the boy into juvenile court, where he pleaded guilty to battery. Then they sued the school district in a case that last week made its way to the Supreme Court. Facing the high court for the first time is the issue of whether schools should be held liable when students sexually harass other students. At stake are $500,000 in damages and some difficult questions: Where does childish misbehavior end and sexual harassment begin? Should courts and judges be meddling in an area in which parents and educators have traditionally held...
Even knottier is the question of whether school districts should be made more liable than they are in state courts, where rulings tend to spark change only in the offending district. A 1993 survey by the American Association of University Women found that 30% of girls and nearly 20% of boys are harassed often, leading Davis advocates to argue that the problem is systemic and needs the widespread changes likely to follow a federal precedent...
...changes would be significant if they reflected the difference made in individual districts by state rulings. Raul Ugarte, a parent in Antioch, Calif., sued his school district five years ago after it refused to take action against a boy who was sexually harassing and threatening to kill his fifth-grade daughter Tianna. Ugarte won a $450,000 judgment, and the school district fired the superintendent...