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Despite the proliferation of such programs, few school districts will admit to a violence problem--and certainly not at the kindergarten level. Philadelphia is a rare exception. "We aggressively report serious incidents regardless of the age of the child," says Paul Vallas, CEO of Philadelphia's schools, which serve 214,000 students. This year the largely poor urban district has already had 19 reports of weapons possession and 42 assaults by kids in kindergarten or first grade. Last year at the McDaniel elementary school alone, there were 21 assaults in the first two months of school, including...
...every school district in America is besieged by kamikaze kindergartners, but those who see a problem believe they are witnessing the result of a number of social trends that have come together in a most unfortunate way. Many cite economic stress, which has parents working longer hours than ever before, kids spending more time in day care and everyone coming home too exhausted to engage in the kind of relationships that build social skills. "Kids aren't getting enough lap time," says Karen Bentley, a seasoned elementary school administrator in Miami, who sees increased aggression in young students...
...introduce that would require hospitals treating illegal aliens to report them to authorities for deportation. The Medicare legislation reimburses hospitals for the $1.45 billion they spend annually caring for illegal immigrants who can't pay. That's "a huge drain of our resources," complains Rohrabacher, whose Southern California district has a high number of illegals. Diverting money from "the American people and legal residents in order to provide a health-care system for people who come here illegally is the most stupid thing I can think...
Moreover, the constitutional claims have been rejected both by the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) and by U.S. District Judge John C. Lifland who, in denying plaintiffs’ request for a preliminary injunction, shot down its basic free speech argument in very strong language. Lifland found that the Solomon statue “does not directly target speech…discriminate on the basis of viewpoint;” that its “interference with speech and other protected rights is incidental;” and that “law schools cannot ‘erect...
Given the clear and strident opposition that has been voiced, even at this level, to the constitutional challenge, it is time to look to other legal avenues for challenging Solomon. The District of Columbia’s Human Rights Act (HRA)—the strongest civil rights law in the country—provides an alternative or additional legal avenue that could be much more promising and would have implications nationwide. Rather than seeking to strike down a federal statute on constitutional grounds, something judges are very reluctant to do, an HRA-based challenge, which can be brought whether...