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...person could disagree with the fact that all children deserve to be taught by “highly qualified” professionals, the supposed uncontroversial nature of the provision is undercut by the difficulty of evaluating intangible factors that determine whether a teacher is highly qualified.The neutrality of the provision??s assumptions “are especially problematic in rural schools,” Karen Eppley argues in the 2009 Journal of Research in Rural Education. While logistical challenges of rural schooling make the provision problematic in rural areas to begin with, Eppley argues that greater issues result...
...awards bonuses to managers individually based on value added to the endowment above specified market benchmarks; it subjects bonuses to a “claw-back provision?? that allows the University to take back the bonuses if funds perform below these market benchmarks at later dates...
...aims to protect U.S. seaports, but at the last minute, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Act (UIGA) was appended. The provision??which bars banks from transferring money to online gambling sites—shuffles the rules, cuts loopholes, and deals a bad hand to internet cardholders everywhere...
...legislation renews many of the original act’s provisions that would have been better left to die, including, obviously, the passage that allows the government to obtain these “tangible items” (such as business, medical, and library records) in the first place. This provision??arguably the centerpiece of the Patriot Act—allows the government to conduct searches upon the basis of “reasonable necessity” without the knowledge of those being searched. Though defenders of the provision call it an “expansion?...
Lani Guinier, Harvard Law School (HLS) Boskey Professor of Law and the first black woman tenured at HLS, urged blacks in the audience to “take control of your environment” and to confront issues such as the lack of a constitutional provision??as opposed to just an amendment—that grants all citizens the right to vote...