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...Justices struck a blow for private schools Thursday by upholding a Cleveland, Ohio voucher policy. The program allows taxpayer money earmarked for substandard public schools to follow students who transfer to private or charter schools - even if those schools are religious in nature. The majority determined the program does not violate the constitutional separation of church and state, because it does not dictate which schools can receive the funding, but simply creates opportunities for students to get a better education at any school. Those who oppose the program argue that religious schools take advantage of the program far more than...
CASV members have long argued that Harvard’s resources for victims of sexual assault are substandard when compared to what is available to students at other Ivy League institutions...
...advising system remains woeful. Students in search of academic guidance are stymied by vast bureaucracies, often struggling to find a friendly face to whom they can turn for sound advice. Both House and departmental advising standards are patchy and inconsistent, leaving many students short-changed with substandard advisors. Improving the quality of advising should be one of the top priorities for the administration next year, and, in particular, for the new dean of undergraduate education...
...Story Professor of Law Dan Meltzer tells residents of Agassiz at community meetings, student groups at HLS are forced to meet in “pretty substandard space,” often in hallways, because there simply are no rooms for them...
...result of deplorable conditions in which many black and brown immigrants and citizens are forced to live. Arriving primarily from France’s former colonies and often channeled into low-skilled, low-paying industrial or domestic jobs, these people of African and Arab descent face substandard housing, high unemployment rates, poor schools, inadequate public facilities, police brutality, hate crimes and a host of other obstacles. They are clustered in banlieues, poor working class suburbs that ring the country’s major cities. Constantly faced with anti-immigrant bias and unemployment rates well over 50 percent, many young Africans...