Word: valedictorian
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...high school valedictorian who filed a $2.7 million lawsuit last May to prevent her school from appointing a second student to share her valedictory honors has settled out of court with her New Jersey school district...
...issue at the center of Hornstine’s lawsuit was her high school’s decision to force her to share the title of valedictorian with a fellow student—Kenneth S. Mirkin ’07. Classified as disabled, Hornstine took most of her high school classes from private tutors outside of school. School officials argued that Hornstine’s A-plus grades were won from a skewed playing field...
...federal court judge disagreed in a June ruling, saying that “Ms. Hornstine earned her distinction as the top student in her class in spite of, not because of, her disability.” As a result, Hornstine was named the sole valedictorian at a June graduation she declined to attend...
...misused sources” in five stories she wrote for the paper and had lifted extensive material directly from speeches and papers published on the Internet. The media attention followed her decision to sue the Moorestown, N.J. school system to ensure she graduate as sole valedictorian of her high school. A federal judge ruled in Hornstine’s favor last month and forbid the school district from naming a co-valedictorian...
...preliminary injunction, a federal judge agreed with Hornstine that the school’s decision constituted discrimination, and ordered that she be named sole valedictorian...