Religion & Law

Cal. charter schools eye windfall
The LA Daily News reports: “State funding to build new charter schools would increase sixfold in four years - to more than $100million - under a clause tucked into a larger bill that has won strong support from traditional charter-school opponents...

NJ: New charter school the pride of Camden
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports: According to a National Alliance for Public Charter Schools study of districts with over 10,000 students, in the 2006-2007 school year Camden with 13 percent of its students in charter schools joined Philadelphia as one of the top 10 of districts nationally with the highest charter participation...

Influential Philanthropist Backing New Hebrew Language Charter School In NY
The Forward reported this week that "mega-philanthropist" Michael Steinhardt is backing a group of individuals who plan to file an application in New York City to create a Hebrew Language Academy Charter School in Brooklyn...

Section 24(2) of the Charter: A legal fiction
In the mind of this Charter aficionado, the most significant recent development in Charter history is the Ontario Court of Appeal decision that effectively renders s. 24(2), the exclusion of unconstitutionally obtained evidence that could bring the administration of justice into disrepute provision, virtually non-existent...

Charter School Challenge: Striking the Balance
Following the controversy surrounding the city's Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy charter school (previous posts here and here), today's Minneapolis Star-Tribune hosts a conversation among some charter school administrators about the challenges of balancing their schools' cultural focus with church-state concerns...

Canadian Constitutional Law #25: Application of the Charter and Charter Standing
Whose behaviour is bound by the Charter? Sec 32 tells us it applies to government (as opposed to private actors), but in practice this is more difficult to define than it would seem...

Federal Transportation Equity Act of 2005
Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users

Military Veterans Benefits, Part 4
Where to get help

Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century
TEA-21 - Plus Law 105-178

Charter Cable
Faces Class Action for Unlicensed Workers

Bush Administration
class action settlement ensures Medicaid beneficiaries can continue to purchase prescription drugs at minimum cost when they become eligible for Medicare.

KeyBank USA
alleging the bank offered loans for fraudulent vocational schools.

Kamehameha Schools
$7 million non-native Hawaiian racial discrimination settlement.

Department of Homeland Security, FBI, and Social Security Administration
allegedly denied social security insurance to disabled and elderly immigrants.