Just one in four children in Kentucky is prepared for kindergarten, according to preliminary data presented to the Kentucky Board of Education.
<SHAME> Where is the Separation between Church and State? In private Pocket$
The Florida Board of Education has adopted a new strategic plan that envisions about 17 percent of one-time public school students attending either charters or using taxpayer-funded vouchers to attend private schools by the 2017-18 school year.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com
School officials have formally approved a one-year agreement for evaluating principals in the Los Angeles Unified School District, but the head of the administrators union also asserted that principals will be overburdened by a new teacher-evaluation system.
A San Francisco Unified School District administrator urged teachers to re-evaluate whether to offer summer school to special education students as a way to cut costs, a move that special education teachers and attorneys say violates federal regulations.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s hand-picked choice to head the Chicago public schools, Jean-Claude Brizard, has resigned just three weeks after the end of the city’s first teachers strike in a quarter century.
The State Educational Technology Directors Association has announced the launch of a new online database intended to help policymakers, researchers, corporate and philanthropic investors, and educators keep track of developments in state-level policy directly affecting the realm of educational technology.
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Tag: Law
K12 Administrators Dept. of Ed Family Policy Compliance Office
On October 24, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time, the Department’s Family Policy Compliance Office will present via webinar a basic overview of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). This one-hour presentation will be geared toward local school officials. TO REGISTER, PLEASE GO TO https://educateevents1.webex.com/educateevents1/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=748074727.
Apple Forced to Run Public Apology in 14pt Arial
Apple Forced to Run Public Apology in 14pt Arial
Having lost its appeal against the UK High Court of Justice’s ruling, which decided Samsung’s tablet designs didn’t infringe on the iPad, Apple is being forced to make a public apology.
The best bit? The judge in question has described how it has to do it. Apple will have to post notices on its website, and in newspapers, explaining why it’s sorry. In Arial. With a font size no smaller than 14 pts. Brilliant.
The case in question had previously thrown out Apple’s complaints, when Judge Colin Birss explained that the Galaxy tablets “do not have the same understated and extreme simplicity which is possessed by the Apple design… They are not as cool.” As a result, Biriss judged that consumers were unlikely to confuse the two tablets, meaning that Samsung’s product didn’t infringe on Apple’s registered design. This particular legal battle just keeps getting better.
Jamie Condliffe
http://gizmodo.com/5952790/apple-forced-to-run-public-apology-in-14pt-arial
Court Holds Compensation Committee Had No Duty to Alter Compensation After Failed Say-On-Pay Vote
Court Holds Compensation Committee Had No Duty to Alter Compensation After Failed Say-On-Pay Vote
by Leonard, Street and Deinard – Dodd-Frank and the Jobs Act on 10/9/2012 
[author: Steve Quinlivan]
In 2011, 52% of Dex One Corporation’s shareholders voted against Dex One’s 2010 executive compensation as disclosed in its proxy statement. Plaintiff Brad Haberland subsequently commenced a derivative action claiming, among other things, that Dex One’s directors breached their fiduciary duties when the directors failed to alter or amend the compensation plan after the failed say-on-pay advisory vote.
The United States District Court, E.D. North Carolina, Western Division dismissed the claim. In so doing, the court referred to the plain language of the Dodd-Frank Act which states “The shareholder vote referred to in subsection[] (a),” however, “shall not be binding on the [corporation] or the board of directors of [the corporation], and may not be construed. . . as overruling a decision by such [corporation] or board of directors [,]. . . to create or imply any change to the fiduciary duties of such [corporation] or board of directors[,] . . . [or] to create or imply any additional fiduciary duties for such [corporation] or board of directors. . . .”
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In 2011, 52% of Dex One Corporation’s shareholders voted against Dex One’s 2010 executive compensation as disclosed in its proxy statement. Plaintiff Brad Haberland subsequently commenced a derivative action claiming, among other things, that Dex One’s directors breached their fiduciary duties when the directors failed to alter or amend the compensation plan after the failed say-on-pay advisory vote.
The United States District Court, E.D. North Carolina, Western Division dismissed the claim. In so doing, the court referred to the plain language of the Dodd-Frank Act which states “The shareholder vote referred to in subsection[] (a),” however, “shall not be binding on the [corporation] or the board of directors of [the corporation], and may not be construed. . . as overruling a decision by such [corporation] or board of directors [,]. . . to create or imply any change to the fiduciary duties of such [corporation] or board of directors[,] . . . [or] to create or imply any additional fiduciary duties for such [corporation] or board of directors. . . .”
Check dodd-frank.com frequently for updated information on the JOBS Act, the Dodd-Frank Act and other important securities law matters.