US District Judge Sharon Blackburn intervened with Alabama's immigration law just three days before the law was supposed to take effect on the 1st of September (All Headline News). The law, which allows the police to detain traffic offenders if they believe they are illegal immigrants, requires employers to use E-verify to ensure that all of their workers are legal citizens, requires schools to ensure the immigration status of all of their students, and makes it illegal to give a ride or house an illegal immigrant (Johnson). ... Opponents of the law argue that by requiring schools to ch...

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On June 1, 2015, Governor Greg Abbott signed the "campus carry" law which will allow licensed gun owners to carry concealed handguns on college campuses. ... This year has brought us unfortunate violent crimes on school campuses, which leads many pro-gun activists to suggested that both the students and teachers should be allowed to carry concealed weapons on campus. ... This is a very controversial topic, especially during this time when there have been several school shooting in the past years. ...

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In today's high schools, too many innocent youths become fatalities due to gang warfare that has spread into the school system. ... Uniforms chosen by the school can provide students with a school identity. ... In 1988, the Supreme Court expanded on the special nature of First Amendment law surrounding the public elementary and secondary schools. In Hazelwood School District vs. ... According to the lawsuits, the school districts did not follow the state law that require districts to give parents the option of allowing their children to wear uniforms. ...

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"Sharia Law is Coming to America,"" is the headline of today's newspaper. ... As law permitted, they crushed his whole arm under a moving truck. ... "This happened to Tina Isa, a high school student, murdered at the age of 16 for having a boyfriend. ... If all 50 states does not ban foreign law, one state will become like the UK. ... Don't lose your freedom; stop Sharia law from coming to America!...

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Currently all 50 states have either a law enacted or are proposing Megan's Law which requires the registration of all people convicted sexual crimes because sex offenders are more prone to re-offend and it assists in protecting the public. The law requires the registration if convicted of a sex offense or certain types of kidnapping and the various laws that require registration. ... Megan's Law authorizes the local law enforcement to notify the public about serious sex offenders and convicted kidnappers that reside, are employed, or frequently visit the community. ... Currently a...

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There has been in increase of bullying in schools and certain state laws take bullying to the extreme. ... Children getting bullied everyday in schools has become a serious issue for law makers. ... School boards have the final decision in any laws or policies that are made for their school. Right now the law states that every school must have a policy for student safety. ... By adding the word bullying to the law, it allows schools to now have the policy where no child should be bullied at school. ...

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Immigrants to the United States have played an important role in the implementation of laws and the overall reshaping of our government. ... This regulation of education required for private schools to still be in existence as well as the mandating that all children were in some sort of school environment whether it be home, public, or private schooling. ... In 1975, a statue revision to an education law in Texas authorized districts to deny enrollment to students who were not legal citizens. ... Case Details In the case of Plyler v Doe, the plaintiffs were individuals from Mexico who claime...

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The Law and Me (Affirmative Action In Colleges) In 1964 and 1965 President Johnson signed the Civil Rites acts, and these acts included affirmative action. ... Powell, Jr., agreed, casting the deciding vote ordering the medical school to admit Bakke. ... The problem is the, "Use of affirmative action to increase minority enrollment at its law school"(www.nytimes.com). ... Prop 209 was one of the first laws to work against affirmative action. ... Finally affirmative action is still keeping qualified people out of graduate schools. ...

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School sponsored prayer in public schools should not be allowed because it violates the United States Constitution.? ... Therefore, any and all federal laws apply to public schools. On this basis, one can clearly identify that the introduction of school-sponsored prayer in to public schools, in any form, is in direct violation of federal law in many ways. The doctrine of the first amendment states, thatCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion?? ... In the end the Supreme Court has ruled school-sponsored prayer in public schools to be unconstitutional and there is...

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As a young boy in middle school, I was thrust into thinking about guns and their effects. On the last day of school in seventh grade, I had to think about things a 12 shouldn't have to deal with. ... While gun control laws may decrease criminals access to guns, the same laws restrict law-abiding citizens. ... Laws making handguns illegal would effect criminals, because by definition, they don't abide by laws. ... The new fad, as horrible as it is, is to bring guns to school. ...

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Monday, March 5, 2001, Charles "Andy" Williams, a student of Santana High School, went on a killing spree. ... He took his father's .22 caliber revolver and went to school with it. ... On December 14, 2012, Sandy Hook Elementary School took on a hard, tragic fall. ... Approximately 700 people were inside the school that fateful day. ... In the shooting, twenty students, ages 6 and 7, and six adults were killed at the school (Sandy Hook). ...

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He believed that the legislature should not make any law to force religion upon people, building a wall between Church and State (Lauren MacLeod). Jefferson's declaration of a wall between Church and State expressed opinions that the federal government didn't have the authority to force these laws on people. ... Constitution on the subject of voluntary school prayer. ... Jaffrey in 1985, which the courts canceled Alabama's moment of silence law. ... Prayer should not be allowed in public schools. ...

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Many people were outraged that prayer was no longer allowed in schools. ... It is true that students in some school districts have been forbidden to carry their Bible to school, or to wear a religious T-shirt to class. ... Constitution and of federal and state laws. ... Praying in school is not against the law. ... "From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our Nation and our people to the Almighty," said President Eisenhower after signing into law a bill to have "under God" ad...

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Every county has its own immigration laws. ... Therefore, they have had hard time finding a job and could not go to school until they get their green card which took them more than a year. ... Schools in the US provide better education materials to explain to the students what they are learning about. For example, a biology laboratory in a school in the US has much more learning tools and instruments than those in developing countries. ... Being unable to find a job after finishing school can be a frustrating experience. ...

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Religious Marquees in Public Schools Religious marquees belong in churches, not in public schools. ... However, many schools disregard the law while being patriotic. ... Just because the majority of the world's population believes in a God, it doesn't mean that religion in public schools follows the law. On June 17, 1963, the Supreme Court ruled that laws requiring recitation of the Lord's Prayer or Bible verses in public schools do not follow the constitution. ... Schools can bypass these controversial topics by not letting any religious beliefs enter public schools at ...

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Although the governor signed the bill into law, very little taxes are collected. ... Amazon used the same tactic after facing similar laws in Illinois, Arkansas, and Connecticut. ... However, Amazon's tactic of pulling out of states that enforce the law may not be enough. ... "People think they are getting a deal by ordering their stuff online and out of state, but, in fact, they are hurting the schools, the police" (Hull). ... "We think this law is unconstitutional," said Mark Griffin, Overstock's general counsel. ...

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The San Antonio Independent Schools v. ... Board of Education case, education was ruled as a fundamental right for all students when the court ruled in the Serrano case as unconstitutional under the equal protection law. (Karst, p. 2359) Some may also say that school taxes "only benefits households with children in public schools" (Mackenzie, 2006). ... Schools are separated into districts, these districts determines where students can go to school. ... There are materials, resources, and programs that these schools...

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The First Amendment does state: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." ... In the discussion led by Arthur Miller from the Harvard Law School, many university representatives were asked to discuss their views on particular matters regarding the First Amendment. ... Arthur Miller played the Devil's Advocate and asked different members of the panel if they ...

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For centuries society has been and still is built on rules and laws. Rules and laws are the reason why society is kept in order. ... When school boards said schools had a drug problem it did not mean candy or over the counter drugs. ... An article in the Chicago tribune points out that "In criminal law there are standards of intent, and there are assumptions of innocence as well as procedures of due process. ... In a court of law a judge has the flexibility to give different sentencing according to the case. ...

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Teacher tenure laws have long been a source of controversy throughout the United States. Recently, the teacher tenure law in California was ruled unconstitutional. ... While yes, a schools funding, the environment the students grow up in, etcetera, are factors in student's learning, any other job faces challenges, and an apt teacher would be able to overcome this. ... It seems to be that the main problem with teacher tenure in California is the lack of federal uniformity in the laws and policies because of the fact that educational laws vary so much in each and every state. Change is nece...

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School Desegregation Racial discrimination has been highly evident throughout the course of US history. ... Board of Education of Topeka, seventeen states had implemented a segregation law that permitted schools to separate black and white students; these were mainly the Southern states. The trial stated that the segregation of the schools was unconstitutional since it violated the fourteenth amendment of the constitution. ... Society started to accept different races and ethnicities more and the schools started to integrate students in order to unify them. ... The graph indicated that th...

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Take for example Cheryl Hopwood, a woman who applied for admission to the University of Texas Law School in 1992. ... She boasted a 3.8 grade point average and a high Law School Aptitude Test score. ... The University of Texas Law School was taken to court and proved that it simply did not take individual grades and merit into account, but it evidently lower standards for all minority applicants. ... The University of California Berkley School of Law admitted every black with a grade point average of 3.5 and Law School Admission Test of ninety or above, but only 42% of whites with equ...

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Board of Education of Topeka, seventeen states had implemented a segregation law that permitted schools to separate black and white students; these were mainly the Southern states. The trial stated that the segregation of the schools was unconstitutional since it violated the fourteenth amendment of the constitution. ... Society started to accept different races and ethnicities more and the schools started to integrate students in order to unify them. ... The graph indicated that the Northern states were more tolerant of school desegregation when compared with the South. ...

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Compulsory school attendance laws and the great expenditures for education both demonstrate our recognition of the importance of education to our democratic society. ... Though charter schools and public schools are quite similar, both schools are quite different as well. Charter schools are independent, nonsectarian public schools, which are governed by not-for-profit Boards of Trustees. ... While comparing charter schools to public schools, public schools are required by law to educate all children. ... Public schools are also responsible, under the special education laws, for educating chi...

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The principal of the white elementary school refused to accept Linda into the white school. ... The supreme court decided that Charlotte was not abiding by their laws and required the Mecklenburg school system to start busing children to be able to balance out the racial amounts. Busing was used since the school system used the bus transportation a lot and this would be a way to help start the new laws. ... I do think that this law really helped with the civil rights and it opened up a lot of peoples eyes and made them realize that not all of the people were being treated equally. So overa...

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