By Michelle Ball, California Education Attorney for Students since 1995As we all know, our kids are required to take state mandated educational tests, such as the CAASPP (California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress), to evaluate where they...
Friday, January 31, 2020
How To Exempt Your Child From Statewide School Testing
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Are media exaggerating coronavirus threat?A few years ago during an Ebola outbreak, the media were rightly accused of stirring up unnecessary fear, even hysteria. As news is disseminated about the coronavirus, are media once again unnecessarily exaggerating...
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Indian agriculture has been in distress for over two decades. Why couldn't economists see it earlier?
Pic courtesy: The HinduIt was in 2013, when just prior to the inauguration of the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) jamboree at Davos in Switzerland, Oxfam too released its annual global inequality report. Estimating that the richest 100 families in...
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
In House School Suspensions- What Rights Do Parents And Students Have?
By Michelle Ball, California Education Attorney for Students since 1995There is a lot of focus in schools on the "big" discipline: out of school suspension (typically just called "suspension") and expulsion, and how to confront and handle these, but...
Friday, January 24, 2020
Invisible Emergency
Three weeks after the kharif harvesting season began farmers were unable to get the right price for their produce. Out of the 14 kharifseason crops that were being marketed, a newspaper reported (Oct 26, 2019) that the mandi prices of at least nine of...
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Peacebuilders inspired, concerned at Rotary World Peace event(Ontario, California)--Like most attendees at the Rotary World Peace Conference last weekend in Ontario, CA, I came away with mixed feelings. On the one hand, I depart deeply concerned about...
Four priorities for Finance Minister in Budget 2020
Pic courtesy: Business TodayThere are three very significant findings that should shape the lists of economic measures that the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is expected to spell out while presenting the budget on Feb 1. Especially at a time when...
Friday, January 17, 2020
Understanding food price inflation
It was in Nov/Dec 2018 that prices of onions had crashed. Prices had come down to such a low level that at many places farmers were forced to throw onions on the streets. Reports of onion farmers getting a price of less than Rs 2 a kilo adorned the local...
School Recess Restrictions for Discipline- Are These Okay?
By Michelle Ball, California Education Attorney for Students since 1995Once in awhile, a parent is surprised when their child tells them they were held in during recess by the teacher, and did not get a break that day. Unfortunately, this may be...
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