Thursday, November 19, 2020

Readmission To Public School After Expulsion

By Michelle Ball, California Education Attorney for Students since 1995 School expulsion is traumatizing and awful.  Once the worst happens and an expulsion is imposed, do students just get automatic reentry into their local school when the time...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2020

PJ needed to set the tone for peace in EthiopiaIt is with great alarm that I view the current violent conflict in Ethiopia, where I spent the spring, 2018 semester as a State Department Senior Subject Specialist. I was based at the University of Gondar,...
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Monday, November 16, 2020

Possession of Nicotine or Tobacco As Basis For School Discipline

By Michelle Ball, California Education Attorney for Students since 1995Talk to many in our culture today about nicotine products and the public schools and you may hear:  "So what, the kid's smoking, isn't that something every teen does?"  Not...
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Thursday, November 12, 2020

Aren't mainline economists lazy?

Will markets give him the right price? If making Minimum Support Price (MSP) a legal right for farmers “will spell disaster in the markets, and private players will hesitate to enter into the market,” the fundamental question that protesting farmers...
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Filing A UC or CSU Discipline Appeal Within The College: Bases For Appeal

By Michelle Ball, California Education Attorney for Students since 1995 College punishment can come swiftly and harshly, ending with a suspension or even an expulsion for minor activities.  Even in the University of California (UC) and California...
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Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Students:Whether you candidate won or lost, use this election as peacebuilding opportunityNote: I plan to email this to all of my students as soon as we have a presidential winner.Nov. 4, 2020Dear Peace Studies and Peace Journalism students: Despite...
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