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HB 1084: Protect Students First Act
Get PDFThe Act prohibits local school systems, charter schools, and their employees from teaching or advocating for divisive concepts as defined in the Act. Training programs for teacher certification by the Professional Standards Commission may not advocate for such divisive concepts. The Act also implements a complaint resolution policy for aggrieved parent(s), students, or school employees that allows them to appeal decisions to the State Board of Education, which can ultimately require local school systems to adopt a corrective action plan upon a finding of a violation of the Act. Local school systems that fail to adopt the corrective action plan are subject to suspension of one or more waivers. Finally, the Act requires all high schools receiving Quality Basic Education (QBE) funding for interscholastic sports events to appoint an executive oversight committee. Among the authority and duties of the committee is the power to prohibit transgender females from participating in sports events designated for female students. Violators of this provision are subject to forfeiture of QBE funding
SB 338: Amendments Relating to Medicaid Postpartum Coverage
Get PDFThis Act amends Medicaid postpartum coverage for mothers from a period of six months to one year. The Department of Human Services will provide postpartum care Medicaid coverage to mothers for a period of one year following the date pregnancy ends
Association Between Double Bonuses and Clinical and Administrative Performance in Medicare Advantage
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\u3c/i\u3eBook Review of\u3ci\u3e Shaping the Bar: The Future of Attorney Licensing
No full textIn Shaping the Bar: The Future of Attorney Licensing, Professor Joan Howarth issues a clarion call to the academy, the legal community, and the judiciary to reform how we license lawyers in the United States. In this book Howarth identifies the current crisis in law licensing, the history of racism that created this crisis, and the tools available to address it. Shaping the Bar challenges our entrenched notions of professional identity, and it forces us to confront vulnerabilities in attorney self-regulation. It does so in a manner that will stir even those not immersed in the current debate about law licensing. This review highlights Howarth’s explanation of how the attorney licensing system fails to protect the public by failing to assess the skills and abilities new lawyers need to competently represent clients while simultaneously unjustifiably excluding people of color and those without financial resources. The review summarizes her data-based arguments that explain how we have developed and perpetuated a system that fails the public and systematically disadvantages particular groups, and her eminently workable suggestions for how to change the system. It discusses how Howarth connects the law licensing process to legal education, highlighting the symbiotic relationship between the two, and noting that as legal educators, we must accept responsibility for our part in creating, and hopefully now dismantling, this system
Land Use Trends in the Rocky Mountain West: The Role of the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute
Get PDFAs one of the fastest-growing regions of the country, the communities of the intermountain West are poised to lead the nation in many ways, including how we manage change, create communities, and foster local places that contribute to a very high quality of life by nurturing and valuing the natural assets that make this region so special. This essay will reflect on how development patterns in the region have shifted over time. This essay will also ponder some potential emerging trends and areas of focus for the future, in the hopes that future scholars, students, and practitioners will build on his important legacy
Affordable Housing: Three Roadblocks to Regulatory Reform
Get PDFThis article focuses on techniques, initiatives, and regulatory reforms that may help improve affordability in housing, and thereby serve the need for economic, social, and racial equity. It focuses especially on three impediments standing in the way of affordability: the myth of Home Rule, limitations of the Fair Housing Act, and the pervasive use of private covenants and restrictions. Those roadblocks deserve the closest attention and concerted action and must be knocked down, once and for all, to get the housing we so desperately need