Despite growing optimism about the end of the coronavirus pandemic, the California Supreme Court decided Friday that July’s bar exam will be held remotely, the third state bar exam to be held in such a fashion.
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The Biden administration said Wednesday it will spend $1.6 billion to expand Covid-19 testing capabilities nationwide and boost the ability to detect variants of the respiratory disease.
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The Michigan Court of Appeals reinstated a family’s medical malpractice claims against the University of Michigan and Yale University arising from inaccurate genetic testing results. The family was told that one of their daughters was at a high risk of developing melanoma but it was actually the other daughter who was at risk and who ended up developing skin cancer.
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A Virginia judge has denied a preliminary injunction sought by parents of middle school students who sued the Fairfax County School Board over a plan to jettison standardized testing as part of the admissions process for one of the nation’s top high schools.
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The Biden administration announced Monday that two federal agencies will invest over $230 million in an over-the-counter test to detect the Covid-19 virus.
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Upholding the first set of awards to Black and Latino teachers who were given a racially biased literacy test, the Second Circuit found that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in calculating individual damages.
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Attorneys for students hoping to attend the country’s most prestigious public science and technology high school argued Monday that a Virginia school board unfairly eliminated the standardized admissions tests that would have made their acceptance a sure thing.
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Suspending the merit-based screening system that for years has guided admissions to New York City’s most selective middle schools, Mayor Bill de Blasio framed the move as a long-needed step toward desegregation.
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A State Bar committee on provisional licensure will recommend that the California Supreme Court waive the bar exam for those who scored 1390 or higher on the exam since July 2015, so long as they practice a certain number of supervised hours under a licensed attorney.
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U.S. regulators on Tuesday allowed emergency use of the first rapid coronavirus test that can be performed entirely at home and delivers results in 30 minutes.
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President Donald Trump said from the White House Rose Garden on Monday that the federal government has contracted with health care giant Abbott Laboratories to procure 150 million rapid Covid-19 tests for local governments in all 50 states to help them reopen schools.
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With a problematic online bar exam looming less than a month away, a contingent of law school graduates carrying handmade signs gathered Thursday morning on the steps of the California Supreme Court to advocate for admission to the bar based on their past scores.
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A judge has blocked the University of California system from using the SAT and ACT as part of its admissions process, finding a “test-optional policy” gives an unfair advantage to students who can access testing centers during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read moreAn at-will employee has no cause of action for common-law invasion of privacy when they consent to the collection of their urine under the “direct-observation method,” during which a same-sex monitor visually observes the employee producing the sample, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled.
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California Democrats lined up Wednesday behind a resolution that seeks a retroactively lowered passing score on the state bar exam going back as far as July 2015.
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Thousands of school-leaving children in Britain were left distraught Thursday after being handed lower-than-expected grades, with many questioning how the results were calculated after the coronavirus pandemic cancelled exams that are key for college applications.
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The California Supreme Court finalized plans Monday to permanently lower the passing score for the state bar exam and has decided the new passing threshold will not be applied retroactively.
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The California Supreme Court is considering whether to apply a newly lowered bar passing score to the February 2020 exam, following a flurry of letters and petitions from law school graduates, deans, and legislators.
Read moreIn the wake of the California Supreme Court’s sudden decision to lower the bar exam’s minimum passing score, law school graduates and deans are now asking that the lower score to be applied to graduates who took the exam in February.
Read moreThe California Supreme Court has finally weighed in on the question of whether the State Bar should still administer a remote bar exam this year in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, pushing exam dates to early October.
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