From what I understand, they'll probably uphold it. |
It's certainly a program area that we would encourage school districts to partake in. We would offer them guidance as to local independent agencies that could certainly assist in offering any type of programs geared towards character education. |
The guidelines that have been set to address the achievement gap can only be done fairly and accurately if you pinpoint a number, and that number is 40. |
We don't know how they're coming up with their figures. |
We think that federal law trumps what's in state law. You would not have to put this to a vote. |
We're doing a speed dating service, matching these partners city by city. |
We're in the middle here. We haven't created this law, so the state can't bend the rules here so to speak in terms of switching guidelines or allowing counties to be flexible about compliance. |
Westmoreland County, under what's provided by federal law, has to change their voting machines anyway. What it boils down to is there are two types of laws here. ... From our standpoint, it's pretty cut and dry. The federal law says what it says. |
You can say that's a higher-than-normal number of challenges being filed, but by the same token, there's a higher number of folks seeking election, too. |