Claim: Judge weighs whether NC schools conspired to depress wages.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
text: aid from universities and other organizations, and $12.1 million in athletic scholarships. In May 2005, Wake County Superior Court Judge Howard Manning Jr. issued a ruling in which he accused CMS of "academic genocide" against at-risk, low-income students in low-scoring high schools. Since the debut of its new student assignment plan in 2002, and the end of its court-ordered busing program, CMS has seen an increase in concentrations of poverty, with schools that have student-poverty rates of at least 75 percent at twice the number they were before. In the same year, Judge Manning also threatened to close 4 of

title: Rob Bryan
text: issued a permanent injunction prohibiting any more tax funds from being disbursed for vouchers. The Supreme Court of North Carolina agreed to hear an appeal prior to a resolution from the NC Court of Appeals and, in July 2015, overturned Judge Hobgood's order in a 4-3 decision. The majority of the State Supreme Court found the Program to be constitutional and ordered the scholarships to be continued. During the Program's three years, the scholarships have been widely sought after and the Program continues to grow. During the 2014-2015 school year, the North Carolina State Education Assistance Authority received applications from

title: University of North Carolina academic-athletic scandal
text: an analysis by Dan Kane of the Raleigh "News & Observer" found that the Honor Court failed to find multiple instances of plagiarism in McAdoo's paper. On July 13, a North Carolina Superior Court judge in Durham refused to grant an injunction against the NCAA, thus upholding ineligibility for McAdoo. Then in August, Dan Kane reported that football player Marvin Austin took a 400-level course in the department the summer before his freshman fall semester. According to an academic adviser at the university, "it is unusual for any freshman to begin his or her college education with a 400 level

title: Charlotte School of Law
text: Charlotte School of Law alleging fraud, violations of the North Carolina Deceptive Trade Practices Act, and other claims. The students claim that "money ruled, not education. And they left a lot of poor folks holding the bag." Faculty recently laid off by the school are also considering wrongful termination lawsuits. Beginning on June 21, 2017, the school operated on a restricted license. The required contingencies were not met, and the school's license expired on August 10, 2017. On August 15, 2017, the "New York Times" reported that the North Carolina attorney general had confirmed that Charlotte School of Law had

title: Industrial Workers of the World philosophy and tactics
text: generally been declared unconstitutional by the courts. Furthermore, an additional weapon has been placed in the hands of the employers by many courts in the form of sweeping injunctions, which render punishable acts which would otherwise be legal, and also result in effect in depriving the workers of the right to jury trial. The report includes the testimony of Judge Walter Clark, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina: Chairman Walsh. Have you studied the effect of the use of injunctions in labor disputes generally in the United States, as a student of economics and the law? Judge

title: National Bureau of Economic Research
text: arguing that they were a reaction to Jim Crow laws and tend to isolate African-American students from other racial groups. Controlling for test scores, majors, and other scholastic factors, the study looks at administrative data from North Carolina K-12 public schools of eighth graders both in 1999 and 2004, categorized both by race and socioeconomic standing. It then tracks these students through their expected graduation dates of both high school and college, given they continued to a North Carolina university, and they examined whatever racial stratification occurred within those time periods based on enrollment and graduation rates at each university.

title: Thomas Jefferson School of Law
text: post-graduation employment statistics and salary data in order to bait new students into enrolling. Alaburda, a 2008 honors graduate, claimed that despite graduating at the top of her class and passing the California bar exam, she was unable to find suitable legal employment, and had racked up more than $150,000 in student loan debt. This is the first time a law school would stand trial for allegedly inflating its employment statistics. The jury found in favor of TJSL with a 9-3 verdict. TJSL has been recognized in recent reports for transparency about graduate employment. In 2012 the National Jurist ranked

title: Black Student Movement
text: was then otherwise unused. Those arrested retained Charlotte attorneys Julius Chambers and Adam Stein to represent them.Ultimately, the UNC Non-Academic Employees Union was formed and its requests were prioritized: a minimum wage of $1.80 per hour, the appointment of a black supervisor, and time-and-a-half for overtime work. The strike came to an end on March 21, 1969, “when Gov. Scott agreed to pass legislation that would raise not only the Lenoir workers’ wages to $1.80 an hour, but also the wages of all other minimum wage workers across the state.” During 1968, the Movement staged several protest marches following the

title: Greene County Schools (North Carolina)
text: routes. The strike lasted four days and affected approximately 2800 black students in the county. It was resolved after parents were able to meet with school board members and work to move up the date for voting on a bond referendum for improvements to the county's Black high school. In 2005, former Senator John Edwards established a model scholarship program in the Greene County Schools system that he touted during his 2008 US presidential campaign. The College for Everyone program was administered by Edwards' Center for Promise and Opportunity Foundation. After Edwards lost his bid for the Democratic Party nomination,

title: The Daily Tar Heel
text: The lawsuit was on behalf of itself, the Capital Broadcasting Company, the Charlotte Observer Publishing Company and The Durham Herald Company. On May 3, 2017, Judge Allen Baddour, a Superior Court Judge in Wake and Orange County, ruled that UNC is not required to provide those public records. He stated that Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and the State Human Resources Act protects students and employees, respectively. The "DTH" has a long-standing bet with editors of "The Chronicle", Duke University's student newspaper. When the two schools' men's basketball teams first play, the losing school's paper must run its masthead

title: Robert Daniel Potter
text: the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed the conviction but vacated the sentence, holding that "Regrettably, we are left with the apprehension that the imposition of a lengthy prison term here may have reflected the fact that the court's own sense of religious propriety had somehow been betrayed. In this way, we believe that the trial court abused its discretion." In 1997, in the case of "Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education", Potter ordered the termination of desegregation busing of students in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District, ruling that the district had achieved "unitary" status; i.e., that

title: University of North Carolina academic-athletic scandal
text: Thomas, a lawyer for Mintz Levin and does work with colleges and universities, felt the ruling was "... a massive loophole, and from the P.R. side it looks horrible — these athletes can do what they do, and it looks horrible. But guess what? Maybe that's not the N.C.A.A.'s job. This is something the schools have always self-regulated." University of North Carolina academic-athletic scandal The University of North Carolina academic-athletic scandal involved proven fraud and academic dishonesty committed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). It is one of the most notorious academic scandals in United States

title: Rob Bryan
text: the State's biennial budget and passed in substantially the same form as it was introduced in July 2013. In late 2013, a pair of legal challenges were filed in North Carolina State courts challenging the validity of the Opportunity Scholarship Program under various provisions of the North Carolina Constitution. The challenges, brought by the North Carolina School Boards Association, the North Carolina Association of Educators, and the North Carolina Justice Center, were consolidated for action in Wake County Superior Court where Judge Robert Hobgood ultimately upheld the challenge and ruled that the Program was violative of the State Constitution. Hobgood

title: Diablo Valley College
text: felonies over the incident, and at least one had accepted a no contest plea. A spokesperson for the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges said that although the scandal was a negative factor it would be unlikely to lead to the school's loss of accreditation. In the first trial resulting from the grade changes, former student employee Erick Martinez was acquitted of all criminal charges on September 5, 2008. Jurors reached that decision after concluding that prosecutors failed to prove beyond a reasonable double that there was a definite link between Martinez and grade changes. "The Inquirer", the college's

title: Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
text: States v. Montgomery County Board of Education" (1969), Judge Frank Johnson’s desegregation order for teachers was upheld, allowing an approximate ratio of the races to be established by a district judge. North Carolina was one of the more moderate Southern states, and its resistance to integration was much weaker than in most other areas of the South. After Brown, it had ended segregation with a school assignment plan based on neighborhoods that was approved by the Court. However, when Charlotte consolidated school districts from the city itself with a surrounding area totaling , the majority of black students (who lived

title: Board of Education v. Walters
text: of Education v. Walters" is one of the cases that played a role leading to "DeRolph v. State of Ohio" in 1997, which found the model of funding for public schools in Ohio to be unconstitutional. The plaintiffs of this case brought suit claiming that Ohio held the responsibility to fund its public schools. The Cincinnati school board filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of Ohio school districts that believed they were underfunded. The plaintiffs believed that the system of funding, a mixture of state and local funding, violated the constitutional requirement to provide sufficient funding to operate a school

title: University of North Carolina academic-athletic scandal
text: that UNC did not live up to its end of the bargain by not sufficiently educating some of its student-athletes. Rebecca Schuman of "Slate.com" accused the university of "abjectly failing some of its students" by keeping them "functionally illiterate." Gerald Gurney, president of the Drake Group for Academic Integrity in College Sport, called UNC "the mother of all academic fraud violations" because of "cooperation of friendly faculty and [a] cover-up." Paul M. Barrett, in a cover story for the March 3, 2014 "Bloomberg Businessweek" magazine, wrote: "...rather than seriously investigate the connection between sports and classroom corruption, top university administrators

title: UNC Food Worker Strike
text: at UNC-CH. The argument against accelerating the process of desegregation became one of conservative, apathetic politicians and academic administrators, positioned against the momentous wave of social liberalism. In addition to raising questions regarding the status of race on college campuses, the Food Worker Strike also brought attention to the rights of public employees to strike. As employees of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, the striking food workers violated the terms of their employment which prohibited the disruption of University functions because of contractual complaints. From the workers' perspective, they were being subjected to exploitative working conditions because of

title: Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
text: The Finger Plan required busing of an additional 300 black students, established "satellite zones" and required pairing and grouping techniques to achieve even greater integration. As a consequence, McMillan became a local pariah. Chambers' home, office and car were bombed when he first took up the case. When the case was appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the case was heard "en banc" by six of the seven judges sat on the court. The seventh judge Judge J. Braxton Craven, recused himself due to him being the original trial court judge. The opinion was 3-2-1

title: Farm Labor Organizing Committee
text: had sued the United States Department of Labor for failing to force cucumber growers to raise wages for more than 30,000 guest workers. In 2005, the union won its lawsuit. Employers were forced to pay $1.4 million lawsuit to North Carolina workers who had deductions illegally taken from their pay. A federal district court judge ruled that growers belonging to the North Carolina Growers Association had to pay guest workers' visa and transportation fees. The ruling saved guest workers nearly $2 million a year. FLOC announced a second major organizing drive throughout the Deep South at its triennial convention in