Educator puts brakes on area school districts' joint resolution opposing 710 extension.
Several districts put the resolution on their agendas, then removed it.
They petitioned the Berkeley City Council and school district, which passed resolutions supporting their cause.
Mercifully, as reported in YES! (Spring 2014), backlash against high-stakes testing came to a head in 2012 when 875 Texas school districts issued a resolution that such tests are "strangling education".
On Wednesday, lawyers of the Rawalpindi District Bar passed a resolution against what they termed the army chief's interference in politics.
The district court certified (requested resolution of) the constitutional questions to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, which upheld almost all provisions of the law.
Justice Sotomayor, with methodical reasoning and a formal writing style, said no. "Permitting parties to undertake successive, piecemeal appeals of all adverse attorney-client rulings," she wrote, "would unduly delay the resolution of district court litigation and needlessly burden the courts of appeals".
Board member Tamar Galatzan said she feared that by approving the resolution, the district would be creating a bloated student bureaucracy without knowing the true cost and logistics of such a body.
Although the WHO epidemic response guidelines recommend splitting large districts (>100,000 inhabitants) into subdistricts for data analysis (12 ), surveillance data during the last decade have been analyzed at no higher resolution than district level in most instances.
"More than 30 districts have adopted resolutions to support us, and want to join the lawsuit," said Helmut Echtenberg, the mayor of Germany's Greater Aachen region, who is leading the campaign.
