Sentence examples for upheld testing from inspiring English sources

The new ruling, Board of Education v. Earls, No. 01-332, upheld testing students involved in extracurricular activities and suggested that under the schools' "custodial responsibility" for students' welfare, testing all students would be acceptable.

The justices expanded their endorsement of random drug testing in the schools, going beyond a 1995 decision that upheld testing for student athletes.

The appeals court majority said that Tecumseh had not demonstrated that there was "an actual drug abuse problem among those subject to the policy" and that therefore the balancing test the Supreme Court adopted when it upheld the testing of student athletes in Vernonia, Ore., tipped against the school district in Tecumseh.

The decision, due before the current term ends early next summer, should clarify the court's 1995 ruling that upheld drug testing for student athletes but that left school districts uncertain about whether they could apply drug testing programs to other groups, or perhaps even to all students, as a way to deter drug use.

The courts have largely upheld drug testing for workers with public safety jobs.

In a previous ruling, a 1995 decision that upheld the testing of athletes in the small town of Vernonia, Ore., the 6-to-3 majority put great weight on two factors: that there was a substantial drug problem and that athletes were evidently at the center of it.

A 2002 Supreme Court case upheld such tests as constitutional.

Complicating these issues is that no singular embodying theoretical model has been adept at proving language knowledge and use; therefore, it has been left to the notions of test validity and usefulness to attempt to uphold language testing theory.

The vote to uphold the testing of athletes was 6 to 3, with a spirited dissenting opinion by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

Six years after a United States Supreme Court ruling upheld random drug testing of student athletes, spurring hundreds of school districts to adopt similar policies, several recent court decisions have struck down broader programs that test nonathletes.

These systems specify that particular standards be upheld, records kept, and testing be performed.