Extractions: KASA is proud to announce that after a lengthy and difficult selection process, we have added four new members to our National Advisory Board. They are: Blake Bogartus, 18 years old, from Alabama Mara Buchbinder, 20 years old, from New Hampshire Micah Fialka-Feldman, 17 years old, from Michigan Amanda Putz, 15 years old, from New York These folks join our 5 other Board members in doing long and short term planning for KASA and representing us at national meetings. We have also elected new co-chairs for the 2002 year, Maia Wroblewski and Naomi Ortiz. You can read more about our new Board members and co-chairs on our website in January. We thank all of you who helped to distribute our application and especially to those of you who applied to be on the Board. We receiving an incredible number of applications and the selection process was very competitive. We hope that all of you will continue to make a difference in your communities and to be active members of KASA at every opportunity. DISABILITY PREPAREDNESS WEBSITE The Disability Preparedness Website is up and running. This website features the article, Emergency Planning for People with Disabilities and Other Special Needs, by Dr. Carl T. Cameron, President, Board of Directors for the Inclusion Research Institute. Users will also find resources for training, products, articles and websites. For more information visit their
NEWS, CONFERENCES AND REPORTS On Education & Equity A major expansion of the delaware's autistic school in the parents of a learningdisabledchild private The appeals decision ruled that special public school http://www.maec.org/newsarchives/news10082000.html
Extractions: Week of October 8, 2000 NATIONAL Report on Hispanics and Education The President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans recently released Creating the Will: Hispanics Achieving Educational Excellence (requires Adobe's free Acrobat Reader ). The report focuses on strategies for closing the achievement gap between Hispanic students and their non-Hispanic peers, whom they lag behind on most traditional indicators of educational achievement. Improving academic achievement among Hispanic students is crucial, the Commission says, because of the sheer size of the population group: one-third of the nation's Hispanics are under 18, and in 25 years, Hispanic children are expected to make up a quarter of the school- age population.
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Extractions: Brentwood Academy v. Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association Earls v. Board of Education of Tecumseh Public School District Theodore v. Delaware Valley School District ... National Football League v. Primetime 24 Joint Venture SUPREME COURT HOLDS THAT STATE INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION IS STATE ACTOR. Brentwood Academy v. Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association , 121 S.Ct. 924 (February 20, 2001). On February 20, 2001, the United States Supreme Court overturned the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and held that the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association (TSSAA) is a state actor. Prior issues of You Make The Call. . . reported on the district court opinion which held that TSSAA was a state actor ( 13 F. Supp.2d 670 (D. Tn., July 29, 1998) ) and the Sixth Circuit opinion that reversed the district court decision. ( After reviewing these earlier decisions, the Supreme Court stated that TSSAA is a state actor "if, though only if, there is such a 'close nexus between the State and the challenged action' that seemingly private behavior 'may be fairly treated as that of the State itself.'" (p. 930). As the Court pointed out, (1) TSSAA is made up of 84% public schools, (2) meetings concerning recruiting and other rules are held during official school hours, (3) public schools largely provide for TSSAA's financial support, (4) TSSAA "exercises the authority of the predominately public schools to charge admission for their games," (p. 932), enjoying the school's moneymaking capacity as its own, and (5) the State of Tennessee assigns Board members and treats ministerial employees as state employees by making them eligible for the state retirement system. In sum, "[t]here would be no recognizable Association, legal or tangible, without the public school officials, who do not merely control but overwhelmingly perform all but the purely ministerial acts by which the Association exists and functions in practical terms." (
