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This text traces the historical and architectural development of one of the most important but least understood buildings constructed in 18th-century South Carolina.
Author : Carl Lounsbury
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,65 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781570033780
This text traces the historical and architectural development of one of the most important but least understood buildings constructed in 18th-century South Carolina.
Author : R.A. WOOSTER
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Page : pages
File Size : 21,81 MB
Release : 1969
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Author : Christopher A. Suarez
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
Release : 2012
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This Review discusses two new books that build upon the existing literature discussing remedies in school finance litigation. Both books - Courts and Kids (Rebell) and Schoolhouses, Courthouses, Statehouses (Hanushek and Lindseth) - make significant contributions to this literature. Hanushek and Lindseth are pessimistic about the role of courts in school finance reform, but are optimistic that school finance systems that hold school districts accountable for outcomes will provide a strong impetus for future legislative reform efforts across the nation. Rebell is less optimistic about legislatures and sees a broader role for courts, but he is confident that legislative solutions will only be effective if they are guided by a court's use of both strong remedial principles and oversight. To harmonize the books' proposals, I propose a framework that leverages the strengths of both judicial and legislative oversight of school finance remedies.
Author : Ralph A. Wooster
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Page : 220 pages
File Size : 35,56 MB
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ISBN : 9780608140339
Author : Jacklynn Lord
Publisher : PublishAmerica
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 19,9 MB
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1451295510
"In 1983 Viking published Peter Matthiessen's In the Spirit of Crazy Horse. Lawsuits filed against the book by the South Dakota Governor and an FBI Special Agent caused the book to disappear for seven years. Sarah Bad Heart Bull's riveting role at the courthouse in Custer, South Dakota is recounted in Matthiessen's book. She was arrested for arson and riot. But what happened after Sarah was thrown in prison? In Custer Court House Incident, Reno author Jacklynn Lord tells the rest of the story. Sarah's only surviving son—Vincent Bad Heart Bull—was first incarcerated at 17. Now 54, Vincent remains in prison. Is he a victim of what could be described as endemic American racism? Acquiring transcripts from Vincent's cases, Lord has woven courtroom drama into a beautifully written biography of the Lakota Sioux artist and spiritual leader known as Vincent Bad Heart Bull."
Author : Martha J. McNamara
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,10 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780801873959
During the formative years of the American republic, lawyers and architects, both eager to secure public affirmation of their professional status, worked together to create specialized, purpose-built courthouses to replace the informal judicial settings in which trials took place during the colonial era. In From Tavern to Courthouse, Martha J. McNamara addresses this fundamental redefinition of civic space in Massachusetts. Professional collaboration, she argues, benefitted both lawyers and architects, as it reinforced their desire to be perceived as trained specialists solely concerned with promoting the public good. These courthouses, now reserved exclusively for legal proceedings and occupying specialized locations in the town plans represented a new vision for the design, organization, and function of civic space. McNamara shows how courthouse spaces were refined to reflect the increasingly professionalized judicial system and particularly to accommodate the rapidly growing participation of lawyers in legal proceedings. In following this evolution of judicial space from taverns and town houses to monumental courthouse complexes, she discusses the construction of Boston's first civic building, the 1658 Town House, and its significance for colonial law and commerce; the rise of professionally trained lawyers through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; and changes in judicial rituals at the turn of the century and development of specialized judicial landscapes. A case study of three courthouses built in Essex County between 1785 and 1805, delineates these changes as they unfold in one county over a thirty year period. Concise and clearly written, From Tavern to Courthouse reveals the processes by which architects and lawyers crafted new judicial spaces to provide a specialized, exclusive venue in which lawyers could articulate their professional status.
Author : Lawrence Schiller
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Page : 498 pages
File Size : 39,69 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780786250639
No one in Cape May Court House, New Jersey, was surprised when Eric Thomas, a popular young doctor, sued Ford Motor Company for the wrongful death of his pregnant wife, Tracy. The accident they were involved in was minor, and they were driving a big, powerful Explorer. Nevertheless, Tracy died in the accident, leaving behind her husband and cherished young daughter. Backed by the medical examiner's findings, Thomas's lawsuit claimed that the vehicle's air bag inflated improperly, resulting in Tracy's suffocation. But what started out as a product-liability case rapidly evolved into something altogether different when Ford alleged that Tracy was killed not by the air bag -- but by manual strangulation.
Author : Eric A. Hanushek
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 30,98 MB
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 1400830257
Improving public schools through performance-based funding Spurred by court rulings requiring states to increase public-school funding, the United States now spends more per student on K-12 education than almost any other country. Yet American students still achieve less than their foreign counterparts, their performance has been flat for decades, millions of them are failing, and poor and minority students remain far behind their more advantaged peers. In this book, Eric Hanushek and Alfred Lindseth trace the history of reform efforts and conclude that the principal focus of both courts and legislatures on ever-increasing funding has done little to improve student achievement. Instead, Hanushek and Lindseth propose a new approach: a performance-based system that directly links funding to success in raising student achievement. This system would empower and motivate educators to make better, more cost-effective decisions about how to run their schools, ultimately leading to improved student performance. Hanushek and Lindseth have been important participants in the school funding debate for three decades. Here, they draw on their experience, as well as the best available research and data, to show why improving schools will require overhauling the way financing, incentives, and accountability work in public education.
Author : John Morrill Bryan
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,14 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1570032912
This work offers a look at the construction and renovation of South Carolina's most important government structure, the State House. Prompted to research the building by its restoration between 1995 and 1998, the author witnessed every stage of excavation, demolition and rebuilding.
Author : National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice. Statistics Division
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Page : 740 pages
File Size : 32,50 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
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