The Bar Exam’s Unlearned Lessons: California’s July Test Set to Repeat Past Mistakes
The State Bar has been scrambling both to develop remedies for the February examinees and to plan for July. Unfortunately, ...
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Newsom orders state workers to return to the office 4 days a week in California
The majority of California’s 224,000 full-time state workers already report to work in-person daily. The remaining workers are currently required to work in the office at least two days per week ...
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California's new bar exam launch was a 'disaster.' Now test takers are suing.
LATEST, Feb. 28 The fallout from the State Bar of California’s messy rollout of its new bar exam continues to escalate, as test takers have ... She’s also written entertainment news for ...
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FEMA declines to test soil after California fires despite Newsom administration concerns
Although FEMA has funded and conducted soil sampling at some of California’s biggest wildfires over the past two decades, the federal agency changed its approach in 2020, Brandi Richard Thompson ...
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'Utterly Botched': Glitchy rollout of new California bar exam prompts lawsuit and legislative review
An exterior of the California State Bar headquarters building in downtown Los Angeles on March 2, 2021. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) ...
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California bar exam test takers sue over ‘disaster’ rollout this week
Feb 28 (Reuters) - A trio of test takers on Thursday filed what looks to be the first lawsuit over California’s problem ... Meazure was formed through the 2020 merger of testing companies ...
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Retakes offered to California Bar exam takers after widespread issues reported with new test
PIX Now - Morning Edition 2/27/29 08:29 The State Bar of California has announced that retakes of the state's new bar exam will be offered as test takers reported numerous issues with the two-day ...
Law29d
Who Answers for Botched February California Bar Exam? So Far, Nobody
The dean also questioned what the troubled test will do to pass rates; schools like Monterey College of Law are evaluated by the bar and the California Supreme Court on the number of students who ...
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California Bar Takers Report Severe Tech Issues on Test Day (1)
California Bar takers who sounded alarms for weeks leading up to the launch of the brand-new licensing exam said their fears were confirmed Tuesday when many reported severe technical issues on the ...
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California bar exam failers to get free retakes, amid testing mess
Feb 24 (Reuters) - The State Bar of California will allow ... have withdrawn from the upcoming test. In August, the state bar fast-tracked a new exam written by Kaplan Exam Services and gave ...
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Stanford-Harvard ‘scorecard’ translates California’s test scores into months of missed learning
The data also shows that states that were largely open for in-person instruction during 2020-21 ... for California from pre-pandemic 2018-19 and 2021-22 that EdSource reported this week. However, ...