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You shoulda been there! On June 12th Jennifer Barmon, Esq., Maryland’s powerhouse attorney with the Office of Public Defender and expert in all all things education and juvenile law related, joined us Friday for our monthly meeting...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has aggressively taken on a significant number of highly predatory, unethical business groups disguised as colleges and post high school training centers and only too eager to rip off...
When a youg Massachusetts high school couple recently posted their pre-prom photo shoot on FB – all dressed up for their big night and holding realistic looking assault airsoft rifles, instead of that special...
The shameful legislative ice age we are all living in affects children and teens as much as — or, perhaps, even more so than — adults. Since 1974, the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention...
The Obama administration issued a series of guidelines this Wednesday calling for school systems to relax their harsh disciplinary measures that often introduce the criminal justice system into the lives of students, effectively widening...
Does zero tolerance achieve its intended effect?
Florida’s Boward County Public Schools had the highest arrest record among districts in the state. Now, it’s following the lead of other school districts around the country and revising its zero tolerance policy. Read...
Education / HooverLaw In The News / Maryland State Bar Association
by Patrick Hoover · Published November 27, 2013
Patrick Hoover and former associate Bryan Utter of HooverLaw wrote about zero tolerance in the Maryland State Bar Association’s November 2013 edition of the Bar Bulletin. Read the full article here.
In addition to the publicly available school district budgets for 2013, the Maryland State Department of Education has also released data on the number of students receiving of special education services. It should come...
Fresh off the press, HooverLaw’s Summer Newsletter is now available. Learn about Zero Tolerance Policies from one of Maryland’s leading Education and Juvenile Law Attorneys, Mr. Patrick Hoover, Esq. Featuring articles: “Turning our Schools...
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