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Jun 02, 2015
Community Organizations File Formal Petition To Amend Graduation Regulations
A coalition of 12 organizations representing youth, parents, the disability community, and civil rights activists today filed a formal petition with the state Council on Elementary and Secondary Education to initiate a public rule-making process to bar school districts from using high-stakes testing as a graduation requirement or grading tool before 2020.
May 28, 2015
ACLU Challenges Century-Old Law Barring Some Inmates From Marrying
The ACLU of Rhode Island today filed a federal lawsuit to challenge the constitutionality of a 106-year-old statute that declares inmates serving life sentences at the ACI to be “civilly dead.” The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court by ACLU volunteer attorney Sonja Deyoe, is on behalf of two ACI inmates and the women who have been barred from marrying them because of the “civil death” law. Rhode Island apparently remains one of only three states that still has on the books a law like this, whose origins date back to ancient English common law.
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