{"id":26,"date":"2017-02-21T08:38:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T13:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawdean\/?p=26"},"modified":"2017-02-21T08:38:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T13:38:58","slug":"an-update-on-the-california-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawdean\/2017\/02\/21\/an-update-on-the-california-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"An Update on the California Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, in a moment of commendable candor, Elizabeth Parker, executive director of the California Bar, told law makers that \u201cthere is no good answer\u201d for why California has set its bar exam cut score at the level it has. What should California do? One approach would be to simply lower its cut score to, say, the median cut score for all other states, and in the short run, that might be an appropriate response.\u00a0 But let\u2019s remember that California is not alone in having \u201cno good answer\u201d for why it set its cut score at the level it did.\u00a0 One can hope that the focus on California may bring much needed attention to the broader issues surrounding the bar exam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, in a moment of commendable candor, Elizabeth Parker, executive director of the California Bar, told law makers that \u201cthere is no good answer\u201d for why California has set its bar exam cut score at the level it has. What should California do? One approach would be to simply lower its cut score to, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3329,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63313],"tags":[63314],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-education","tag-bar-exam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawdean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawdean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawdean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawdean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3329"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawdean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawdean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawdean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawdean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawdean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}