The American Bar Association is pushing forward with a bid to strengthen its bar passage requirement for law schools over fresh objections from nearly half the nation’s law deans.

The proposal to require at least 75 percent of a school’s graduates to pass the bar within two years will be considered by the ABA’s House of Delegates at its midyear meeting Feb. 6 — a move the objecting deans had hoped to delay in light of the continued decline in California’s bar passage rate.

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