As I sat in the auditorium full of law school administrators and legal service providers at my first Annual
Law School Access to Justice Conference, I anticipated a long day of theoretical discussions about diversifying the profession and getting law schools more involved in access to justice initiatives in New York State.
This May, the New York State Permanent Commission on Access to Justice at New York University School of Law held its fifth annual
Law School Access to Justice Conference.
Not exact matches
Fusking can be illegal under U.S.
laws designed to protect
access to information on networks, said Michael Risch, a professor at Villanova University
School of
Law in Pennsylvania.
Gov. Rick Scott signed into
law sweeping changes to
school safety and gun access on Friday — a measure crafted in response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School sho
school safety and gun
access on Friday — a measure crafted in response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
School sho
School shooting.
In the aftermath of the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
School in Parkland, Fla., elected and
law enforcement officials ramped up their demands for expanded authority over the mentally ill who pose a danger, although some of the officials never mentioned curbing
access to guns.
The religious among us keep trying to chip away at the separation of church and state by making people recite the pledge of allegiance with the God clause, installing religious symbols and displays on public property, holding prayer breakfasts for politicians, berating the removal of prayer in public
schools, trying to pass
laws limiting women's
access to birth control, and trying to get an amendment passed outlawing abortion (since in their view God creates a soul the moment a sperm enters an egg).
• New England
School of
Law associate dean Victor M. Hansen offers an answer: «The fact that both the college experience and the military experience are often the first time people of this age range are independent, have
access to alcohol and are interacting socially with members of the opposite sex suggests to me that we have not done enough before young people reach this age to educate, model and encourage appropriate behavior.»
In Republican - controlled legislatures, the number of
laws proposed to loosen gun control increased by 75 percent, where in Democrat - controlled legislatures, the number of
laws proposed to restrict gun
access increased 10 percent, according to the Harvard Business
School study.
No Jewish organization supported the Equal
Access Act, which wrote the equal time principle into
law and allowed religious students a platform from which to inject religion into the public high
school environment.
The proposed rules are the second step in a larger effort to improve the foods U.S. students have
access to during the
school day under a 2010 child nutrition
law.
A few years ago, I brought it to the attention of the food service director of my children's
school district after my son got sick eating the [sic]
school lunch and after the
school closed down parent
access to the
school lunch area after they found out I went through food
laws and regulations training.
Brooke ensures that the policies and practices of Maryland state and local agencies and
school districts are designed to allow low - income families and individuals maximum
access to nutrition programs; and that the state, counties,
school districts, and community - based providers take advantage of options in federal
law to maximize
access and benefits.
In January 2012, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, or USDA, finalized its updated nutritional standards for
school meals in keeping with the Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 (Public
Law No. 111 - 296), which reauthorized the
school meal programs and placed an emphasis on the need to improve
access to healthy foods in
schools.
Since becoming
law in December 2010, it has given America's children
access to healthier food options for breakfast, lunch, and throughout the
school day.
Every single day Klein makes the choice to NOT protect reproductive rights for the women of New York, to NOT give working families
access to great healthcare they can actually afford, and to NOT give our children desperately needed
school funding, which by the way, they are owed by
law.
The SMART
SCHOOLS BOND ACT OF 2014, as set forth in section one of part B of chapter 56 of the
laws of 2014, authorizes the sale of state bonds of up to two billion dollars ($ 2,000,000,000) to provide
access to classroom technology and high - speed internet connectivity to equalize opportunities for children to learn.
«However, current
law does not authorize charter
schools to offer state supported pre-kindergarten programs, thereby preventing children from
accessing potentially high - quality providers.»
Teacher Evaluations Go Public, Teachers» Rights Protected A new New York
law ensuring that parents and the public have
access to information involving how the teachers, principals and
schools are performing while still respecting the educators» privacy is on the horizon.
If elected, Mr. Giardina pledged to evaluate current
law enforcement programs and policies for interdiction and intervention; support 12 - step programs for addiction recovery; double the number of children and teenagers involved in after -
school and sports programs sponsored by
schools and faith and community - based groups; establish mentorship, apprenticeship, and internship programs that link East Hampton's youth with year - round homeowners and those who visit seasonally; create a volunteer program for those in recovery to be reintegrated into the job market; triple the number of police, firefighters, educators, and medical personnel trained to administer Narcan, and investigate the establishment of an easy -
access residential treatment facility available as an alternative or supplement to incarceration.
«As a State Senator,» he explained, «I will fight for the things that matter to New Yorkers: strengthening rent
laws and preserving affordable housing, increasing
access to quality
schools, safeguarding the environment, promoting economic and social justice, preventing violence in our communities, and creating a fairer and more accessible political process.»
A Nigerian
Law School graduate denied
access to the venue of the call to bar ceremony recently, Miss Firdaus Amasa, has revealed that she was prepared...
It is not about restricting people's
access to the
law school that will churn out quality lawyers in Ghana.
A group calling itself the Concerned LLB Graduates, has threatened to sue the General Legal Council for contempt of court, for using the recently taken entrance exams and interview to deny over seven hundred students who failed
access to the Ghana
Law School.
The governor could also work to change the state's charter
law to include a mandate that New York City's charter students should either have
access to sufficient space or that funding be made available to ensure that
schools have enough money to pay for additional space, Bill Phillips, president of the Northeast Charter
School Network, told Capital.
Efforts to limit
access to voting, compounded by election security concerns, have created a lack of confidence in the U.S. voting system, said Myrna Perez, professor of
law and director of the Brennan Center for Justice Voting Rights and Elections Project at the New York University School of L
law and director of the Brennan Center for Justice Voting Rights and Elections Project at the New York University
School of
LawLaw.
Hammond, who says he battled TAMU for months to gain
access to documents under a state open records
law, agrees on one point with Davis: «I think that there are many other
schools that have issues like Texas A&M.»
To determine whether institutions are in compliance with the
law, the Office for Civil Rights looks at things such as whether women have equal
access to advanced course work in high
school as well as postsecondary
schooling and graduate work.
«Ultimately, we found that
access restrictions are not based on scientific evidence, current treatment guidelines, or clinical data,» said co-author Robert Greenwald, J.D., director of Harvard
Law School's Center for Health
Law and Policy Innovation.
«One might hope that free online learning opportunities would be especially appealing to students who wouldn't otherwise have
access to high - quality resources,» said John Hansen of Harvard
Law School, lead author of the study.
A policy for
access to assisted dying by nonterminally ill patients with psychiatric conditions will put many vulnerable and stigmatized people at risk,» writes Dr. Scott Kim, a physician and bioethicist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States, with Dr. Trudo Lemmens, a professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of
Law & the Dalla Lana
School of Public Health.
A new publication from the Collaboration for Research Integrity and Transparency (CRIT) at Yale
Law School and AllTrials supporters Transparency International, TranspariMED and Cochrane calls on governments to ensure that patients, doctors, and scientists can
access the full results of all clinical trials.
Bain had multiple surgeries in high
school, but also fought for legislation, known as Ally's
Law (aka the Restroom
Access Act), after she was denied access to a Chicago retail store's employee res
Access Act), after she was denied
access to a Chicago retail store's employee res
access to a Chicago retail store's employee restroom.
It was never the intention of these
laws to require
schools to ban teachers and students from
accessing the Internet for the purpose of learning.
While former
Schools Minister David
Laws counselled that the «whims of here - today, gone tomorrow» politicians should not decide the direction of the
school curriculum, Gibb argued «
access to these wonderful novels shouldn't be the preserve of the few».
The SMART Grants — for National Science and Mathematics
Access to Retain Talent — and the Academic Competitiveness Grants were signed into
law in early 2006 and became available to students starting in the 2006 - 07
school year.
These include depriving charters of full per - pupil funding; denying them
access to (or financing for) facilities; placing new restrictions on existing
schools or moratoriums on future growth; and weakening charter
laws.
Some districts and, in some cases, entire states, are drafting new
laws to ban junk food from
school and encourage
access to healthy offerings on campuses.
By giving these
schools true control over their programs, staff, and curricula, and by opening them to all families, authors of the charter
school law resurrected the true American vision of public
schooling: equal
access to great instruction and accountability for results.
The charter
school movement turned 25 last year, yet the National Alliance for Public Charter
Schools identified only 3 out of 43 states — California, Colorado, Utah — and the District of Columbia as having
laws that support
access to capital funding and facilities.
Allison Hertog is a member of the Step Up for Students governance board and is the founding attorney of Making
School Work, a private
law firm whose mission is to help parents
access the right placement — public or private — for their special needs children.
Laws that provide for public
schools reflect a commitment to the concept that all children should have
access to an excellent K - 12 education, regardless of their race, socioeconomic status, language proficiency, academic readiness, or special education needs.
A governor who enacts a charter
law may find that no
school board will actually authorize such
schools or allow them
access to empty buildings owned by the district.
State Supreme Court Justice Francis A. Affronti ruled on Feb. 13 that, based on the legislative history and intent of the education
law, the unprecedented board action conflicted with the
law, which requires
school boards to give
access to military recruiters «on the same basis» as any other employment or college recruiters.
The proposed
law would prohibit
schools and libraries from providing minors
access to those types of sites.
Yet, the
access and use the internet is dictated more by policies of
school governing bodies than the
law.
That's why a group of parents and students in Connecticut, with support from the nonprofit students» rights organization Students Matter, filed a case last month in federal court challenging their state's
laws «that knowingly and actively prevent students from
accessing even minimally acceptable public
school options.»
Nina Rees, CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter
Schools, said the law could be «a game - changer when it comes to giving more public school students access to high - quality charter public schools.
Schools, said the
law could be «a game - changer when it comes to giving more public
school students
access to high - quality charter public
schools.
schools.»
By legislative mandate, all students have
access to some form of public education, and
schools are required by
law to serve all students.
After working for more than two decades to close the charter -
school funding gap, charter advocates celebrated two victories in 2017 when Colorado and Florida both passed
laws — the first in the country — mandating equitable
access to certain local tax revenues for charter
schools.
The most remarkable thing about the Ph.D. in Education is open
access to faculty from all Harvard graduate and professional
schools, including the Harvard Graduate
School of Education, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Harvard Kennedy
School, the Harvard
Law School, Harvard Medical
School, and the Harvard
School of Public Health.