Sentences with phrase «among law students»

The Society recognizes excellence in Nova Scotia's legal profession and among law students with several awards:

To advance the NSRLP's goal of continuing to build awareness among law students of the experiences and impact of... read more

Though Phillips is an experienced, admired journalist, we're sure Hale — who was crowned the «most admired person in the legal profession» among law students last year — and her reputation will withstand these comments.

«There are a number of practitioners in the area and we've been talking about what is the best way to develop interest among law students in this area,» she says.

They are finding huge interest among law students and younger lawyers.

Among law students, reaction was more certain.

There is a huge sense of entitlement among law students in Canada, apparently.

The Harvard Law School (HLS) SALDF chapter raised awareness of animal law among law students, faculty, and the broader campus community by publishing articles in the Harvard Law Record and Harvard Crimson, and holding 17 packed events throughout the 2014 - 2015 academic year!

In recent years more and more popular among law students enjoy participating in moot court» ach — simulation trials.

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But once the referee is gone and the consent decree is no longer the guiding document, Title IX will still be in effect and Quinnipiac, under federal law, must continue to strive for gender equity among its student athletes.

One of the most active athletic trainers» association at the state level is in New Jersey, which was the first state to require by law that coaches receive safety training, is among the 40 states that have enacted strong youth concussion safety laws, and has been a leader in advocating for academic accommodations for concussed student - athletes.

This suggests that the state's sports - related concussion law has helped to improve the evaluation and detection of such injuries among high school students, by increasing obligatory emergency room visits.

Billed as the «People's Presidential Debate,» the three candidates fielded a wide range of questions, ranging from the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline to the recent document dumps by WikiLeaks to staggering student debt and the nation's burdensome and discriminatory ballot access laws, among other topics, and did so without interrupting or insulting their opponents as had happened frequently during the recent Clinton - Trump debates.

«This students are among the best and brightest in our great borough,» said Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. «Clubs like La Sociedad Honoraria Hispanica are a great launching pad for the future leaders of The Bronx, and I remain honored and humbled that the school community of the Bronx School for Law, Government and Justice chose to name their organization after me.»

The anti-immigrant and «juvenile» rhetoric of the 2016 presidential campaign is driving an increase in bullying and fear among students in the nation's schools, according to a new report by Teaching Tolerance, a project of the left - leaning Southern Poverty Law Center.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie ceremonially signed into law a bill to allow undocumented college students to pay in - state tuition rates — AKA the DREAM Act — underscoring his position among national Republicans as a moderate on immigration.

He also supported a law in which schools have to make detailed plans to address cyberbullying, and backed the 2010 law to combat bullying and discrimination in schools among students with different backgrounds.

Among them: the legalization of same - sex marriage, passage of the SAFE Act gun control law, enactment of a $ 15 hourly minimum wage, creation of a statewide paid family leave program and the establishment of a free tuition program for some public college students.

Among the allegations in the complaint is that UAlbany violated a 1994 order by the state Supreme Court in Albany County that required any changes to the athletic program at UAlbany would be made in compliance with federal law, and that affected students would be given adequate opportunity to transfer.

The proposed L.I. in question, among other things, states that the General Legal Council will conduct an entrance exam for the admission of students to the school, and conduct interviews for all applicants who pass the Ghana School of Law Entrance Examination.

The proposed LI in question, among other things, states that the General Legal Council will conduct an entrance exam for the admission of students to the school, and conduct interviews for all applicants who pass the Ghana School of Law Entrance Examination.

one of the students would inevitably shout, sarcasm dripping from the o. Laws was clearly not among science geeks here.

Two years later, a group of more than 100 U.S. university presidents and chancellors known as the Amethyst Initiative called for a re-evaluation of the legal drinking age — citing a «clandestine» culture of heavy drinking episodes among college students as one reason that the age - 21 law is not working.

A Chicago native and perpetual graduate student — he holds degrees in law and business, among others — Kelley got the inspiration for Arete while volunteering to help the rowing team train at his old high school.

«In trying to prevent and respond to harassment,» the report continues, «school officials are confronting a problem not even acknowledged a decade ago... Harassment laws are in flux, attitudes among parents vary widely, and there is no consensus about how schools should respond to openly gay students.»

Given NCLB's focus on proficiency, one would expect the law to disproportionately influence achievement among previously low - achieving students.

For example, ESSA only slightly broadens the focus from test scores, does nothing to confront Campbell's Law, * doesn't allow for reasonable variations among students, doesn't take context into account, doesn't make use of professional judgment, and largely or entirely (depending on the choices states» departments of education make) continues to exclude the quality of educators» practice from the mandated accountability system.

If the current law's minimum competency standard produces gains among students near the proficiency threshold but disadvantages others, the rules of the accountability system need to be modified, perhaps to reward improvements across the entire achievement distribution.

New laws being passed across the country are taking aim at truant students» parents, with fines and criminal charges among the penalties.

In 2004, the French government passed a similar law concerning the ban of headscarves in schools and universities with the pretext of avoiding religious discrimination among students (Gandley, 2010).

Justice Breyer noted in his opinion, «Under these circumstances, the more detailed the Court's supervision becomes, the more likely its law will engender further disputes among teachers and students.»

With respect to the research on test - based accountability, Principal Investigator Jimmy Kim adds: «While we embrace the overall objective of the federal law — to narrow the achievement gap among different subgroups of students — NCLB's test - based accountability policies fail to reward schools for making progress and unfairly punish schools serving large numbers of low - income and minority students.

On the other hand, recent evidence suggests that «No Pass, No Drive» laws — which make obtaining (or keeping) a driver's license conditional on school performance — reduce chronic absenteeism among high school students.

Research confirms that, by requiring states that had not previously implemented school accountability systems to do so, No Child Left Behind worked to generate modest improvements in student learning, concentrated in math and among the lowest - performing students — precisely those on whom the law was focused.

Among the pluses: Florida's excellent accountability system for schools; a longitudinal database containing student data from pre-K through age 20; a strong charter - school law; special - education vouchers; and a tax - credit program for corporate donations to private - school scholarship programs.

The task force has identified just four functions that are essential to its role in education: creating and disseminating information on school performance in each classroom and program effectiveness, including information on individual student performance; enforcing civil rights laws; providing financial support to high - need students; and enhancing competition among providers.

This would include, among other things, changing states» charter laws to allow the participation of private schools, developing a student - based funding formula for education, and establishing clear rules for ensuring that new Catholic (and other private) charter schools are able to maintain sufficient autonomy while being held accountable for results.

Washington was among the 43 states and the District of Columbia that the Department of Education freed since 2011 from sanctions placed on schools and districts that fail to meet the law's timeline for improving student test scores.

As amended, the law required, among various other provisions, retention in grade 3 with intensive interventions for students who did not exhibit the requisite level of reading proficiency.

Currently, the law requires students to meet one of seven requirements for eligibility, among which includes having previously attended public school — unless you are entering kindergarten or the first grade.

Fielding questions from members of a House Appropriations subcommittee, she said that states should decide how to address chronic absenteeism, mental health issues and suicide risks among students and that states should also decide whether children taking vouchers are protected by federal special - education law.

Standouts among the states are Delaware, which passed a law last year raising admission standards to the highest in the country, and Rhode Island, which will eventually require that each class of students at its education schools score in the top third of everyone taking college entrance exams.

The Stanford Law and Policy Lab and Stanford Law's Youth & Education Law Project (YELP), on behalf of the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA), released a guide today to address increasing student absences and decreasing parental participation in California's public charter schools among immigrant families in the wake of recent federal policy changes.

Federal law requires schools test at least 95 percent of students, both overall and among certain demographics — including minorities, students with disabilities and those with limited English proficiency — since high participation rates paint a more accurate picture of student performance and help identify achievement gaps.

Example projects: Ms. Hassel co-authored, among others, numerous practical tools to redesign schools for instructional and leadership excellence; An Excellent Principal for Every School: Transforming Schools into Leadership Machines; Paid Educator Residencies, within Budget; ESSA: New Law, New Opportunity; 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best; Opportunity at the Top; Seizing Opportunity at the Top: How the U.S. Can Reach Every Student with an Excellent Teacher; Teacher Tenure Reform; Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance; «The Big U-Turn: How to bring schools from the brink of doom to stellar success» for Education Next; Try, Try Again: How to Triple the Number of Fixed Failing Schools; Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success; School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What Works When?

NCSECS also worked directly on the law's improved charter program which now requires that states applying for innovation funds include in their plan how they will recruit, admit and retain students with disabilities along with all other students among several other prerequisites.

«Our school grading law will give triple the weight to improved student achievement among our lowest - performing students, meaning the focus of our schools will, and should be, to help all struggling students and quickly narrow the achievement gap,» said Larry Behrens, a spokesman for the New Mexico education department.

DeBose and Vergara are among nine students challenging state laws on teacher dismissal, seniority and tenure that they say violate their right to an effective education.

Among these are the implementation of LCFF, with all school districts approving their Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAPs) by July 1, the primary election for Superintendent of Public Instruction, the deadline for districts» administration of pilot versions of Common Core State Standards tests, and a ruling in the Vergara lawsuit, around teacher tenure and job protection laws and students» right to access equal education.