Sentences with phrase «at the law school level»

At the Law School level we deal with issues of funding and technical competency, we have some faculty members to whom technology is an essential part of their teaching and research; we have others that have eschewed technology and a larger group that falls somewhere in between.

Gallant points out that the CBA Futures Report identified that the future of the law practice will be lawyers acting more as guides and partners in helping clients resolve disputes, and Bayer argues there should be mandatory training in different dispute resolution options at the law school level and greater conversation about the value of the different processes.

SoLI was an exciting conference on the budding innovations in the legal industry starting at the law school level to better prepare for the constantly changing practice of law, better serve clients in a more efficient, business - minded way and increase connections in the industry.

The session topics started at the law school level, asking how we can better prepare students to enter the ever - changing legal profession.

In a similar trend towards fostering ideas and innovation, the Canadian Bar Association wants to hear your ideas about how we can better train lawyers, both at the law school level and in their lifelong careers, to meet the needs of a changing legal landscape.

At the law school level, faculties must facilitate a learning environment where students are encouraged to participate in clinical opportunities and create their own initiatives that promote access to justice.

Not exact matches

Roy D. Simon, a professor emeritus of legal ethics at Hofstra University School of Law, suggested that the practice has helped «level the playing field» by providing resources for people to mount cases against big institutions that would be impossible otherwise.

«The school shooting in Parkland shocked and horrified the nation, but the community and law enforcement at all levels have shown resilience and determination,» Attorney General Sessions said in the release.

The treatment of the Nazi period in all its aspects - Hitler's rise to power; his establishment of a dictatorship in Germany; the abolition of the rule of law; the persecution of all kinds of political opponents; the racially motivated persecution of the Jews, culminating in the Holocaust; the reticence and opposition of German citizens; and, Germany's instigation of World War II - is compulsory teaching matter at all types of schools in Germany and at all levels of education.

game officials be given, and a power conferred on game officials by laws at the state level in only 12 states, and by rule at the high school level by the National Federation of State High School Associschool level by the National Federation of State High School AssociSchool Associations

The laws of every state now mandate - at least at the high school level - that athletes with suspected concussion not only be removed from the game or practice in which they are participating, but be barred from returning to play that same day, and obtain written authorization to return to play from a health care professional with expertise in the identification, diagnosis, and management of concussion.

The law still prohibits schools from serving deep - fried foods and the sale of sodas at all grade levels.

The survey also found that eight in ten support a requirement that an athlete be evaluated and cleared by a doctor before being allowed to return to play sports after suffering a concussion (as is now required by law, at least at the high school level, in virtually every state).

However, states like Pennsylvania have stringent laws where approval must be given at the state level before your child can leave the public school system.

As long as Cuomo's cap stays in place, it will continue bending the property - tax curve lower — especially in school districts, where the law gives a simple majority of voters the power to absolutely freeze tax levies at prior - year levels.

The new school governance law passed by the state Legislature this summer gives parents and UFT members new tools to hold the DOE accountable and to have input into policy at the central and school levels.

The Lex Club was largely the result of the experiences of a group of young college and law school graduates who wanted to get involved in the Democratic Party, and had their eyes opened — fast — about politics at the local level.

At 9:05 a.m., First Lady McCray will kick off the second convening of Cities Thrive, a network of nearly 200 cities committed to driving mental health reform on local and national levels, New York Law School, Auditorium, 185 West Broadway, Manhattan.

This project will allow our schools to share real time audio, video and data with law enforcement at the county, town and village levels, to respond to incidents in the most effective manner possible, as they work to mitigate an emergency situation.»

A recent study from the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital done in conjunction with researchers from Colorado School of Public Health at the University at Colorado and Temple University used data from a large, national sports injury surveillance system to determine the effect of state - level TBI laws on trends of new and recurrent concussions among US high school athSchool of Public Health at the University at Colorado and Temple University used data from a large, national sports injury surveillance system to determine the effect of state - level TBI laws on trends of new and recurrent concussions among US high school athschool athletes.

Most often discrimination occurred in the sphere of intimate social relationships, although they also reported high levels of discrimination at school, in the workplace, and from health care providers and law enforcement officials.

Henry Greely, a bioethicist at Stanford Law School in Palo Alto, California, worries that patients will not receive the same level of counseling as the study's participants did from a busy doctor or through a genetic - testing company's online report.

So far, the climate science used in courts has focused mostly on overall trends and gradual processes such as sea level rise, said Michael Burger, executive director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School in New York, who said he has no financial stake in climate change litigation.

The law itself set a high bar for these indicators, saying that they must be «valid, reliable, and reportable statewide»; they would also need to be able to be disaggregated at the school level by student subgroup.

But in May 2002, the state legislature made one of its boldest moves, revising the School Code, the state's education law, to require 3rd - grade students to score at the Level - 2 benchmark or above on the reading portion of the FCAT in order to be promoted to 4th grade.

Over the last five years, RIMA has marshaled local and national philanthropy; recruited school operators and educators into Rhode Island; provided staff support for facilities identification, finance, and development; formed and advocated for improved education policies at both the state and local levels; and served as a «help center» for questions about state laws, regulations, practices, and culture.

The good news is that, in large part because of NCLB and the accountability measures that federal law has encouraged at all levels of school reform — not to mention the dogged efforts of Diane Ravitch and Sol Stern to keep Bloomberg and Klein on their toes — these arguments are smarter and more refined — and, yes, despite public relations — more transparent.

Early on in the implementation of this new law, many people at the local and state levels have said that public school choice and supplemental services are sanctions.

Academic learning that comes to mind includes more prosaic elements of law, such as contract vs criminal vs administrative law; the developmental history of their own city; recent (50 years) political history of their city; basics of land law; current vs past thinking in urban planning; specific budgetary investigations at both the state and local level; school funding law in their state; essentials of Leadership, EPA impacts on dismantling abandoned structures; economic price theory; or the competitive strengths and weaknesses of their own city or region.

At the high school level, the programs tended to be either career - oriented (medical careers, law and criminal justice, communications and mass media, hotel and restaurant) or schools with some sort of entrance criteria.

Hickok: As the school year continues, I think we have to balance the concern of getting this law fully implemented with the pragmatic challenges of managing change at the local level.

About that Penna (2004, p. 23) says: «The current LDB (Brazilian guidelines for law), stating that «art education will be obligatory curriculum at various levels of basic education in order to promote the cultural development of students» (Law 9394/96 — Art. 26 paragraphs 2), provides a space for the arts in schools, as established in 1971 with the inclusion of art education in the full curricullaw), stating that «art education will be obligatory curriculum at various levels of basic education in order to promote the cultural development of students» (Law 9394/96 — Art. 26 paragraphs 2), provides a space for the arts in schools, as established in 1971 with the inclusion of art education in the full curriculLaw 9394/96 — Art. 26 paragraphs 2), provides a space for the arts in schools, as established in 1971 with the inclusion of art education in the full curriculum.

At issue was the level of services federal law requires school districts to provide students with disabilities.

Further, there is currently no provision in any state's laws or at the federal level for students to attend cybercharter schools that are out of state in the sense of having no physical place of business within a state.

Under the law, every child was supposed to be doing math and reading at grade level by this school year — a nearly impossible task.

To make adequate yearly progress, or AYP, under the federal law, schools and districts must meet annual targets for the percentage of students who score at least at the proficient level on state reading and mathematics tests, both for the student population as a whole and for certain subgroups of students.

He currently teaches graduate level school law courses at Ramapo College and has previously taught at Rutgers University and New Jersey City University.

Under current law, a state must determine the average yearly progress (AYP) for all students and subgroups at the school, LEA, and state level; AYP standards mandate specified thresholds of performance with respect to assessments and graduation rates.

To ensure that low - income schools are funded at equal levels with their more affluent counterparts, Congress should update the law and close the comparability loophole in the following three ways:

☐ Is overseen by an elected school board ☐ Submits to a financial audit on a regular basis ☐ Follows state class - size mandates ☐ Adheres to health, safety, and civil rights laws ☐ Teaches a curriculum aligned to state standards ☐ Is a brick - and - mortar school (not an online one) ☐ Doesn't teach religion ☐ Is in session at least six hours a day, 180 days a year ☐ Follows state teacher - pay guidelines ☐ Participates in annual assessments ☐ Has at least one librarian, nurse, and counselor ☐ Does not practice selective admissions ☐ Demonstrates at least minimal growth in student achievement ☐ Employs unionized teachers ☐ Keeps student suspensions to a minimal level

As members of the National Council of School Attorneys, the Georgia Council of School Attorneys and the Education Law Section of the State Bar, the firm stays current on all legal issues at the national and state level.

One positive note is that federal law now requires school districts to publicly report on per - student spending at the individual school level, not just at the district level as previously required.

Input and flexible decision - making at the local level is encouraged to fulfill each state's obligations to the law which goes into full effect in the 2017 - 18 school year.

The State Board of Education and / or state legislature could pass a rule and / or law that would require that the state issue disaggregated school level data with an «n - size» of 16 (as is in our ESSA plan) at the same time any achievement data is publicly shared.

Furthermore, stringent oversight of charters at the school level is a dubious claim when the current law allows governing boards for charters as well as, when applicable, parent corporate boards that oversee multiple charters, to be composed of the following related - party combinations:

Under the new law, states and districts are required to provide comprehensive support and improvement to: the lowest - performing 5 percent of schools, high schools that fail to graduate one - third or more of their students, and schools in which subgroups perform at the same level as students in the lowest - performing schools despite local interventions.

Read to Achieve: The Read to Achieve law, enacted in 2012 as part of Senate leader Phil Berger's Excellent Public Schools Act, was designed to ensure that all students are reading at or above grade level by the end of the third grade.

It made illegal aliens ineligible for public social services, public health care services (unless in cases of emergency under federal law), and public school education at elementary, secondary, and post-secondary levels.

Scores will be used to determine whether students are performing at grade level and which schools are succeeding under the federal No Child Left Behind law.

Every 5 years following employment or entry into a contract in a capacity described in subsection (1), each person who is so employed or under contract with the school district must meet level 2 screening requirements as described in s. 1012.32, at which time the school district shall request the Department of Law Enforcement to forward the fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the level 2 screening.