Sentences with phrase «faced by law schools»

I am in no way absolving law schools for their role in «the articling crisis,» but if people really understood the pressures faced by law schools and law professors — that they often have no choice about increasing tuition or enrollment or focusing on research and publications — they may understand the issues a bit better.

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Teachout, a Fordham Law School professor, next month faces Democrat Will Yandik in a primary for the party's nomination in the district, which is being vacated by Republican Rep. Chris Gibson.

Yemenis face serious mental health risks, but the issue is being neglected, says a new study released today by Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the Sana'a Center for Strategic Studies, Columbia Law School's Human Rights Clinic.

Howe, later a senior lecturer at the Ed School from 1982 to 1994, and his colleague, David Sealey, faced the daunting task of verifying that schools receiving federal aid were indeed abiding by desegregation laws.

The event, which took place November 3, 4, and 5 at HGSE and the Sheraton Commander Hotel on Garden Street in Cambridge, brought the AME conference together, for the first time, with the annual meeting sponsored by Harvard Law School (HLS) and Facing History and Ourselves, a nonprofit organization that helps increase student and teacher awareness of racism, prejudice, and anti-Semitism by examining the historic conditions that led to examples of collective violence such as the Holocaust.

The Kohlberg Memorial Lecture, which is hosted every year by the AME, was delivered by [HGSE and HLS faculty member] Martha Minow, whose work at the Law School is involved with Facing History and also with students from HGSE.»

Under the law, for the first time, schools were required to test every student annually in math and reading in grades K - 8, and schools had to make «adequate yearly progress» — as measured by student test scores — or face increasingly heavy penalties.

If the Assembly bill's provisions become law, six Madison schools could potentially face sanctions if the schools» performance continues, according to DPI data posted online by the School Administrators Alliance.

The No Child Left Behind law, the major education reform effort of the last decade, is overlaid by a gloss of civil rights rhetoric, but it has done nothing to address the concentration of black and Latino students in the same schools, and the lack of resources they face.

According to the account, the Republicans believe «the [Dept. of Education] is trying to reassert federal control by exceeding its authority with a rule that would require state and local spending in low - income schools receiving Title I funds to be equal or greater than non-Title I schools... and force schools to include teacher salaries when measuring spending between Title I and non-Title I schools...» At the same time, the story notes that «King is facing pressure from civil rights groups who want to ensure the new education law does not deprive low - income students of equal funding.»

When it was time for Trujillo to transition her daughter Michelle from the fourth to the fifth grade, she was faced with the hard reality that KIPP LA, by law, could not provide an enrollment preference from KIPP elementary schools to KIPP middle schools.

This is particularly true for the form of vouchers espoused by DeVos, in which recipient schools would face no accountability and could even force students to waive their civil rights under federal law.

The proposal, which was prompted by the scandal enveloping the Los Angeles Unified School District over the long career of former Miramonte Elementary School teacher Mark Berndt, who now faces 23 charges of what the law politely calls lewd acts upon a child, arose the ire of the two unions because it would have allowed school districts to suspend teachers accused of alleged sexual and substance abuse crimes without pay and allowed dismissals to be presented before an administrative law judge instead of the usual three - person panel of the state's Professional Competence commission that is largely slated in favor of NEA anSchool District over the long career of former Miramonte Elementary School teacher Mark Berndt, who now faces 23 charges of what the law politely calls lewd acts upon a child, arose the ire of the two unions because it would have allowed school districts to suspend teachers accused of alleged sexual and substance abuse crimes without pay and allowed dismissals to be presented before an administrative law judge instead of the usual three - person panel of the state's Professional Competence commission that is largely slated in favor of NEA anSchool teacher Mark Berndt, who now faces 23 charges of what the law politely calls lewd acts upon a child, arose the ire of the two unions because it would have allowed school districts to suspend teachers accused of alleged sexual and substance abuse crimes without pay and allowed dismissals to be presented before an administrative law judge instead of the usual three - person panel of the state's Professional Competence commission that is largely slated in favor of NEA anschool districts to suspend teachers accused of alleged sexual and substance abuse crimes without pay and allowed dismissals to be presented before an administrative law judge instead of the usual three - person panel of the state's Professional Competence commission that is largely slated in favor of NEA and AFT.

According to FairTest, «(H) igh - stakes testing is far more likely to lower the quality of curriculum, instruction and school climate in schools serving children of color: Facing high - stakes test - based accountability under NCLB and state laws, schools narrow curriculum by reducing or dropping untested subjects.

1987 Art — to — Wear Fashion Show, Boutique and Luncheon, The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, USA Malerei — Wandmalerei, Grazer Kunstverein, Stadtmuseum Graz, Austria Drawings from the Eighties, Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA Art Against Aids, M. Knoedler & Co, New York, USA (Benefit exhibition and auction for the American Foundation for Aids Research) Avant Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum, USA Romanticism and Classicism, The QCC Art Gallery, Queensborough Community College, Bayside, New York, USA Working Woman, The Harcus Gallery, Boston, USA Stations, IAC (Centre International d'art Contemporain de Montreal), Canada The Success of Failure, Laumeier Sculpture Park and Gallery, Saint Louis, USA, traveled to Johnson Gallery, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont; University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ (Exhibition organized and circulated byIndependent Curators Incorporated, New York) The Importance of Drawing, Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, USA Still Life: Beyond Tradition, Visual Arts Museum, New York, USA Not So Plain Geometry, and Prints in Paris, Crown Point Press, New York, USA Faces, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, USA (Prints by Alex Katz, Francesco Clemente, Chuck Close and Pat Steir) and Recent Publications D'ornamentationi, Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York, USA A Decade of Pattern: Prints, Pieces and Prototypes from the Fabric Workshop, The Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA Stephen Antonakos, Michael Singer, Robert Stackhouse, Pat Steir, 19th Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil (Panorama of seven drawings by Steir) For 25 Years: Crown Point Press, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Drawings, Sylvia Cordish Fine Art, Baltimore, USA, The West Company, St. Paul, MN, Art and the Law (Traveling exhibition) Images of Stone: Two Centuries Artists» Lithographs, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, USA, traveled toSan Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX; Tyler Museum of Art, TX; Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO..

Let's face it: the majority of BFA students, realizing that the artworld is fickle and that commercial success is elusive, will quit making art by the time they turn thirty to do something more practical — like go to law school or get an MBA.

The Climate Science Legal Defense Fund is hosting talks on the legal attacks faced by climate scientists, on Thursday, May 7th, from 6 - 7:30 pm at Columbia Law School.

«ABC News» featured Haub Law School Professor Mimi Rocah in «Trump lawyer Michael Cohen is facing «epic battle» by prosecutors for his cooperation: Alan Dershowitz»

After a bout of depression and anxiety forced him to quit law school — a circumstance also faced by founding father William Samuel Johnson, who served as a judge on Connecticut's colonial supreme court — Webster later found another lawyer to tutor him and passed the bar examination in 1781.

It is a form of discrimination, and schools like Osgoode have been able to alleviate some of the effects of this by looking past the LSAT scores to encapsulate an assessment of their applicants by looking at things like community involvement academic performance, and challenges faced by certain minorities in applying to Law school.

Lawyers who participate in these activities, law firms that participate, who become part of the thought leadership and who are seen by their clients as investing in thought leadership and partnering with law schools like ours to help to better train and educate the next generation of lawyers who are thought to be thinking seriously about the challenges facing not just lawyers of the legal profession but our clients, I think those kinds of lawyers will be rewarded because clients at all levels know that it's an increasingly complex and sophisticated and challenging world and they're looking for lawyers who understand that and can help them with their problems.

Ellen is particularly known for her expertise on the challenges faced by women in the profession and has been invited to address numerous audiences — including the Department of Justice Canada, the Center for Legal Inclusiveness, Harvard Law School's Women's Leadership Summit, the Center for Women in the Law, the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law's Women Leadership & Equality Program and bar and women attorney's groups on the national and local level throughout the US and Europe — on strategies for advancing women attorneys.

This recent article seems to imply that law schools have reduced their incoming class size because of the employment issues faced by recent graduates.

So if you're a young lawyer and writer, as I am, facing a depressed job market, or you're a law student, and you find yourself challenged by how difficult law school can be, take heart.

Work with stakeholders such as law firms, legal associations and law schools to develop policies and procedures to address challenges faced by racialized lawyers;

But the Indiana University Maurer School of Law's new Center on Global Legal Profession will break fresh ground, by «focusing on the unprecedented challenges lawyers are facing around the world and develop research and training materials to assist current and future attorneys in their understanding of international legal systems.»

Students who wish to attend TWU law school are required by the code of conduct to refrain from having sex with their OWN SPOUSE, if they are legally married to a person of the same sex, or face being kicked out of law school.

The downturn in the legal market, the decline in enrolments in the law schools, and the questioning of the value and relevance of an expensive law degree are issues faced by law firms, educators and regulators.

It is my contention that the problems that lawyers face upon graduation with dim career prospects are not solely, or principally, created by the law school, but are rather a culmination of factors.

Age old problem, faced by every small business person, and not covered in law school.

The problem we're facing is that certain law schools (Ottawa, Queen's, Bond University) are increasing the supply of would - be lawyers at a time when demand for legal services is shrinking (a point that was driven home last week by the implosion of Heenan Blaikie).

Private pro bono clinics, law school clinics and clinics run by legal aid organizations are the first point of face - to - face contact with the justice system for most people who don't have a law firm on personal retainer.

To set the table for this piece, I (Paul) recently spent time with a group of very senior medical school professors in New Haven, who shared some of the challenges facing medicine — similar to those faced by law.

BLSA Canada and its chapters at law schools nationwide are concerned by the challenges faced by the black community in the legal profession.

At the culmination of the ten - module program, course participants will convene with instructors in a workshop at Duke Law School in Durham, N.C., for a deep - dive into the practical challenges faced by today's practitioners.

You can certainly argue about the problems faced by racialized communities and how that would impact their odds of getting into a Canadian law school, and you can put forward proposals to help them get in.

The existing rates of debt experienced by graduating students suggest that a large majority of students graduating from Ontario law schools will be faced with significant carry - forward debt burdens.

And of course by that time these lawyers and others, these borrowers can face debt loads as we mentioned before that are far higher than the amount they originally borrowed, because of all the money that they had to borrow to go to law school, and we're putting these young lawyers and their futures into financial peril if they are found at the end of 10 years to be ineligible when they had every reason to believe they had been eligible.

Notable cases that have upheld the constitutional protection of religiously - based practices include: the right of Jehovah's Witness» parents to deny a blood transfusion that was medically advised for their daughter; the right of condominium owners to build dwellings on their balconies for the Jewish festival of «Succot» in the face of by - laws prohibiting construction on balconies; and the right of a Sikh boy to wear a «kirpan» (a dagger with a metal blade) to school despite a school - board prohibition of weapons.

Schools are bound by law by the Equality Act of 2010 to ensure that students don't face any form of discrimination.

Schools are bound by law by the Equality Act of 2010 to ensure that students don't face any form of racial or religious discrimination.