Sentences with phrase «held by the law schools»

The day, which will include a community resource fair and free breakfast and lunch, is being held by the law school's Pro Bono Program and student - led Veterans» Rights Project.

The data held by the law schools and the profession does not appear to be 100 «proof» on this?

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Zachary Cruz, brother of Parkland school shooter Nickolas Cruz, is being harassed by law enforcement — accused of terrorizing the community, arrested for a trivial infraction, held in jail after posting bond, and all but forced to take a conviction to avoid being unfairly jailed, according to his new lawyers.

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).

Groomed by the American system for some job like the one he holds — high school at Roxbury Latin, undergrad at Yale (and president of Yale's prestigious Political Union in his last year there), law school at Harvard — he belongs to a type of quiet and careful civil servant that Caesar Augustus would have recognized.

This term, popularized by Yale Law School professor and author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Amy Chua, reflects the belief that «academic achievement reflects successful parenting,» a belief held by the vast majority of Asian parents.

Without coming to agreement on how to proceed, legislative leaders considered several legal options, including passing statutes to delay the implementation of Goodridge, a strategy outlined by Mary Ann Glendon of Harvard Law School, until a referendum on a constitutional amendment could be held in November 2006.

(New York, NY)-- A week and a half after the shooting at Marjory Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, a coalition of New York legislators and gun violence prevention advocates today urged the State Senate and Assembly to promptly hold votes on a bill sponsored by Senators Brian Kavanagh and Brad Hoylman and Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon that would empower family members and law enforcement to prevent gun violence.

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 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission, which was created as part of a sweeping school - safety law (SB 7026) signed by Gov. Rick Scott last month, will hold its initial meeting at the Broward College campus in Coconut School Public Safety Commission, which was created as part of a sweeping school - safety law (SB 7026) signed by Gov. Rick Scott last month, will hold its initial meeting at the Broward College campus in Coconut school - safety law (SB 7026) signed by Gov. Rick Scott last month, will hold its initial meeting at the Broward College campus in Coconut Creek.

Bharara asked at a breakfast held by the New York Law School on Friday morning.

School districts that feel confined by the tax cap can try to pierce it by holding special elections, but the law requires 60 percent of voters agree before the cap can be lifted.

The debate was held at New York Law School on the West Side and sponsored by Community Media (publisher of the Villager and Downtown Express).

They also claim that the city's Department of Education doesn't hold the charter chain accountable and fails to abide by state education law requiring equity in capital spending at co-located district and charter schools.

With a Ph.D. in mathematics and as a former professor of statistics at the university where he now holds a full professorship in computer science, he is one of very few technology experts to have contributed a long, invited scholarly article to a law journal published by a leading law school.

Furthermore, teachers in private elementary and secondary schools in some provinces are not required by law to hold teaching certificates.

The report, conducted by the Center on Education Policy, a Washington - based research organization that tracks implementation of the federal law, found that schools and districts are better aligning instruction and state standards, that test scores are rising, and that the number of schools labeled «in need of improvement» is holding steady.

Ruling in the Oklahoma City school desegregation case, a divided U.S. Supreme Court holds that districts that were once racially segregated by law may be freed from court - ordered desegregation plans if they have done their best to eradicate the vestiges of their discriminatory systems and have met court orders.

Under the 1944 Education Act, all state schools are required to hold daily worship, although the law is ignored by most non-faith schools.

• First, efforts to develop a civics curriculum are snagged by a basic truth about America: beyond a narrow core of shared beliefs (honesty, tolerance, obeying the law), Americans hold strong but often divergent views about the values they want their children to acquire and about the role of teachers and schools in inculcating those values.

The law signed by President Barack Obama in 2015 gives states much of the authority to hold schools and school districts accountable for student success and to implement standards and assessments.

Those plans may end up on hold if charter - school foes submit enough signatures by Wednesday to place a measure on the November ballot asking voters to repeal the charter - school law.

Second, the body that became the MCEE, the Governor's Council on Educator Effectiveness chaired by the University of Michigan's dean of the School of Education, Deborah BALL, didn't hold its first meeting until December 2012, six months after the new law (See «Gov's Council On Its Own Timeline,» 12/7/11).

One of the hottest tickets was a session led by Charlotte Danielson, the architect of a teacher - evaluation model being used in a majority of New Jersey school districts as part of the state's new tenure - reform law, which aims to hold teachers more accountable for student performance.

The school had been held up by current charter law that prohibits such targeted enrollment, but Lesniak and other Democratic leaders had recently pressed and seem poised to change the law.

Under the No Child Left Behind law, passed by Congress in 2001, states were held accountable for failing schools.

The state supreme courts in Indiana and Wisconsin held that school - voucher laws were constitutional despite the presence of Blaine amendments in their state constitutions, but state supreme courts in Arizona and Colorado have invalidated school vouchers under their Blaine amendments.30 By contrast, no state supreme court in any of the 16 states with scholarship tax credit laws has ever found them to violate a Blaine amendment.

The Louisiana Supreme Court held that spending tax funds for secular educational services from teachers employed by private schools violated three provisions of the Louisiana Constitution: the prohibition against the enactment of any law respecting an establishment of religion and two Blaine Amendments subsequently repealed in 1973.

If we receive more applications than we have seats available, we will hold a lottery for the 2018 - 19 school year as required by law.

Charter schools, which must be renewed by their authorizing entity every five years, are currently held to the standards established by AB 1137, a 2003 law that has resulted in inconsistencies in oversight and loopholes in the renewal process.

The law freed states to expand the ways they hold schools responsible for improving student success by adding at least one «nonacademic» indicator to an accountability system primarily based on standardized tests scores in reading, math and science.

If the school receives more interest forms than it has spaces for students, a lottery will be held to determine admission, as is required by law.

By law, the charter school must hold an admissions lottery, open to the public, with names drawn at random.

«Under current New Hampshire law, public schools are required to provide the opportunity for an adequate education, as defined by the Legislature, and are held accountable through laws and rules that require monitoring and review by the Department of Education.

At the same time, he said, the law approved by the Legislature last week gives considerable powers to the State Board of Education to establish procedures for how to hold school districts accountable for the money they will receive.

The law gives charter schools access to more state money while setting standards by which the state can hold charters accountable.

If the school receives more students than for which it has spots available, it is required by law to hold a blind lottery to determine which students will have the opportunity to attend.

Even as we work with states to offer flexibility from existing law, the Obama administration will support a bipartisan effort by Congress to create a law that supports a well - rounded education while holding schools, districts and states accountable for results.

Charter schools should be governed by the same federal and state laws as traditional public schools and held to the same level of accountability as traditional public schools.

A charter school is prohibited by law from discriminating in admissions and must accept every student who applies or hold a lottery if there are more applicants than the school can accommodate.

An official ceremonial signing was held by Gov. Dannel Malloy for the passage of «An Act Concerning Dissection Choice,» a new law requiring schools to excuse any student from participating or observing the dissection of any animal as part of classroom instruction.

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 yeLaw 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 yelaw 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 yelaw 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 yeLaw Record and Harvard Crimson, and holding 17 packed events throughout the 2014 - 2015 academic year!

September 2009: Washington, D.C. — The Association of Prosecuting Attorneys» first - ever conference on Prosecuting Animal Cruelty and Fighting Cases, held at George Washington University Law School and sponsored by the Animal Welfare Institute

Founded in 2001, Oceana is led by Andrew Sharpless, who «holds degrees from Harvard Law School, the London School of Economics, and Harvard College.»

A dedicated classroom teacher, Salzman was twice selected as Professor of the Year by students at Duke, where he held chairs in the Law School and the Nicholas School of the Environment.

Notwithstanding the custody arrangement and in addition to all rights and duties given to parents pursuant to Section 63-5-30, each parent has equal access and the same right to obtain all educational records and medical records of his or her minor children and the right to participate in the children's school activities and extracurricular activities that are held in public locations unless prohibited by an order of the court or State law.

Unfortunately, a recent case held that the law is drafted improperly, which led to a motorist, who admittedly whizzed by such a school bus, being acquitted of reckless driving charges.

An example of less directed leadership would be the two day Wired Justice conference held in Ontario last September and organised by Legal Aid Ontario, the Legal Services Society of British Columbia and Osgoode Hall Law School.

The Supreme Court of Canada held that students are entitled to privacy in a school environment and police do not have the right to conduct searches of public spaces when the search is not authorized by statute or at common law.

Each year, the school holds a cabaret music production organized and performed by students in the Faculty of Law.