Sentences with phrase «known as law students»

Its intended audience, as he explains on his blog, is that subset of consumers known as law students.

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Friends of the groom had given him the pills, known to heighten sexual sensitivity, as a joke, but his new wife — then a Yale Law student — apparently insisted that he get rid of them.

And, as Zapolsky was no doubt aware, no organization had been more dogged in raising those concerns than New America — and, in particular, a 28 - year - old law student named Lina Khan.

Every summer the Witherspoon Institute offers a seminar on the Moral Foundations of the Law, open to rising 2L and 3L students in law school, as well as those in LLM and JSD programs (and we've been known to have students in the seminar studying jurisprudence in other disciplines, like.Law, open to rising 2L and 3L students in law school, as well as those in LLM and JSD programs (and we've been known to have students in the seminar studying jurisprudence in other disciplines, like.law school, as well as those in LLM and JSD programs (and we've been known to have students in the seminar studying jurisprudence in other disciplines, like....

New York state has a law known as the Dignity for All Students Act, approved by former Gov. David Paterson and an all - Democratic - led state Legislature in 2010.

The teacher and principal evaluations aren't being carried over under the new law, known as the Every Student Succeeds Act.

Schumer called the bill a critical first step in the fight against heroin and opioids, expanding the availability of naloxone — also known as narcan — to law enforcement and first responders, improving prescription drug monitoring programs, shifting resources to identifying and treating incarcerated people suffering from addiction, and prohibiting the Department of Education from questioning students about prior drug convictions on financial aid forms.

New York state has a law known as the Dignity for All Students Act, approved by former Governor David Paterson and an all - Democratic - led state Legislature in 2010.

No, the use of student learning measures will continue to be part of teacher evaluation as required by state law.

Students should know that there are such things as the laws of nature and physics, which we believe govern every single phenomenon in the universe, even if they don't study in detail what those are.

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.

That's their job, as any student of TV's Law & Order franchise well knows.

Specifically, «[s] he said that when students, faculty, or staff move from one university to another, the new university should be alerted if the person was found to have violated provisions of a 1972 federal law targeting gender discrimination in higher education, commonly known as Title IX,» «[b] ut legal experts say it could prove tricky to craft a congressional response that reaches down to the level of university labs,» Cornwall wrote.

It's not the most promising way to kick things off (Brewer uses it to illustrate the deadly, post-party car crash that incites the no - song - and - dance law in the film's setting of Bomont, Tennessee), but its poor impression doesn't last long, as Brewer makes quick work of establishing a liberal and plausible adolescent atmosphere in which Big & Rich can be listened to just after Wiz Khalifa, an antagonist is offhandedly chewed out for using the word «fag,» and the black students nearly outnumber the white students in the high school hallways.

The current system of procedural accountability within special education law is a logical response to the problems that led Congress in 1975 to enact the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (now known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA): the total exclusion of some students with disabilities, the inadequate education of others, and the segregation of those in school from their nondisabled peers.

The EdTech plan, as it is known, includes an assessment of computer accessibility in schools as well as recommendations for making its title, Toward a New Golden Age in American Education: How the Internet, the Law, and Today's Students Are Revolutionizing Expectation, come true.

In 1999, the state legislature enacted a law that required students in grades 3 through 10 to take annual tests in reading and mathematics, known as the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test or FCAT.

At New York City's Urban Academy, students show what they know through a series of performance assessments, such as this mock trial in Constitutional Law class.

A Message from Dean Kathleen McCartney and Administrative Dean Jack Jennings (4/19/13): Dear students, faculty, and staff: As you probably already know, law enforcement officials are reporting that the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings no longer pose a threat to our community.

The goal is to get 1 million Americans — teachers, students, parents, administrators, taxpayers, law enforcement members, media, business people, community residents (collectively known as stakeholders)-- to participate.

GLSEN's research brief Laws that Prohibit the «Promotion of Homosexuality»: Impacts and Implications provides an examination of the differences in the school environment for LGBTQ students between states with laws that prohibit the positive portrayal of homosexuality in schools, known as «no promo homo» laws, and states without such lLaws that Prohibit the «Promotion of Homosexuality»: Impacts and Implications provides an examination of the differences in the school environment for LGBTQ students between states with laws that prohibit the positive portrayal of homosexuality in schools, known as «no promo homo» laws, and states without such llaws that prohibit the positive portrayal of homosexuality in schools, known as «no promo homo» laws, and states without such llaws, and states without such lawslaws.

Accountability groups shall mean, for each public school, school district and charter school, those groups of students for each grade level or annual high school cohort, as described in paragraph (16) of this subdivision comprised of: all students; students from major racial and ethnic groups, as set forth in subparagraph (bb)(2)(v) of this section; students with disabilities, as defined in section 200.1 of this Title, including, beginning with the 2009 - 2010 school year, students no longer identified as students with disabilities but who had been so identified during the preceding one or two school years; students with limited English proficiency, as defined in Part 154 of this Title, including, beginning with the 2006 - 2007 school year, a student previously identified as a limited English proficient student during the preceding one or two school years; and economically disadvantaged students, as identified pursuant to section 1113 (a)(5) of the NCLB, 20 U.S.C. section 6316 (a)(5)(Public Law, section 107 - 110, section 1113 [a][5], 115 STAT.

As many of you know, Black students are disproportionately referred to law enforcement and school - related arrests, as well as subjected to exclusionary disciplinAs many of you know, Black students are disproportionately referred to law enforcement and school - related arrests, as well as subjected to exclusionary disciplinas well as subjected to exclusionary disciplinas subjected to exclusionary discipline.

Alexandria, Va. (December 10, 2015)- The National School Boards Association (NSBA) applauds President Obama for signing into law the bipartisan reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, now known as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

The law requires that targets for percentages of students scoring above that mark, known as proficiency rates, rise annually until meeting about 100 percent proficiency in 2014.

The term «proficiency» is key because the federal No Child Left Behind law mandates that 100 percent of students must be «proficient» under state standards by 2014 — a goal that has been universally described as impossible to reach.

Last year, Washington became the first state to lose its waiver from some of the strictest requirements of that law, known as the No Child Left Behind Act, because lawmakers here refused to require school districts to use student test scores as part of evaluating teacher effectiveness.

Under the federal law that protects homeless students, known as the McKinney - Vento Act, the state's memo said that schools must enroll students right away and can work out paperwork in the ensuing weeks.

The federal education law known as ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) turns two years old in December.

The federal education law, whose most recent reauthorization is also known as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, requires schools and school divisions to meet annual objectives for increasing student achievement on statewide assessments in reading / language arts and mathematics.

The nine districts, known as California Office to Reform Education (CORE), are still in the dark as to if and when they might be exempted from some of the more stringent requirements of the federal NCLB law that among other things requires all students to be proficient in English and math by 2014.

President Obama just signed into law the bipartisan, bicameral bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, known as the Every Student Succeeds Act (S. 1177).

California's Parent Empowerment Act of 2010, known as the parent trigger law, enables parents representing more than 50 percent of students to sign a petition to force major reforms on a low - performing school, from firing the principal and half the staff to a charter conversion.

The law enabled flexibility in funding (such as principal salaries no longer are based upon school size), autonomy for small schools where they are accountable for their own AYP results, and lifting seat - time requirements to allow students to concurrently enroll in postsecondary institutions.

JULY 21, 2016 — The Georgia Department of Education has partnered with a broad group of education stakeholders to develop a state plan responsive to the Every Student Succeeds Act (gadoe.org/ESSA), the replacement for the federal law commonly known as No Child Left Behind.

Under the federal No Child Left Behind law, students attending a Title I school designated as «in need of improvement» have the right to attend a higher performing school in the district.

Our campaign has renewed energy and focus this year because of the Every Student Succeeds Act, also known as ESSA, the new federal education law.

And it includes many students with disabilities who would have been shut out of public school before passage of the 1975 law now known as the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, which guaranteed all children a «free appropriate public education.»

Several Los Angeles parents had sued the district, saying that failure to use student test scores in teacher evaluations, as they argued a state law known as the Stull Act required, was violating their children's» rights to equal educational opportunity.

In recent years, however, the federal law known as No Child Left Behind has put pressure on schools to raise scores on the standardized reading and math tests given to students starting around age 8.

He also coordinated the effort of a Los Angeles coalition of civil rights, education and community advocacy groups — known as Communities for Los Angeles Student Success, or CLASS — to use the state's new K - 12 local funding law to improve achievement for minority and low - income students.

As a special education attorney and knowing that there will be an increasing focus on charter schools, I am concerned about how well students with disabilities are served by charter schools, which must adhere to federal law, including the IDEA.

In California's plan to comply with the Every Student Succeeds Act, approved by Congress in 2015 to replace the federal No Child Left Behind Law, the state has chosen to use chronic absenteeism as another academic indicator along with test scores for grades K - 8.

The new federal education funding law, known as the Every Student Succeeds Act or ESSA, includes more than $ 1.5 billion dollars annually for grants which support blended learning.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant affirmed his preliminary ruling this week, finding that the district has violated a 40 - year - old state law, known as the Stull Act, requiring that evaluations of teachers and principals include measures of how much students learn what the state and district expects them to know.

The lawsuit demands that L.A. Unified follow a state law, known as the Stull Act, that directs school districts to use evidence of student learning in job performance reviews, including state standardized test scores.

SB 179 by Sen. José Menéndez / Rep. Ina Minjarez is known as David's Law after a San Antonio student who took his life after vicious cyberbullying.

The Every Student Succeeds Act reauthorizes the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, also known as No Child Left Behind, and is the federal law for K - 12 public education.

Federal law, known now as ESSA, or the Every Student Succeeds Act, mandates annual standardized testing in grades 3 - 8 and once in high school.

While the federal No Child Left Behind law «shined a spotlight» on the needs of the most disadvantaged students, says Petrilli, «let's not overlook their slightly less disadvantaged peers — the boys and girls who come from low - income but perhaps not as dysfunctional homes and who aspire to graduate from college and enter the middle class.»