Sentences with phrase «law school access»

As I sat in the auditorium full of law school administrators and legal service providers at my first Annual Law School Access to Justice Conference, I anticipated a long day of theoretical discussions about diversifying the profession and getting law schools more involved in access to justice initiatives in New York State.

This May, the New York State Permanent Commission on Access to Justice at New York University School of Law held its fifth annual Law School Access to Justice Conference.

Not exact matches

Fusking can be illegal under U.S. laws designed to protect access to information on networks, said Michael Risch, a professor at Villanova University School of Law in Pennsylvania.

Gov. Rick Scott signed into law sweeping changes to school safety and gun access on Friday — a measure crafted in response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shoschool safety and gun access on Friday — a measure crafted in response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shoSchool shooting.

In the aftermath of the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., elected and law enforcement officials ramped up their demands for expanded authority over the mentally ill who pose a danger, although some of the officials never mentioned curbing access to guns.

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).

• New England School of Law associate dean Victor M. Hansen offers an answer: «The fact that both the college experience and the military experience are often the first time people of this age range are independent, have access to alcohol and are interacting socially with members of the opposite sex suggests to me that we have not done enough before young people reach this age to educate, model and encourage appropriate behavior.»

In Republican - controlled legislatures, the number of laws proposed to loosen gun control increased by 75 percent, where in Democrat - controlled legislatures, the number of laws proposed to restrict gun access increased 10 percent, according to the Harvard Business School study.

No Jewish organization supported the Equal Access Act, which wrote the equal time principle into law and allowed religious students a platform from which to inject religion into the public high school environment.

The proposed rules are the second step in a larger effort to improve the foods U.S. students have access to during the school day under a 2010 child nutrition law.

A few years ago, I brought it to the attention of the food service director of my children's school district after my son got sick eating the [sic] school lunch and after the school closed down parent access to the school lunch area after they found out I went through food laws and regulations training.

Brooke ensures that the policies and practices of Maryland state and local agencies and school districts are designed to allow low - income families and individuals maximum access to nutrition programs; and that the state, counties, school districts, and community - based providers take advantage of options in federal law to maximize access and benefits.

In January 2012, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, or USDA, finalized its updated nutritional standards for school meals in keeping with the Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 (Public Law No. 111 - 296), which reauthorized the school meal programs and placed an emphasis on the need to improve access to healthy foods in schools.

Since becoming law in December 2010, it has given America's children access to healthier food options for breakfast, lunch, and throughout the school day.

Every single day Klein makes the choice to NOT protect reproductive rights for the women of New York, to NOT give working families access to great healthcare they can actually afford, and to NOT give our children desperately needed school funding, which by the way, they are owed by law.

The SMART SCHOOLS BOND ACT OF 2014, as set forth in section one of part B of chapter 56 of the laws of 2014, authorizes the sale of state bonds of up to two billion dollars ($ 2,000,000,000) to provide access to classroom technology and high - speed internet connectivity to equalize opportunities for children to learn.

«However, current law does not authorize charter schools to offer state supported pre-kindergarten programs, thereby preventing children from accessing potentially high - quality providers.»

Teacher Evaluations Go Public, Teachers» Rights Protected A new New York law ensuring that parents and the public have access to information involving how the teachers, principals and schools are performing while still respecting the educators» privacy is on the horizon.

If elected, Mr. Giardina pledged to evaluate current law enforcement programs and policies for interdiction and intervention; support 12 - step programs for addiction recovery; double the number of children and teenagers involved in after - school and sports programs sponsored by schools and faith and community - based groups; establish mentorship, apprenticeship, and internship programs that link East Hampton's youth with year - round homeowners and those who visit seasonally; create a volunteer program for those in recovery to be reintegrated into the job market; triple the number of police, firefighters, educators, and medical personnel trained to administer Narcan, and investigate the establishment of an easy - access residential treatment facility available as an alternative or supplement to incarceration.

«As a State Senator,» he explained, «I will fight for the things that matter to New Yorkers: strengthening rent laws and preserving affordable housing, increasing access to quality schools, safeguarding the environment, promoting economic and social justice, preventing violence in our communities, and creating a fairer and more accessible political process.»

A Nigerian Law School graduate denied access to the venue of the call to bar ceremony recently, Miss Firdaus Amasa, has revealed that she was prepared...

It is not about restricting people's access to the law school that will churn out quality lawyers in Ghana.

A group calling itself the Concerned LLB Graduates, has threatened to sue the General Legal Council for contempt of court, for using the recently taken entrance exams and interview to deny over seven hundred students who failed access to the Ghana Law School.

The governor could also work to change the state's charter law to include a mandate that New York City's charter students should either have access to sufficient space or that funding be made available to ensure that schools have enough money to pay for additional space, Bill Phillips, president of the Northeast Charter School Network, told Capital.

Efforts to limit access to voting, compounded by election security concerns, have created a lack of confidence in the U.S. voting system, said Myrna Perez, professor of law and director of the Brennan Center for Justice Voting Rights and Elections Project at the New York University School of Llaw and director of the Brennan Center for Justice Voting Rights and Elections Project at the New York University School of LawLaw.

Hammond, who says he battled TAMU for months to gain access to documents under a state open records law, agrees on one point with Davis: «I think that there are many other schools that have issues like Texas A&M.»

To determine whether institutions are in compliance with the law, the Office for Civil Rights looks at things such as whether women have equal access to advanced course work in high school as well as postsecondary schooling and graduate work.

«Ultimately, we found that access restrictions are not based on scientific evidence, current treatment guidelines, or clinical data,» said co-author Robert Greenwald, J.D., director of Harvard Law School's Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation.

«One might hope that free online learning opportunities would be especially appealing to students who wouldn't otherwise have access to high - quality resources,» said John Hansen of Harvard Law School, lead author of the study.

A policy for access to assisted dying by nonterminally ill patients with psychiatric conditions will put many vulnerable and stigmatized people at risk,» writes Dr. Scott Kim, a physician and bioethicist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States, with Dr. Trudo Lemmens, a professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law & the Dalla Lana School of Public Health.

A new publication from the Collaboration for Research Integrity and Transparency (CRIT) at Yale Law School and AllTrials supporters Transparency International, TranspariMED and Cochrane calls on governments to ensure that patients, doctors, and scientists can access the full results of all clinical trials.

Bain had multiple surgeries in high school, but also fought for legislation, known as Ally's Law (aka the Restroom Access Act), after she was denied access to a Chicago retail store's employee resAccess Act), after she was denied access to a Chicago retail store's employee resaccess to a Chicago retail store's employee restroom.

It was never the intention of these laws to require schools to ban teachers and students from accessing the Internet for the purpose of learning.

While former Schools Minister David Laws counselled that the «whims of here - today, gone tomorrow» politicians should not decide the direction of the school curriculum, Gibb argued «access to these wonderful novels shouldn't be the preserve of the few».

The SMART Grants — for National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent — and the Academic Competitiveness Grants were signed into law in early 2006 and became available to students starting in the 2006 - 07 school year.

These include depriving charters of full per - pupil funding; denying them access to (or financing for) facilities; placing new restrictions on existing schools or moratoriums on future growth; and weakening charter laws.

Some districts and, in some cases, entire states, are drafting new laws to ban junk food from school and encourage access to healthy offerings on campuses.

By giving these schools true control over their programs, staff, and curricula, and by opening them to all families, authors of the charter school law resurrected the true American vision of public schooling: equal access to great instruction and accountability for results.

The charter school movement turned 25 last year, yet the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools identified only 3 out of 43 states — California, Colorado, Utah — and the District of Columbia as having laws that support access to capital funding and facilities.

Allison Hertog is a member of the Step Up for Students governance board and is the founding attorney of Making School Work, a private law firm whose mission is to help parents access the right placement — public or private — for their special needs children.

Laws that provide for public schools reflect a commitment to the concept that all children should have access to an excellent K - 12 education, regardless of their race, socioeconomic status, language proficiency, academic readiness, or special education needs.

A governor who enacts a charter law may find that no school board will actually authorize such schools or allow them access to empty buildings owned by the district.

State Supreme Court Justice Francis A. Affronti ruled on Feb. 13 that, based on the legislative history and intent of the education law, the unprecedented board action conflicted with the law, which requires school boards to give access to military recruiters «on the same basis» as any other employment or college recruiters.

The proposed law would prohibit schools and libraries from providing minors access to those types of sites.

Yet, the access and use the internet is dictated more by policies of school governing bodies than the law.

That's why a group of parents and students in Connecticut, with support from the nonprofit students» rights organization Students Matter, filed a case last month in federal court challenging their state's laws «that knowingly and actively prevent students from accessing even minimally acceptable public school options.»

Nina Rees, CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, said the law could be «a game - changer when it comes to giving more public school students access to high - quality charter public schools.Schools, said the law could be «a game - changer when it comes to giving more public school students access to high - quality charter public schools.schools.»

By legislative mandate, all students have access to some form of public education, and schools are required by law to serve all students.

After working for more than two decades to close the charter - school funding gap, charter advocates celebrated two victories in 2017 when Colorado and Florida both passed laws — the first in the country — mandating equitable access to certain local tax revenues for charter schools.

The most remarkable thing about the Ph.D. in Education is open access to faculty from all Harvard graduate and professional schools, including the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Harvard Kennedy School, the Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard School of Public Health.