Sentences with phrase «law school capacity»

Approximately 45 % of this increase is from increased Ontario law school capacity, approximately 25 % is from foreign - trained Canadians and approximately 25 % is from foreign - trained immigrants.

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The influence of birth was so great that many Muslims later became convinced that one did not need to look back to the original sources of the Qur» an and the Sunnah, for they believed wrongly that no one in these Later days has a capacity for reasoning equal to that of the founders of the schools of law.
Some schools, like Law and Government HS, are already at capacity or overcrowded.
«The operational influence and control exercised by Andrew Pallotta and Carl Korn and the capacity in which he serves each entity strongly suggest the activities of the Fund for Great Public Schools constitute «coordination» under NYS election law,» Cox said in the complaint.
Too much of the assistance that was provided through the law was spread too thinly to have the kind of impact to help schools build the capacity that they needed to improve instruction and see long - term gains in student achievement.
«Even in countries with strong national policies and laws,» says co-author Susan Garnett Russell, «several factors result in an implementation gap including lack of capacity in government schools, low levels of capacity among civil servants, autonomy of local and school administrators, and discrimination and xenophobia by the host communities.»
These annual volumes make assertions about empirical facts («students» scores on the state tests used for NCLB are rising»; or «lack of capacity is a serious problem that could undermine the success of NCLB») and provide policy recommendations («some requirements of NCLB are overly stringent, unworkable, or unrealistic»; «the need for funding will grow, not shrink, as more schools are affected by the law's accountability requirements»).
Last summer, the state legislature passed a law saying that schools with selective enrollment — such as centers for gifted children — and those considered to be operating over capacity did not have to accept transfers from the poorly performing schools.
States including California, Colorado, Georgia, Michigan, and Nebraska have ruled out state takeovers for schools in restructuring, because either state law does not permit it or the state department of education lacks the capacity to manage a significant number of schools.
In California, the law sounds straightforward enough: «A charter school shall admit all pupils who wish to attend the school,» with seats awarded by lottery if demand exceeds capacity.
The school lotteries, which are required under the state's charter law when a school is over capacity, provide a way to answer the common complaint that the charter school applicants are «different» from their peers in the traditional public schools.
Utah law allows non-resident students to attend a district school if that school or class has excess capacity.
The Education Practices Commission may suspend the educator certificate of any person as defined in s. 1012.01 (2) or (3) for up to 5 years, thereby denying that person the right to teach or otherwise be employed by a district school board or public school in any capacity requiring direct contact with students for that period of time, after which the holder may return to teaching as provided in subsection (4); may revoke the educator certificate of any person, thereby denying that person the right to teach or otherwise be employed by a district school board or public school in any capacity requiring direct contact with students for up to 10 years, with reinstatement subject to the provisions of subsection (4); may revoke permanently the educator certificate of any person thereby denying that person the right to teach or otherwise be employed by a district school board or public school in any capacity requiring direct contact with students; may suspend the educator certificate, upon an order of the court or notice by the Department of Revenue relating to the payment of child support; or may impose any other penalty provided by law, if the person:
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.
A better understanding of the law will enhance your leadership capacity and help promote equal educational opportunity in your school.
By law, charter schools must admit all students who wish to attend the school and must institute a public lottery for admissions if the number of students interested in attending the school exceeds the school's capacity.
Mr Laws added: «In making these allocations this government is continuing to target funding effectively, based on local needs, using data we have collected from local authorities about the capacity of schools and forecast pupil projections.»
Lottery Information: Charter School Law states that if the number of completed New Hampshire applications submitted to a charter school exceeds the capacity of the school, eligible applicants must have a fair and equal chance of being admitted through a loSchool Law states that if the number of completed New Hampshire applications submitted to a charter school exceeds the capacity of the school, eligible applicants must have a fair and equal chance of being admitted through a loschool exceeds the capacity of the school, eligible applicants must have a fair and equal chance of being admitted through a loschool, eligible applicants must have a fair and equal chance of being admitted through a lottery.
State law says the ASD will absorb schools and districts it has the «capacity» to handle.
In that capacity, she developed education law courses for K - 12 school leaders and presented them throughout New Jersey.
Denise Juneau, Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction, said her office doesn't have the capacity to assist an increasing number of schools, so she froze the proficiency bar for Montana schools at the 2010 levels of 83 % for reading and 68 % for math — a violation of federal law.
As the law aged and those consequences rose, it became less and less politically acceptable to tell so many schools to improve, let alone expect states or districts to have the technical capacity to help them do it.
In that capacity, he wrote a weekly blog for U.S. News; conducted monthly webinars for a wide range of audiences; advised employers, law schools and professional organizations; and worked with Congress and the Department of Education on federal legislation and regulations.
After decades of essentially no change, the annual capacity of the Ontario law schools has increased by 40 % over the last fifteen years.
In 1972, the annual capacity of the Ontario law schools was in the range of 1,000 to 1,100 students [11].
Yet, when it comes to advancing one's earning capacity, most of the folks intelligent and driven enough to attend law school are much better off investing in their education than in business equipment.
Law school intensifies those qualities, diminishing our capacity to bring our full humanity into our work.
This will prompt law schools to think about creating graduates who have those core legal capacities but who also bring some other legal skills to the table.
In winter 2014, I taught the Dell case for the first time and was fortunate to have a student who worked for Dell in a technical capacity before coming to law school.
The Legal Broadcast Network covers a disturbing trend, where minority enrollment is dropping in law schools even as capacity rises:
I have successfully completed ADR in Healthcare, and the following courses as a continual learner: Health Law certificate course, Prosecuting and Defending Regulated health professionals, Health Privacy Law, Small Claims Court Processes, Personal Injury and Consent and Capacity Law through Osgoode Hall Law School and the ADR certificate course through the University of Windsor.
Within months of their arrival in law school, students demonstrate new capacities for understanding legal processes, for seeing both sides of legal arguments, for sifting through facts and precedents in search of the more plausible account, for using precise language, and for understanding the applications and conf licts of legal rules.
In recent years, there has been a growing sentiment within the legal education community that the Accreditation Standards of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar should be reframed to focus more heavily on «outcome measures» — accreditation criteria that concentrate on whether the law school has fulfilled its goals of imparting certain types of knowledge and enabling students to attain certain types of capacities, as well as achieving whatever other specific mission (s) the law school has adopted.
While in law school, he became determined to pursue a career in a diversified legal capacity.
Following law school, 15 years in marketing — business development capacities for several of the world's largest professional services firms (management consulting, law, and real estate) and a few years as a CMO and early stage investor in technology startups, Jay co-founded Platform Strategy and Elite Lawyer Management.
But my belief in both the capacity and the willingness of law schools to educate intelligent, humane, client - centred practitioners is tempered by three decades of disappointment and disillusionment.
One wouldn't expect a trade association based on the membership of individual existing law schools to argue in its official capacity, say, that some 20 or more of them ought to shut down.
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If it is true that «admired lawyers» are a monolithic class determined by the admittedly admirable characteristics set out by Ms Brooks, then LSUC should be ensuring that all areas of the province have equal access to law school graduates who have the capacity to grow to be both admired and admirable.
Until the mid»60s, the capacity of the Ontario law schools expanded at the same rate as did the other university faculties.
and two letters of reference from law school professors or from attorneys with whom you have worked who can assess your capacity for advanced legal study in taxation
Since leaving the University of Minnesota Law School, I continued my research at the Emory University School of Law in the capacity of Associate Director of the Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution and Director of the Consensus Project.
Today, I want speak to those law students who will be returning to school after spending the summer gaining some type of professional legal experience, whether working for pay in some capacity, completing an unpaid internship, or earning law school credit as an extern.
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