Sentences with phrase «law school credit»

Because of the similarities between this course and the negotiation course taught at the Fuqua School of Business, a law student may not receive law school credit for both courses.

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.

We will provide assistance to the selected applicants in seeking outside funding or law school credit, and in finding free or inexpensive housing.

Students selected for the program work as an extern full - time (32 - hours per week) during their third year of law school for a nonprofit or government agency for which they receive law school credit toward their graduation.

Independent Legal Research (LAWS 7846) Form Petition for Law School Credit for Non-Law Course * Petition for Extra Externship Credits Study Abroad Form Leeds School of Business MBA Elective Course Form

Here in Manitoba, we have opted for a core group of experienced staff research lawyers, supplemented by third year law students who clerk with the Court for law school credit.

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School board member Greg Okon noted the district had discussed installing cameras for a while and credited Hughes, and his experience with law enforcement, for making progress and helping keep district security up to date.

To graduate high school, Wisconsin students have to take a health class worth half a credit that may or may not include nutrition; if it does, a bill recently signed into law by Gov. Scott Walker says nutrition instruction has to be based on guidelines that are updated every five years by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

NYSUT was opposed to the tax credit, but the labor union had its hands full on other key issues, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo's effort to once again overhaul teacher evaluations, weaken teacher tenure laws and strengthen charter schools in addition to the perennial push for more school aid.

The coalition has already announced measures to limit tax credits, scrap the Child Trust Fund, for the part - privatisation of Royal Mail, to scrap National Insurance increases for employers but maintain them for employees, cut by 10,000 the planned extra university places, provide for a greater role for the private sector in «free schools» and a «review» of all employment law to «maximise flexibility» amongst other measures.

Mr. Cuomo has kept lawmakers in Albany in hopes of reaching a deal on rent regulations and other matters, including expiring laws governing mayoral control of city schools and the 421a real estate tax credit, but so far there has been no movement on those issues.

Cuomo had initially linked stronger rent control laws to the passage of an education tax credit, which was pushed heavily by Senate Republicans and private - school backers.

But Kolb says he knows talks are going on about the top two remaining issues, renewing New York City's rent laws and an education tax credit for donors who give up to a million dollars to fund scholarships for poor children in private schools and fund afterschool activities at public schools.

The law also included tax credits for employers who hire seasonal employees ages 16 to 19 who are still in school.

Meanwhile, Libous returns to the Capitol while state lawmakers in both the Republican - led Senate and Democratic - controlled Assembly sort out an extension of rent control laws for New York City as well as an extension of mayoral control of New York City schools and the creation of an education tax credit.

The governor has linked the extension of rent control laws to the creation of a tax credit meant to spur donations to public schools and scholarship programs benefiting private and parochial schools.

A for - profit network of schools and the family behind it have agreed to pay the state more than $ 4.3 million in a settlement after having spent state funds, intended to pay for special education preschool, on credit card bills, maintenance of a boat and a son's law school tuition, as well as claiming false tax deductions.

Governor Andrew Cuomo on May 31 signed into law a bill that enables public school teachers and other public employees who are honorably discharged veterans and have five years in their civilian jobs to purchase up to three years of service credit toward their pensions.

De Blasio insisted the city would keep working to get hundreds of schools with little arts presence up to compliance, as state law mandates that middle and high school students earn at least one credit of arts instruction from full - time, certified teachers.

Trustees of Agudath Israel of America, an Orthodox Jewish organization, told Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz, a Sheepshead Bay Democrat, during an Albany meeting in April that he would be the target of a 2016 primary if the education investment tax credit, a bill that would give a tax break to people and companies donating money to public schools and private school scholarship funds, does not become law this session.

LAW • Lawyers are up in arms about the Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli's move to strip state public - pension credits from attorneys who did work for school and other government entities.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said today it was «premature» to comment on the framework deal Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the leaders of State Legislature this week on the city's rent laws, the 421a building tax credit and mayoral control of schools — a deal that left Mr. de Blasio all but empty handed.

Siena College has made two agreements with Albany Law School, effective this fall: students who have received a juris doctorate at Albany Law will be given up to nine credits toward finishing of a master of science in accounting degree at Siena, thus earning the MSA in under one year.

New Yorkers for Independent Action, a group that backs education law changes including a tax credit program to assist parents of children in private schools, allocated $ 139,000 on Jacobs» behalf towards the end of the contest.

In fact, New Hampshire's tax credit scholarship law allows low - income students currently attending private school to receive scholarships, though some scholarships are reserved for students transitioning out of public school.

Private school choice programs, such as vouchers, tax - credit scholarships, and education savings accounts, can provide a private school «balance» to strong charter school laws.

Second, scholarship tax - credit laws enable supporters of school choice to organize so that they can more effectively fight harmful regulations: Scholarship organizations can help both scholarship recipients and the donors mobilize against potentially harmful legislation.

In May 2014, a study by Andrew Catt of the Friedman Foundation found that scholarship tax - credit laws generally imposed very few additional regulations on schools when first enacted and over time.

Dozens of other NCLB critics have reached similar conclusions, and scads of proposals for that law's rewrite offer remedies, such as including more subjects in the accountability system and giving schools credit for student growth across the achievement spectrum.

The state of Florida gave schools that opportunity when Governor Rick Scott signed a law in 2013 permitting MOOCs to be taken for credit in any subject where the state had an end - of - course exam, such as algebra and biology.

Few jurisdictions have passed significant voucher and tax - credit legislation, and most have hedged charter laws with one or another of a multiplicity of provisos — that charters are limited in number, can only be authorized by school districts (their natural enemies), can not enroll more than a fixed number of students, get less money per pupil than district - run schools, and so on.

In a Show - Me Institute poll released in May 2007, 67 percent of Missouri voters and 77 percent of African Americans said they favored a law that would «give individuals and businesses a credit on either their property or state income taxes for contributions they make to education scholarships that help parents send their children to a school of their choice, including public, private, and religious schools.»

Thompson: The council was one of the few education organizations in Washington to support the No Child Left Behind Act and we believe the federal law deserves credit for focusing the attention of urban schools more sharply on student achievement, and increasing the national focus on educating our neediest children.

Today, twenty - eight states have passed tax credit scholarship or voucher laws that empower even the most disadvantaged students to choose Catholic schools.

The Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program (FTC) was signed into law in 2001 and opened to students from low - income families in the 2002 — 03 school year.

At least 10 Arizona organizations that receive tax - credit donations for private school scholarships have failed so far to spend at least 90 percent of their revenues on the scholarships as required by law, according to an analysis by the Arizona Republic.

Among the pluses: Florida's excellent accountability system for schools; a longitudinal database containing student data from pre-K through age 20; a strong charter - school law; special - education vouchers; and a tax - credit program for corporate donations to private - school scholarship programs.

In addition, creating new government agencies to oversee and regulate private schools receiving tax - credit scholarships could endanger the constitutional status of STC laws.

Three electives (or a combination of courses and modules totaling 12 credits), including one to two electives that relate to the student's content area from any school at Harvard, MIT, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, or the Episcopal Divinity school at Harvard, MIT, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, or the Episcopal Divinity School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, or the Episcopal Divinity SchoolSchool

The Arizona Supreme Court had previously upheld a scholarship tax - credit law, which granted dollar - for - dollar tax credits to taxpayers in return for contributions to non-profit scholarship organizations that help families send their children to the schools of their choice.

Leon County Circuit Judge George Reynolds ruled that petitioners in a lawsuit contending that the state is not adequetely funding district schools do not have standing to challenge the constitutionality of the state's scholarship tax credit law.

Currently, 17 states have laws that generate private school vouchers through a tax - credit mechanism and that divert up to $ 1 billion annually from public coffers.

Over time, laws changed to provide scholarships, tax credits, and other vehicles that tied resources to a family's preferences for schooling.

Another law I signed this year provides a tax credit to groups that donate public - and private - school scholarships for families.

Under the law, families of students with special needs can take a credit of up to $ 6,000 annually for expenses such as private school tuition and therapy services.

Arizona has a charter school law, three tax - credit scholarship programs, and an open enrollment law that allows students to choose from schools across the state, so the question of whether parents should be able to choose a school for their child is settled.

Either because of public opposition, lawsuits, or the modest scope of voucher and tax - credit scholarship laws, only some 200,000 students nationwide attend private schools through choice systems, a paltry figure compared to the 50 million students in public schools across the United States.

Arizona's Lexie's Law for Disabled and Displaced Students Tax Credit Scholarship Program (19) Tax - Credit Scholarship 62 % of average per - pupil spending in Arizona public schools $ 4,447

The Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit Program, a product of a law signed by Gov. Tom Corbett earlier this month, may alleviate some stress as parents prepare to send their children to school this fall.