Sentences with phrase «law school seat»

As the time for law school seat deposits rapidly approaches, many potential law students are wondering the same thing: How much does it matter which law school you attend?

Lea Staples from the OUTlaw society at Dalhousie Schulich School of Law spoke passionately about how the TWU law school would, «create more law school seats for heterosexuals than LGBT students.»

Despite recent years of decades - low law school application levels, law school seats are still heavily over-subscribed.

Not exact matches

After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1974, he was elected to a New York Assembly seat from Brooklyn at age 23.

Schumer embarked on his political career by winning a New York state Assembly seat in 1974, the same year he graduated from Harvard law school.

«They want to focus on Washington instead of the fact that she supported the use of taxpayer money to cover up sexual harassment and abuse in the State Assembly, she approved of seating Hiram Monserrate in the State Senate even though he slashed his girlfriend in the face and caused a wound so deep it required 20 stitches to close and she wrote the law that sent $ 373 million in Westchester's state school aid to New York City.»

High - profile members of that profession ejected from their Commons seats on May 7 included business secretary Vince Cable, pensions minister Steve Webb, schools minister David Laws and — in a small - hour moment that signalled the turning tide — shadow chancellor Ed Balls.

«Kristy Mazurek embodies everything that is wrong with politics, and the contrast could not be greater between her and Monica Wallace, a principled leader who brings a unique perspective to the seat and has spent her entire career fighting for justice and teaching ethics at UB Law School,» Zellner said.

Senate Republicans will return to Albany later this month in the catbird seat as a range of issues important to Democratic lawmakers are due to expire in June, including mayoral control of New York City schools and laws governing rent control.

«I want to assure you that, though I am discontinuing my campaign, I will continue my fight for affordable housing, tougher gun laws and more classroom seats to alleviate overcrowding in our schools.

But Ohio Republicans aren't confident they'll maintain control over Ohio's congressional seats, said Justin Levitt, who researches redistricting at the Loyola Law School.

The chief operation officer of numerous bar associations, community organizations, and law schools designated the following members to the panel, which will report the three (3) «most highly qualified» candidates from among the seven applicants (all lower court judges) for the one (1) «open» seat.

«I guess Mr. Yassky doesn't think that Pace Law School deserves his full - time attention, or that anyone might care that all the time he spends making the case that he should be picked for the vacant seat by party bosses is time he could spend on improving things at the Law School,» according to an email from an ATL tipster.

A grammar school boy from Essex who went on to work in law, he spent his first five years in parliament representing Hornchurch, but had to apply for a series of other seats as it was being abolished, eventually winning Old Bexley and Sidcup.

The Committee on Finance and the Committee on Education will meet jointly at 10 a.m. to discuss oversight regarding school planning and siting, as well as a proposed law «requiring the department of education to report information on school applications, offers of admission, enrollment, and school seats available.»

Others relate more specifically to aspects of school life, including the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 and laws regarding child car seats and seatbelts on coaches.

BUSK hears from some schools that say they are complying with minimum seat belt laws, however, they appear to rely upon this over and above the duty of care they have to ensure that the belts they use will adequately protect children and not injure them.

Among the roadblocks to the wider use of dual enrollment are seat - time and mandatory - attendance laws, which states passed a century ago, often under pressure from labor unions, to keep young people in school and out of the competition for jobs.

Often, these schools are taking advantage of the innovations offered by blended learning technology platforms and combining them with the regulatory freedom offered under charter school laws, waivers of seat time requirements, and teacher reforms to develop entirely new models of education.

Plenty of people disagree with Gauthier — the National PTA and the American Academy of Pediatrics support school seat belt laws — and Alan Ross, president of the National Coalition for School Bus Safety, says getting kids in the habit of buckling up every day can save their lives latschool seat belt laws — and Alan Ross, president of the National Coalition for School Bus Safety, says getting kids in the habit of buckling up every day can save their lives latSchool Bus Safety, says getting kids in the habit of buckling up every day can save their lives later on.

New York state passed a law in the»80s mandating seat belts on new school buses (although those that predate the law can still be used).

Laws about who can sit on charter boards vary around the country, but D.C.'s law limits charter boards to 15 unpaid members, with two seats reserved for school parents; 51 percent of members must be D.C. residents.

A century ago, often under pressure from labor unions, states passed seat - time and mandatory - attendance laws that compelled youngsters to stay in school, and out of the competition for jobs.

Certainly, if a child study team agreed that the best place to meet the services listed in the student's individualized education plan was, say, KIPP or Princeton Charter School, then the student would, I suppose, enroll in the lottery (both schools» demand for seats outpaces availability) or, perhaps, the state could pass a law allowing special treatment.

Up north in underprivileged Newark, the Education Law Center is marshalling resources to launch an assault against the approval of a 7,500 - seat expansion of seven high - performing charter 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.

And with recent changes in state law, it becomes possible over the next several years to double the number of charter school seats in Boston from the current 5,200.

For that reason, the Broward Teachers Union earlier this year denounced five new state laws that expanded school choice options for parents, including the promise of more seats in charter and virtual schools.

By law, charter schools must accept all students and fill seats based on an open lottery.

In none of these U-T pieces did the author correctly inform readers that charter schools must use lotteries mandated by both federal and state law when the number of applicants for their school exceeds the seats available.

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.

In - Seat - Time Law: California currently has an «in - seat time law,» which requires students to be in school 240 minutes per day in order for the school to receive its full per - pupil fundSeat - Time Law: California currently has an «in - seat time law,» which requires students to be in school 240 minutes per day in order for the school to receive its full per - pupil fundiLaw: California currently has an «in - seat time law,» which requires students to be in school 240 minutes per day in order for the school to receive its full per - pupil fundseat time law,» which requires students to be in school 240 minutes per day in order for the school to receive its full per - pupil fundilaw,» which requires students to be in school 240 minutes per day in order for the school to receive its full per - pupil funding.

The law has an unintended consequence: it prevents many schools from offering dual enrollment programs and internship opportunities because they conflict with the in - seat - time requirement.

They also worked with State Rep. John Allen to create successful laws that gave public charter school leaders a voice and a seat on the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools and State Board of Education.

Even if states remain in the driver's seat, Abe Feuerstein, a professor of education at Bucknell University who opposes the expansion of vouchers, still sees room for DeVos to use her new position to push state lawmakers to adopt robust school - choice laws.

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.

Yeovil is the seat of schools minister David Laws.

He was an unapologetic antagonist to the education status quo, and that meant shepherding through laws that benefitted charter schools and forced cash - strapped public schools to look for pennies in the seat cushions.

Governor Deval Patrick and the Legislature attempted to narrow the gaps six years ago when changing state law to allow for the doubling of charter - school seats in the lowest - performing districts.

By law, charter schools can never have selective admissions; anyone can apply and, if more students want to attend than there are seats available, there is a lottery to determine who is admitted.

Front Seat to History Michelle Healy Social and political changes in the past 50 years have transformed school law.

According to research by Yale Law School professor Dan Kahan and his colleagues, people's deep - seated views about morality, and about the way society should be ordered, strongly predict whom they consider to be a legitimate scientific expert in the first place — and thus where they consider «scientific consensus» to lie on contested issues.

In discussing that dispute as part of her subsequent run for a seat on a local school board, she noted that, in her 17 years of practicing law, she «ha [d]n't shot anybody yet, not even come close.»

Future lawyers got a courtroom seat right in their own law school Wednesday as the 3rd District Court of Appeals heard arguments in two cases at Ohio Northern University.

And the ABA would like to help them make the magic happen... by allowing law schools to fill up to 10 % of those seats with students who haven't taken the LSAT.

«The number of seats available is not there for them [so] they end up studying abroad,» says Anver Saloojee, the dean of record for the university's proposed law school.

Alternatives that have been used successfully in other schools or otherwise proposed include a certain number of seats of lower tuition for those experiencing financial hardships, public - private partnerships for projects and initiatives in the areas of legal technology and artificial intelligence to provide salaries while in law school, and a tuition forgiveness program for those who enroll in post-graduate access to justice programs.

Just because a law school can succeed at filling seats with such a program, and might survive any downturns in law school enrollment itself as a result, that does not mean it ought to do it.

Ironically, because students from other schools could take the MPRE at BC, a law school official had encouraged students to get «the home field advantage» by signing up early for one of what were supposed to be 150 available seats.

Currently, many law schools are faces challenges in filling their seats, and many very bright students who otherwise would have gone to law school are not doing so.