Sentences with phrase «legal challenges for schools»

The panel discussed how changes in technology have created new ways for students to bully each other, creating new legal challenges for schools and communities.

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For instance, a hypothetical public high school teacher who advanced New Age ideas and attitudes under a neutral or secular wrapping would be far less vulnerable to legal challenge than would be a teacher who spoke of God by name or who expounded on the biblical foundations of Western thought.

He said the school is retaining its health care plan for employees because it is hopeful that legal challenges to the health care law will prevent much of it from taking effect.

«the school is retaining its health care plan for employees because it is hopeful that legal challenges to the health care law will prevent much of it from taking effect.»

This week, the organisation Against Borders for Children (ABC) launched a crowdfunder to help fund another legal challenge - this time against schools collecting nationality and country of birth data from children.

«Professor makes legal case for schools to challenge cyberbullies.»

School choice activists have launched a fresh legal challenge to a Maine program that provides public funding for students to attend secular but not religious private schools.

The series of events led to high profile media coverage and Schools Minister Nick Gibb requested that the Council make an application to the Supreme Court for permission to launch a final legal challenge.

In January, the Florida Supreme Court dismissed a legal challenge to the state's Tax Credit Scholarship Program, thereby preserving financial aid opportunities for thousands of low - income students to attend private schools.

It was an intense weekend in Philadelphia rubbing elbows — and sharing bagels — with the likes of Ken Starr, Jeffrey Toobin, and Guido Calebresi, but I was surprised by the number of Constitutional questions arising these days in the public schools and was lucky enough to be in a workshop run by Vic Walczak, legal director for the ACLU in Pennsyslvania, a man who has had his share of education challenges lately.

Gay - Straight Alliances: Ground Zero for School Tolerance No other extracurricular activity has sparked the controversy and legal challenge the formation of Gay - Straight Alliance clubs has.

The city will start growing again, and the district at that point will have to start shoving the co-located charters off our school district property because we need the space for our public school population,» he said, also noting the legal challenges involved in trying that.

A spokesman said: «The news that Comprehensive Future is reconsidering their legal challenge is good news for parents of Kent who will benefit from the extension of the excellent Weald of Kent Grammar School.»

«Our school population has a majority of its students coming from challenged social and environmental backgrounds, so they need much more than what the average public school can provide for them given the legal mandates of what must be taught in these schools,» Johnson explains.

Some of the most closely watched races were for seats on the school board in Douglas County, where the winners will decide whether to continue to defend a school voucher program set up by the district that has faced legal challenges.

Florida's teachers union struck out Wednesday in its latest effort to dismantle a tax credit scholarship program as the state's Supreme Court rejected the union's appeal for legal standing to challenge the voucher - like program that finances students from low - performing schools who want to attend private schools.

Using case studies and surveys, the report outlines special education requirements for charter schools — including the challenge of pursuing unconventual approaches but still staying true to the legal foundations of federal special education law.

«Legal challenges to school - choice programs have become as inevitable and painful as death and taxes,» says Clint Bolick, vice president for litigation at the Phoenix - based Goldwater Institute.

The U.S. Supreme Court has given the nation's public schools the green light to keep «under God» in the Pledge of Allegiance — at least for now — by holding that a California father lacked the legal standing to challenge a California school district's policy of leading children in the pledge.

These legal challenges stalled reform and kept the school choice movement fighting for a clear identity.

There is concern about time and energy required for overseeing a charter school and the possibility a legal challenge will be filed to delay or derail the law.

Known as the Gilmer - Aiken Act, this basic funding plan served as the primary vehicle for the support of Texas public schools for a few years until legal challenges to inequalities in public school funding caused the state to review its funding system.

A spokesman for Park View School said they would challenge the Ofsted report through the appropriate legal channels.

It's unclear whether the Houston school district will now negotiate a settlement with the teachers union or end up back in court, but either way, the decision comes at a significant time for the test - based accountability movement, which has faced a number of legal and political challenges over the past several years.

The state's new plans for that district, created through House Bill 70 over the summer, has been controversial and the center of a legal challenge — a challenge that failed — over the state taking control of the district from voters and the elected school board.

• School Expansion, Growth & Strategic Planning • State and Federal Employment Law • School Board and Nonprofit Governance • Administrative Law & Appeals of State and Federal Agency Decisions and Actions • Special Investigations & Legal / Compliance Audits • Policy Guidance and Development • Constitutional Challenges and Claims • School Employee and School Board Training • Litigation in Federal and State Courts • Administrative Hearings and Appeals Before State and Federal Agencies • Public Entity Purchasing and Procurement; Business Transactions; & Contract Negotiation, Review and Drafting • Construction Law, AIA Construction Contracts, Review and Drafting • Real Estate Transactions and Condemnation • Special Education under IDEA and Section 504 • Student Rights & Discipline Issues and Hearings • State and Federal Claims of Discrimination • State and Federal Civil Rights • Administrative Grievances and Hearings • False Claims Act / Qui Tam Defense for Local Government Entities

The Institute for Justice has a long history of successfully defending school choice from legal attacks and has represented parents and children in defense of every one of Arizona's private school choice programs that have been challenged in court.

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The plaintiffs in Duncan v. State of Nevada (see Legal Clips for background on suit) asserted a constitutional challenge to SB 302, alleging that it diverts public funds to private schools, many of which are religious, in violation of Article 11, Section 10 (which prohibits public funds from being used for sectarian purpose).

«While attempting to rebrand its legal challenge as merely an attempt to seek information about implementation of the scholarship program, the administration's real motive still stands — forcing parents to go to federal court to seek approval for where they want to send their children to school.»

Charter schools can write and enforce discipline policies that make it possible to remove students who are needy or challenging, said Suzanne Greenfield of Advocates for Justice and Education, an organization that offers free legal assistance to students facing expulsion.

AQA, the exam board with the highest market share for English, would not comment specifically on any potential legal challenge to the latest set of results, but did say it has a process in place whereby schools that are unhappy can contact it to discuss their concerns.

Victoria speaks to the challenges facing Cooper and even got a chance to plug the Committee to Save Cooper Union's lawsuit and legal fund to preserve free education for all students at the school.

Adding to Lawyer Monthly's repertoire of law school & careers features, for paralegals, newly graduates, and those simply hoping to jump into an exciting world of law, here Andrea Hall, Founder and Principle of US based The Hall Law Office, LLC, discusses her own challenges in the legal world, and talks us through some of the most difficult moments of her career.

Lawyers who participate in these activities, law firms that participate, who become part of the thought leadership and who are seen by their clients as investing in thought leadership and partnering with law schools like ours to help to better train and educate the next generation of lawyers who are thought to be thinking seriously about the challenges facing not just lawyers of the legal profession but our clients, I think those kinds of lawyers will be rewarded because clients at all levels know that it's an increasingly complex and sophisticated and challenging world and they're looking for lawyers who understand that and can help them with their problems.

Ellen is particularly known for her expertise on the challenges faced by women in the profession and has been invited to address numerous audiences — including the Department of Justice Canada, the Center for Legal Inclusiveness, Harvard Law School's Women's Leadership Summit, the Center for Women in the Law, the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law's Women Leadership & Equality Program and bar and women attorney's groups on the national and local level throughout the US and Europe — on strategies for advancing women attorneys.

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This is why I'm thrilled to take on this new challenge as Director of Special Projects at Above the Law, where one of my primary objectives will be to make Evolve the Law the go - to source for lawyers, legal technologists, law schools, and everyone who is invested in the future of the profession.

This can be a challenge for many attorneys because law school and / or law firm work does not prepare you for the legal support function within a business.

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That may be in part because Dobbins was busy: working on a lawsuit challenging the DoD's former policy of barring women in combat, writing for the Charlottesville newspaper The Daily Progress, co-chairing the Feminist Legal Forum, serving in various roles in the JAG School, and working in the Special Collections division of the UVA Law Library.

Striking the appropriate balance across a law school's obligations to key stakeholders — students, the legal profession, society [and by extension future clients], and the university and pursuit of knowledge — is not a challenge for the faint of heart.

Below is the video from a panel presentation entitled Implementing Innovation: The Challenges to Changing Big Law that was held at Stanford Law School by the Center for the Legal Profession on May 19th, 2015.

Ido Kilovaty Contributor Share on Twitter Ido Kilovaty is a Cyber Fellow at the Center for Global Legal Challenges and Resident Fellow at the Information Society Project, Yale Law School.

Ido Kilovaty is a Cyber Fellow at the Center for Global Legal Challenges and Resident Fellow at the Information Society Project, Yale Law School.

Ido Kilovaty is a Research Scholar in Law, a Cyber Fellow at the Center for Global Legal Challenges, and a Resident Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.

To find a job that challenges me and is in the field for which I have been in school for the last year as a paralegal / legal secretary.

Prior to joining the staff of Open Circle, Dunning served as the Director of Training and Associate Director of the Greater Boston Legal Services, was a middle school counselor, trained middle school teachers, and used outdoor challenges as part of the treatment for drug - involved adolescents.