Sentences with phrase «less law students»

Of course, there's always the down the middle angle: it just means there are less law students, but they will still have the same wide range of views as every other law school class.

Not exact matches

«Students get to not only have the advantage of having some of the best law professors in the world instruct them, but they also get to benefit from that sort of tremendous exposure in a more collegial and less cut - throat environment,» Jack Zaremski, president of New York attorney placement firm Hanover Legal Personnel Services, told Business Insider.

There is a line between a «state sponsored» activity, and a student activity, (from previous court decisions), (am a law student), and if it really is up to an individual student, it's less heinous than it could have been.

School board officials said The Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 requires them to change pricing because the law states that schools must charge on average no less for paid student meals than the district receives in federal free meal reimbursement.

The draft bill would also amend the state's education law, requiring that any school in which more than 25 percent of students live on campus must set aside a minimum of 50 beds — or 10 percent of total beds, whichever is less — for substance abuse free living.

Margaret Thatcher was one of Hodgkin's less successful chemistry students at Somerville: She took a second - class degree and later changed to law.

Less than a month before Congress votes on whether to reauthorize a controversial program mandating healthier school lunches, a new study confirms the suspicions of school officials — many students are putting the fruits and vegetables they're now required to take straight into the trash, consuming fewer than they did before the law took effect.

These studies show, consistently, that parental schools of choice not controlled by public school districts 1) are usually prohibited by law from screening out students based on admission exams, 2) use ability tracking less frequently than traditional public schools even when, legally, they can, and 3) may use ability tracking, but when they do, it is less likely to have a negative effect on the achievement of low - track students.

Despite the program's emphasis on character development, the KIPP students were no less likely to smoke, drink, get high, or break the law.

I've had other students, maybe not profiled in the book, who have expected me to require less of them, which I won't do, because I'm not required by law to modify curriculum.

Lovenheim and Willén found that students who spent all 12 years of elementary and secondary school in a state with a duty - to - bargain law earn an average of $ 795 less per year as adults than students who were not exposed to collective bargaining laws during the same time period.

The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 prohibited students with felony records from receiving Pell Grants, ending 350 prison education programs overnight, despite the fact that prison education accounted for less than 1 percent of the Pell Grant budget.

Most of the schools are not even close to it, resulting in students across the city receiving far less physical education than required by law.

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.

And according to the federal No Child Left Behind law, states technically risk losing some federal funding if less than 95 percent of students take the high - stakes exams.

While there are more than 800 citations in state laws recognizing the nation's accrediting agencies as gatekeepers for scholarships and college admissions, there is no definitive catalogue of what individual states require, much less what is required by colleges and universities after students graduate and want to enroll.

Less than 5 percent of students in those grades opted out of the exams, meeting the 95 percent participation requirement — at least for those grades — under the federal No Child Left Behind law.

Teachers in states with these laws were less likely to display visual support for LGBTQ students, such as «Safe Space» posters, and less likely to serve as GSA advisors.

Indeed, less than a year before the Coleman Report's release, President Lyndon Johnson had signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act into law, dedicating federal funds to disadvantaged students through a Title 1 program that still remains the single largest investment in K — 12 education, currently reaching approximately 21 million students at an annual cost of about $ 14.4 billion.

It is no coincidence then that research has shown students who spend their full K — 12 education career in public schools in states that require collective bargaining with teachers unions earn less money, work fewer hours, are more likely to be unemployed, and are more likely to be employed in lower - skilled jobs than are their peers in states without collective bargaining laws.

With the settlement, the Reed case ended up taking a different tack, switching from an effort to overturn the layoffs - by - seniority law to a negotiated agreement to protect vulnerable students from the existing law's potential impact — although for less than 5 percent of the nearly 1,000 schools in the district.

Charter schools, vouchers, homeschooling and tax credit scholarships are all less regulated than the neighborhood district schools students are required to attend by law.

When I retired from leading a portfolio of schools with 10,522 students K - 12 in December, I felt my job dealt mostly with compliance with law and less about effectiveness in the classroom.

While they find no clear effects of collective bargaining laws on how much schooling students ultimately complete, their results do show that laws requiring school districts to engage in the process with teachers unions lead students to be less successful in later life.

In 2015, researchers Michael Lovenheim and Alexander Willen found that laws requiring school districts to engage in the collective bargaining process with teachers unions lead students to be less successful in later life.

The California Supreme Court will decide this summer whether to take up an appeal by nine students in the historic Vergara vs. California case challenging our unusually protective teacher tenure laws, as well as a seniority - based layoff system that often keeps ineffective teachers in district classrooms while letting more talented but less senior teachers go.

I learned first - hand the impact of the state's new English Language Development laws where some classrooms have less than 20 students and others have well over thirty.

Those students graduate from high school at higher rates, are less likely to get pregnant as teens or run into issues with the law, and are more likely to attend integrated colleges and work in integrated workplaces, he said.

These students» departures, because of the skewed demographics that exist as a result of decades of de facto and de jure segregation laws, left the public schools less racially stratified as a result.

He found that «laws requiring school districts to engage in collective bargaining with teachers unions lead students to be less successful in the labor market in adulthood.

Students who spent all 12 years of grade school in a state with a duty - to - bargain law earned an average of $ 795 less per year and worked half an hour less per week as adults than students who were not exposed to collective - bargaining lawsStudents who spent all 12 years of grade school in a state with a duty - to - bargain law earned an average of $ 795 less per year and worked half an hour less per week as adults than students who were not exposed to collective - bargaining lawsstudents who were not exposed to collective - bargaining laws.»

Parent trigger» laws, vouchers, charter takeovers or other forms of school privatization that take resources from the schools attended by most students and put them into private hands, with less oversight.

Under the original law, students enrolled in public schools whose families earned 185 percent of the poverty level or less were eligible for scholarships of up to $ 7,500.

While the federal No Child Left Behind law «shined a spotlight» on the needs of the most disadvantaged students, says Petrilli, «let's not overlook their slightly less disadvantaged peers — the boys and girls who come from low - income but perhaps not as dysfunctional homes and who aspire to graduate from college and enter the middle class.»

The student aid company promises that this law firm can settle your student loan debt for thousands less than you owe.

However, under Canadian law, certain debts remain even in Bankruptcy: student loans less than seven years old, spousal or child support, alimony, debt arising from fraud, restitution orders and any court imposed fines.

The best place to start looking might be your own law school, since several colleges forgive some or all of the student loans for students who make less than $ 60,000 a year.

Under current law, only students with an expected family contribution (EFC)-- the amount that the federal government expects a family to pay toward the student's postsecondary education expenses — of less than about $ 5,200 are eligible for a Pell grant, whereas recipients of subsidized loans may have a larger EFC, as long as it is less than their estimated tuition, room, board, and other costs of attendance not covered by other aid received.

Because law degrees take less time to complete than medical or dental school degrees, more private student loan lenders offer students options for financing their law school education.

She had this observation for an audience of Georgetown law students and constituents attending the gathering: «I hate to be less than lady like and say this but, here it goes.

If law students have less debt — or gasp — no debt, after training, they are better able deliver affordable legal services.

If you are a recent law school grad, you may have taken advantage of some student loan repayment plans that are slightly less awful than normal student loan repayment plans.

Those lawyers will be replaced by: (1) self - help programs, including unbundling of legal services; (2) greater use of much less competent people such as law students, paralegals, and untrained volunteers; and, (3) pro & low bono, which, as all charity, is uncertain as to its volume, availability, and timing.

These campaigns ran the gamut from mass - market advertising to multimedia publications to targeted client awareness efforts to law student recruitment blitzes, and they all appear effective to a greater or lesser extent.

For example, the Federation of Law Societies of Canada's publication, «Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada,» (Sept. 2012) recommends lowering legal costs so as to preserve the existing system by means of using much less competent alternatives to using experienced lawyers — students, paralegals, unbundling of legal services, and the unpredictable capacity, availability, and timing of services provided pro bono.

Students who start law school fit and healthy are less likely to get sick.

Officials at the University of Wyoming College of Law had asked students to be on the lookout for one of its graduates, Matthew Riehl, less than two months before he opened fire on several deputies in suburban Denver.

Helping to support students from less privileged backgrounds to access work experience in law.

46 Maryland's program is an example of an integrated curriculum that marries lawyering skills, legal analysis, and, to a lesser but growing degree, professionalism47 from day one of the students» law school career.

We have been delighted to once again join CMS to help run a workshop for students spending a week at the firm as part of PRIME, an alliance of law firms and legal departments, which gives school - age students from less privileged backgrounds access to quality work experience in the legal sector.