Sentences with phrase «numbers at law schools»

This is not an option the law society investigates because, as it says, it lacks control over the admission numbers at law schools.

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Over the next week, the board will encourage the apparently large number of shareholders that had not cast votes to support the deal, said mergers expert Brian Quinn, an associate professor at Boston College Law School.

The poll comes at a time when the number of deadly school shootings has reached 18 thus far into 2018, reawakening debate over gun control laws and school safety initiatives.

Over the years Richard Leblanc, an adjunct at Osgoode Hall Law School and associate professor of governance law and ethics in the School of Administrative Studies at York University, has been struck by the number of students who had difficulty staying awake during claLaw School and associate professor of governance law and ethics in the School of Administrative Studies at York University, has been struck by the number of students who had difficulty staying awake during clalaw and ethics in the School of Administrative Studies at York University, has been struck by the number of students who had difficulty staying awake during class.

Despite these challenges, Teachout maintains that she has more than the requisite number of signatures and that her residency in New York has been uninterrupted since she accepted a tenure - track position at Fordham University Law School in 2009.

SUNY Poly spokesman David Doyle said the school had no direct relationship with Howe, but that he is «one of a number of individuals at Whiteman Osterman & Hanna's law firm who are assigned to assist SUNY Poly in legal, business, and strategy matters.»

In June 2016, the Policing Project at the NYU School of Law co-sponsored a study with the NYPD to assess sentiments regarding police body cameras, part of an effort to influence department policy as body cameras become worn by an increasing number of patrol officers.

The number of people who would benefit from the program depends on how the Cuomo administration handles applications and how many people apply, said Jocelyn Simonson, an assistant professor at Brooklyn Law School.

«The law was passed because lead can cause serious health problems, especially for young children and pregnant women, and testing at a select number of schools last year uncovered potential problems,» said Christine Schuyler, director of health and human services for Chautauqua County.

«If guns (on campuses) are the appropriate answer, then we owe it to our children to provide appropriate numbers of professionally trained law enforcement personnel, such as school resource officers, school safety officers and local police whose work assignment is to protect students and staff at the school,» Nesvig said.

At 1:30 p.m., the Senate Standing Committee on New York City Education Subcommittee will meet to discuss various amendments to education law - including an act in relation to requiring certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless students.

At 10 a.m., the Senate Standing Committee on Education will meet to discuss a number of amendments to education law - including an act in relation to establishing the Asian Lunar New Year school holiday and an act in relation to authorizing the option of assigning community service as an alternative to suspension of students or in conjunction with student suspension.

New York's controversial receivership law that allows for the takeover of failing public schools withstood a court challenge by the teachers union, with a state Supreme Court judge this week rejecting a number of arguments aimed at deeming the statute unconstitutional.

«There is a very small number of people that control a huge amount of water,» said Douglas Kenney, director of the Western Water Policy Program at the University of Colorado Law School in Boulder.

The actual number may be much higher because an estimated 300,000 Texan children are schooled at home, says Susan Wootton, an infectious disease pediatrician at the University of Texas in Houston; though the law requires these kids to be immunized too, parents don't need to submit proof of vaccination.

Stephen Foster, Employment Law Partner specialising in education at SAS Daniels, said: «We work closely with a number of schools and are only too aware of the pressures they face.

By 2004 — 05, the number had grown to 99; state law currently caps the total number of charter schools at 100.

At one point, it looked like Congress might limit the number of tests mandated under the NCLB law (that's annual tests in reading and math in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school, plus science tests in certain grades).

As the «adequate yearly progress» aspect of the law results in increasingly heightened performance expectations, this number will probably rise, too, even though many schools will «graduate» off the list due to improving (or at least fluctuating) test scores.

Jacqueline P. Danzberger, the director of governance programs at the Institute for Educational Leadership, says most state mandates are «very, very minimal,» requiring board members to spend a certain number of hours passively receiving information on such matters as school law, communications, and finance.

During the meeting Mr. Khatri talked about the job of UNESCO with the Ministry of Education in Cambodia, the special programs developed to combat literacy, the law number of students at schools, and also about the future Global Citizenship Education proposed by UNESCO.

(John Hinderaker) In the aftermath of the epic failure of law enforcement at Stoneman Douglas High School, a number of companies adopted preening, anti-gun stances.

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It is also notable because New York law requires each charter school to enroll and retain students with disabilities (as well as English Language Learners and students eligible for free or reduced price lunch) in numbers comparable to those of traditional district schools in order to earn renewal at the end of its charter term.

It also serves as the textbook for a number of school law courses offered at the graduate level in Connecticut universities.

Last year, DCPS officials said they didn't have time to allocate the $ 40 million they got in at - risk funds in direct proportion to the number of at - risk students at each school, as the law required.

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.

But 24 years after Michigan law changed to shift school funding away from property taxes to a system based on the number of students a district has, a coalition wants to take a look at school funding again, specifically how much it really costs to educate each child.

NCLB is a federal law that mandates a number of programs aimed at improving U.S. education in elementary, middle and high schools by increasing accountability standards.

At Brown's urging, the Legislature overhauled state school aid laws to provide more funds to districts with large numbers of poor and / or English - learner students, aimed at closing the academic achievement gap between them and more privileged classmateAt Brown's urging, the Legislature overhauled state school aid laws to provide more funds to districts with large numbers of poor and / or English - learner students, aimed at closing the academic achievement gap between them and more privileged classmateat closing the academic achievement gap between them and more privileged classmates.

«If guns (on campuses) are the appropriate answer, then we owe it to our children to provide appropriate numbers of professionally trained law enforcement personnel, such as school resource officers, school safety officers and local police whose work assignment is to protect students and staff at the school,» Nesvig said.

Automatic closure laws «identify a threshold of minimally - acceptable performance» for charter schools; schools falling below this threshold at the time of renewal, or that remain below this threshold for a set amount of time, are automatically closed.29 The National Association for Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) recommends that at a minimum closure laws define: 1) the number of years of poor performance that prompts school closures; 2) the level of performance that triggers closure; 3) what entity has discretion to make exceptions and the structure of any waiver process; and 4) if applicable, what types of schools can be exempt from closure policies or apply for waSchool Authorizers (NACSA) recommends that at a minimum closure laws define: 1) the number of years of poor performance that prompts school closures; 2) the level of performance that triggers closure; 3) what entity has discretion to make exceptions and the structure of any waiver process; and 4) if applicable, what types of schools can be exempt from closure policies or apply for waschool closures; 2) the level of performance that triggers closure; 3) what entity has discretion to make exceptions and the structure of any waiver process; and 4) if applicable, what types of schools can be exempt from closure policies or apply for waivers.

Amid the civil rights movement of the 1960s, a number of states developed policies or enacted laws on racial integration in the schools, including California, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, said Gary Orfield, a professor of education and law at the University of California, Los Angeles, who is a director of the university's Civil Rights Project.

Beginning in 1997, when North Carolina's first charter school opened, state law set a maximum number of charter schools allowed to operate at 100, which was the status quo for more than a decade.

He has also lectured on animal sheltering ethics to students at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine, the nation's number one ranked veterinary school, and has lectured at the U.C.L.A. School of Law on animal law ischool, and has lectured at the U.C.L.A. School of Law on animal law iSchool of Law on animal law issuLaw on animal law issulaw issues.

These are all valuable skills, but they are focused entirely on students competing for the same, limited number of jobs that are publicly posted at the law school (or, in the case of job networking, are soon - to - be-posted).

This topsy - turvy top - schools ranking comes courtesy of Paul L. Caron at TaxProf Blog, who has been having great fun in recent weeks crunching numbers drawn from the Princeton Review's 2008 ranking of the Best 170 Law Sschools ranking comes courtesy of Paul L. Caron at TaxProf Blog, who has been having great fun in recent weeks crunching numbers drawn from the Princeton Review's 2008 ranking of the Best 170 Law SchoolsSchools.

At law school, I participated in a number of extracurricular activities: law review, the cycling association, intramural sports and competitive mooting.

Andy is particularly interested in law - related civic education and for a number of years has taught constitutional law and history to school teachers at summer institutes jointly sponsored by the Maryland State Department of Education, Notre Dame of Maryland University, and the California - based Center for Civic Education.

By Nicole IsraelNicole Israel, a 3L at New York Law School, is student editor of Student Lawyer.The past decade saw the greatest number of young combat veterans in a generation.

A number of well - written articles chronicle at least some of the history of legal writing in the law school curriculum.1 However, those articles were written with a different purpose in mind: the authors sought to employ history to show the pedigree of legal writing and argue for an equal place in the curriculum with doctrinal courses and an equal position for its teachers with other «case - book» faculty.2 Because of this purpose, they understandably focused a large part of their historical narrative on legal writing in the «modern law - school,» an entity that has existed only since the late 1800s.3 The articles paid considerably less attention to the era that preceded it, beyond brief mentions of the Inns of Court in England, apprenticeship in America, and the private law schools and early attempts at law teaching that preceded Langdell's introduction of the case method.4

Clinical positions are available for more than 90 percent of Yale law students, nearly twice the number available at the two schools tied for second in the ranking, Drake University and the University of Wisconsin, where clinical positions are available for 45.7 percent of students.

The major law school rankings fail to accurately reflect the number of employed students at graduation.

It seeks to provide an explanation for the «confounding fact» that women and men have been graduating from law school and entering firms in virtually equal numbers for at least 15 years, but women make up only 17 percent of firm partners.

A number of participants noted the need to ensure that education on cultural competency, unconscious bias, anti-racism and anti-oppression start at law school and in the Licensing Process.

During Law school, Nesko clerked at the Illinois Attorney General's Office, at their Criminal Enforcement, Special Prosecutions division; as in - house counsel's intern at Presence Health, and a number of Chicago based law firLaw school, Nesko clerked at the Illinois Attorney General's Office, at their Criminal Enforcement, Special Prosecutions division; as in - house counsel's intern at Presence Health, and a number of Chicago based law firlaw firms.

The list reaches back through a very familiar history from at least the time of the Legal Realists through subsequent schools of thought centered on legal process, law - and - society, law - and - economics, and critical legal scholarship from a number of vantages including foci on feminism and race.

And Susan Robinson, assistant dean for career services at Stanford Law School, says that while more students consider alternatives to larger firms, she has not seen a noticeable decline in the number of 2Ls taking big - firm internships.

What is it that is causing us to see a large number of women leave the law when we're graduating almost 50 % out of law school and we're starting at law firms, almost 50 % so we're almost 50/50 going in, so why is it 10 years down the road we're down to 18, 20 % of women in the law.

The «non-lawyer» expression is a critical part of the law school myth (bought by a disturbing number of law students and professors) that what they learn at law school (legal knowledge, reasoning, analysis, etc) is special and oh - so - different from and superior to other types of expertise.