Sentences with phrase «of incoming law students»

96 % of incoming law students own «Smart Phones» that can browse the internet (up from 89 % last year and 50 % three

: The Results of a Survey Studying the Information Literacy of Incoming Law Students, 44 CAL.

Ian Gallacher, «Getting To Know You:» Results From A Pilot Survey Of Incoming Law Students (SSRN Working Paper Series 2005), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=832206.

Despite employing a relatively small percentage of practicing lawyers, «BigLaw» looms large in the popular imagination — and in the minds of incoming law students who aspire to walk its prestigious (and highly - paid) halls.

Once again Rich McCue has published the results of his annual survey of incoming law students at the University of Victoria.

Because students are randomly assigned to sections, the class population is an adequate random sample of the incoming law students at the law school.

Not exact matches

IDR student loan forgiveness isn't free: Under current tax laws, any remaining student loan balance forgiven as part of income - driven repayment is considered taxable income.

A few of the many things that jump off of the pages for me are that it doesn't seem to support working families with kids (it REPEALS the up to $ 5,000 exclusion from gross income for dependent care assistance that many working parents use to subsidize the skyrocketing costs of child care while they work) or even those who (like my fantastic law students at UNLV) are pursuing and paying for higher education.

Cuomo tucked a provision in his $ 168 billion budget plan that would amend state education law to make the undocumented students eligible for the Excelsior Scholarship program, which covers tuition costs for students from families with incomes of up to $ 125,000.

The majority of minorities entering science and engineering are from the middle - and upper - income families, but considerable debt and modest earnings (compared to business, law, and medicine) may deter even some high - achieving minority students from choosing these fields.1 Up to 25 % of academically qualified low - income students either do not apply to college2 or drop out, unable to keep pace with escalating prices.3

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.

As urban legend has it, a Harvard Law School dean walked into an orientation for incoming students and told them to, «Look to your left and then look to your right, because one of you won't be here by the end of the year.»

Similarly, in Vergara, there may be measures that school districts could take to reduce the burdens of ineffective teachers on low - income students, but such measures are costly, increase with the number of low - income students and, as in Serrano, those costs are just another form of burden placed by state law on low - income schools and districts.

In other words, when California law forces schools to retain ineffective teachers, low - income students pay one way or another, either in the quality of the teachers in their classrooms or in the redirection of resources they would have for other expenditures (or both).

The suit, filed on behalf of Beatriz Vergara, a Los Angeles high school student, and eight other public school students, claims that the law protects poor - performing teachers assigned to working with low - income, minority children.

While giving students experience working for such employers as law firms and advertising agencies, the arrangement also puts a private school education within the reach of many families in the predominantly Hispanic, low - income Pilsen neighborhood...

The lawsuit, filed by the nonprofit Public Interest Law Office of Rochester in September 1998, claims that the state has deprived the plaintiffs — all low - income black and Hispanic students — of their rights under the state constitution to a sound basic education by failing to alleviate concentrations of poverty in the 37,000 - student Rochester school district.

With respect to the research on test - based accountability, Principal Investigator Jimmy Kim adds: «While we embrace the overall objective of the federal law — to narrow the achievement gap among different subgroups of students — NCLB's test - based accountability policies fail to reward schools for making progress and unfairly punish schools serving large numbers of low - income and minority students.

Gabrielle (Gabby) Pingue Education Policy and Management Hometown: Cambridge Then: Teacher and law school student Now: Education law attorney representing low - income students of color (future plan)

Ironically, the charter school law operates as a de facto universal choice (open to all students in the District regardless of income) and reliably delivers funding of more than $ 14,000 per student.

Enforcing civil rights laws and ensuring that dollars intended for low - income students and students with disabilities are spent accordingly have been parts of the Education Department's mandate since its creation in 1979.

Despite the Court of Appeal's flawed ruling, the laws challenged by Vergara harm our kids — especially low - income students and children of color — while pushing passionate, hard - working teachers out of the classroom.

We further believe that while education systems should be attuned to the needs of all students, including high - performing students and students raised in middle - and upper - income homes, policy makers must be particularly sensitive to the needs of student groups whose choices have historically been limited by law or by circumstance, including students of color, students raised in low - income homes, students with English language needs, and students with disabilities.

The federal appeals court in St. Louis — directly contradicting a two - year - old decision by its counterpart in Boston — has upheld a Minnesota law allowing parents of private - school students to take state income - tax deductions for tuition and other expenses.

The law, signed by Republican Gov. Bill Owens last month, will provide state - financed vouchers of up to $ 5,000 to low - income students in low - performing urban districts to pay for tuition at religious or other private schools.

Mitt Romney has pledged that if elected president he will enact a voucher program that would allow parents of low - income and special needs students «to choose from any district or public charter school, or a private school where permitted by state law.»

By law, the charter school will be open to students from anywhere in the city's five boroughs, which means a lottery to choose the incoming classes from a broader pool of applicants.

Schools that serve low - income students are categorized as Title I schools because of the federal laws that apply to them.

The impact is greater in schools that serve low - income youth, particularly students of color, whose education these laws and policies were supposedly designed to improve.

In the months ahead, we plan to work side by side with our partners in Mississippi to defend the state's strong charter public school law and ensure that the state's low - income students have access to a growing number of high - quality public school options.»

Under the law, students in all schools are tested, but the only schools and districts subject to penalties are those that receive federal Title I funding, awarded to schools with large numbers of low - income students.

The law grants tax credits to corporations in return for contributions to non-profit scholarship organizations that fund low - and - middle - income students attending the schools of their choice.

Under a law passed in 2010, districts with free or reduced - price lunches can offer the meals to every student at the school, regardless of household income.

According to the account, the Republicans believe «the [Dept. of Education] is trying to reassert federal control by exceeding its authority with a rule that would require state and local spending in low - income schools receiving Title I funds to be equal or greater than non-Title I schools... and force schools to include teacher salaries when measuring spending between Title I and non-Title I schools...» At the same time, the story notes that «King is facing pressure from civil rights groups who want to ensure the new education law does not deprive low - income students of equal funding.»

Randi Weingarten, president, American Federation of Teachers: «The time is now to fix the federal education law to end the testing fixation and maintain a federal commitment to opportunity for all, particularly high - needs, low - income students.

Now, with responsibility for accountability largely in the hands of states under the updated federal education law, the question looms: Will California reinstate real accountability to protect its 6.2 million students who are overwhelmingly low - income and Spanish - speaking, or will it remain in the shadows?

By law, failure to make adequate progress in test scores for even one historically low - performing group — a single racial - ethnic category, low - income students, those in special education, or those with limited English proficiency — triggers a series of increasingly aggressive corrective actions.

To overcome the achievement gap that still exists between poor and minority children and their more affluent peers, we must stay true to the law's core tenet — that all students, regardless of income, race, ethnicity or disability should have access to a quality education that prepares them for success in college and a career,» he said.

Under the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), signed into law in December 2015, Title I remains the foundation of the federal commitment to closing the achievement gap between low - income students and their peers.

For most districts, funding has been restored to pre-recession levels, and the Legislature adopted the Local Control Funding Formula, based on a paper that Liu co-wrote as a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, which provides extra money for low - income students and English learnelaw professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, which provides extra money for low - income students and English learneLaw, which provides extra money for low - income students and English learners.

Yet these laws are not the only barrier to the success of students of color and low - income students.

For example, a 2010 New York state charter school law requiring charter schools to mimic the demographics of the surrounding neighborhood — implemented to address gaps in English language learner and special education enrollment at charter schools — might mean, if enforced, that a school in upper Manhattan's District 6 would need to enroll a student population in which 98 percent are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, a commonly used measure of low - income status.64

Florida law allows that three percent of Step Up For Students income can be used for «administrative purposes.»

House Bill 969 is part of Jindal's education agenda, though it has not been featured as prominently as a new law — signed last week — that will use the state's public - school financing formula to pay for private school tuition for low - income students in certain public schools.

If Trump steps back from enforcement of civil rights laws in K - 12 schools, students from low - income families, LGBTQ students, female students, and students of color will surely feel the effects.

«While we are pleased to see that H.R. 5 maintains statewide annual assessments, other provisions of the bill will significantly weaken the law's focus on the very groups of children who are at its heart — low - income children, racial minorities, English learners and students with disabilities.

The District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program, created by Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2004, is a federally - funded school voucher program for low - income students living in our nation's capital.

He also coordinated the effort of a Los Angeles coalition of civil rights, education and community advocacy groups — known as Communities for Los Angeles Student Success, or CLASS — to use the state's new K - 12 local funding law to improve achievement for minority and low - income students.

The White House released a report that shows that school districts with large numbers of low - income students, including Los Angeles, Fresno and San Diego, stand to lose millions of dollars in federal funding under the House version of amendments to the nation's education law.

Three states — in addition to the law's assessment requirements — use another cut of test score data such as improvement among subgroups of students, including those from low - income families, students from major racial and ethnic groups, students with disabilities, and English language learners.