Sentences with phrase «offered by the law school»

I took advantage of all of the intellectual property classes offered by the law school and fell in love with the idea of being an intellectual property lawyer.
Students could take the regular property course offered by law schools all over North America.
If the «regular property law course offered by law schools all over North America» is similar to the one I took in first year (in Ontario), then that course in no way prepares students to opine on modern residential tenancy law.
He was also inducted into the Honour Society of the University of Ottawa's Common Law School, which is the most prestigious alumni distinction offered by the Law School.
Please include in your application the description of the fellowship offered by your law school (including compensation, duration, etc.).

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By the time of her offer, Pao had already graduated from Princeton, as well as Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School.
The churches can offer the health plans they want, but when they have a business outside the church, such as a school, or hospital, they must go by the laws of the land and not be granted any special treatment because they are owned by a church.
Much of what's being taken to the landfill is the plain milk that schools are encouraged by federal law to offer, but that students aren't enthusiastically drinking.
Bruske questioned whether the volume discounts and rebates (called «kickbacks» by some) offered by these manufacturers to food service management companies (FSMCs) like Aramark, Sodexo and Chartwells are being passed on — as required by federal law — to the school districts.
A 2006 law sponsored by Silver allowed private schools to receive the tax abatements offered to commercial properties in Lower Manhattan.
Lebanon's new electoral law also allowed generous campaign financing which enabled parties to win votes by offering significant material incentives varying from direct cash (between $ 40 and $ 1000), school tuition fees, gas coupons and healthcare coverage.
As a scientist who has never had extensive ethics training, the other of us (Wendy Law), an SEP postdoctoral fellow, attended ethics courses at the University of Washington and Georgetown University, as well as teacher professional development workshops on using ethics in the classroom offered by the Washington Association for Biomedical Research and by UW's High School Human Genome Project.
A new report by authors from UCLA School of Law's Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment and UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability explores the sources and impacts of plastic marine litter and offers domestic and international policy recommendations to tackle these growing problems — a targeted, multifaceted approach aimed at protecting ocean wildlife, coastal waters, coastal economies and human health.
According to a 2009 report by Goulden; Mary Ann Mason, co-director of UC Berkeley School of Law's Center on Health, Economic & Family Security; and Karie Frasch, also of UC Berkeley, in 2008, 58 % of major U.S. research institutions offered at least 6 weeks of paid leave to faculty mothers after the birth or adoption of a child.
Choices for parents who think their kids might benefit from a special program at a school in a nearby school district: In California, some school districts where enrollment was dropping are taking advantage of the state's District of Choice law, which allows districts to compete for students by offering innovative programs and options that parents want.
Home schoolers have challenged and are increasingly overturning laws barring them from participation in high school sports and other extracurricular activities offered by public schools.
They provide one of the more succinct definitions of civil disobedience offered to high schoolers: «The right of all Americans to express their dissent against laws in these and many other ways is protected by the Constitution.
The survey, conducted by law firm Winckworth Sherwood, found that 52 per cent of schools had not taken the opportunity to offer larger pay rises to the best performing teachers, instead continuing to offer a pay rise of just one per cent.
As the result of a new state law that offers school personnel early - retirement benefits, the Philadelphia public schools could be filling as many as 1,200 teaching positions by September, according to Peter Bent, the district's director of recruitment.
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.
In Arkansas, the main education policy initiative championed by the governor is a law that requires all public schools to offer computer science classes.
There are fourteen nutrients that school food has to by law incorporate into the weekly menu offered to the children and young people.
In the language of the federal law: «Where inability to speak and understand the English language excludes national origin minority group children from effective participation in the educational program offered by a school district, the district must take affirmative steps to rectify the language deficiency in order to open its instructional program to these students.»
Unlike other industries that often offer higher pay to compensate for less desirable working conditions or to attract more desired applicants in high - need areas (like STEM fields), public school systems are generally limited by collective bargaining agreements or state law in their ability to offer differential compensation (see Goldhaber et al., 2015).
It argues that SEAs generally think about these activities through a lens provided by federal law; it discusses how today's reform - minded state chiefs prioritize this line of work; it highlights how SEAs need to alter how they interact with LEAs if these schools are to improve; it details how some departments have reorganized themselves to do this work; it discusses the challenges associated with launching new school - improvement efforts in an era of austerity; and it offers a three - category framework for comparing SEAs.
Charter schools are not required by the state to offer students lunch, unlike traditional public schools which must do so according to the law.
Schools that receive federal aid for disadvantaged students and that consistently fall short of the goals set under No Child Left Behind are subject to increasingly severe penalties, beginning with the bailout provision offered parents after two straight years of shortfalls in either one of the two subjects currently covered by the law: math and reading.
In addition, no person shall be discriminated against in admission to Brooke Charter School or in obtaining the advantages, privileges and access to the courses of study and extracurricular activities offered by the School on the basis of race, sex, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, socioeconomic status, housing status or homelessness, special need, proficiency in the English language or a foreign language, or prior academic achievement, as required by federal and state law, including M.G.L. c. 71, § 89 (l); 603 CMR 1.06 (1); M.G.L. c. 76, § 5 and 603 CMR 26.00: Access to Equal Educational Opportunity.
This Jan. 20 letter to the US Department of Education, and accompanying presentation given to US DoED officials by Wallace President Will Miller, Director of Education Jody Spiro, and Prince George's County Director of Leadership Development Douglas Anthony, offer The Wallace Foundation's views on including school leadership in implementation of the new federal education law.
Participating schools must provide the results of an annual assessment to parents along with the educational services and associated costs being offered to a child, be approved by the state and comply with health, safety and nondiscrimination laws.
In the last three years, as the director of Parent Revolution, Austin helped the state pass the nation's first parent trigger law, which offers parents options to improve consistently failing schools by shutting them down altogether, replacing the principal or staff, or conversion to a charter school.
Stronger charter school laws can help meet rural students» needs by allowing communities to innovate in ways that traditional districts can not because of regulatory constraints on hiring, spending, allocation of time, and class offerings.
A review of recommendations offered by school security organizations and law enforcement agencies offers some basic answers to questions school leaders may have, although a school's emergency management protocols should be developed after extensive research and collaboration with local law enforcement.
This multi-method approach aims to contextualize the quantitative analysis by offering insight into how school administrators frame legislated changes to the tenure eligibility process and thus mediate teacher perception and behavior in reaction to the law change.
Criminal Law is one of the many online courses offered by Broward Community Schools.
By law, applicants to these charter schools are offered admission on the basis of a randomized lottery.
In addition to the expert opinion, legal arguments pertaining to mootness and ripeness, as well as a strong defense of CCJEF's legitimate standing in the case, the reply brief was offered by counsel for the plaintiffs, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP (New York), with assistance from the Yale Law School Education Adequacy Clinic, both of which serve pro bono in this action.
While the law aimed to close these gaps, they persist despite incremental progress.20 Even after making statistical adjustments to proficiency rates under NCLB, by 2005 — four years after the law passed — the rates of schools making «adequate yearly progress» started to decline.21 Any school missing a single target for any subgroup for two years in a row initiated particular actions, such as offering free tutoring or the option for students to transfer to a higher - performing school.
New York state law complicates the ability of charters to create diverse student populations by mandating that they offer preference to students residing in the community school district where the school is located.
Even as we work with states to offer flexibility from existing law, the Obama administration will support a bipartisan effort by Congress to create a law that supports a well - rounded education while holding schools, districts and states accountable for results.
The state secondary school selected by David Cameron and Michael Gove for their daughters appears to have breached school admission laws by asking parents for money when offering them a place, Schools Week can reveal.
Even more importantly, the new law requires that during his probationary period he must «successfully complete a school leadership program, approved by the State Board of Education, offered at a public or private institution of higher education in the state.»
For example, the offers failed to specify charter schools» share of non-classroom and specialized classroom spaces at the LAUSD campuses, as required by law.
By a former Marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class.
§ Must have applied to all available legal educational loan repayment programs offered by the applicant's law school for which the applicant qualifies.
Accumulations, curated by Martin Ball, School of Art Gallery, Kent State University, Ohio Some Options in Abstraction, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (booklet) Objective Color, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut Cal's Art: Sampling California Painting, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas Bastard (Son of Hot Sauce), The Law Office, Chicago, Illinois Public Offerings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California (cat.)
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First, DeGirolami explains that the JSD (aka «SJD» in some places) is only offered by a few law schools and is «ostensibly aimed at and designed for people who are interested in an academic legal career.»
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But by the time I finished law school, I had two kids and a good job offer doing litigation with a firm in Arizona, so I took the opportunity.
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