Sentences with phrase «private and public school law»

To this core of legal services Sacks Tierney has added an array of niche practices in Indian law, banking law, commercial and public finance, healthcare law, water and natural resources, private and public school law, and intellectual property law.

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The colleges — which are being investigated under the Title IX law — range from large public schools, Ivy League universities, private colleges and even some religious institutions.

A new state law in California will hold private and charter schools to the same sports safety standards as public schools.

And he proposes expanding the state's human rights laws to include schoolchildren at public and private schooAnd he proposes expanding the state's human rights laws to include schoolchildren at public and private schooand private schools.

But Kolb says he knows talks are going on about the top two remaining issues, renewing New York City's rent laws and an education tax credit for donors who give up to a million dollars to fund scholarships for poor children in private schools and fund afterschool activities at public schools.

Cuomo's opponent in the Democratic primary, Fordham law school professor Zephyr Teachout, says the governor should resign immediately, and says Cuomo's public indiscretions are far worse than the private indiscretions that led one of his predecessors Eliot Spitzer to resign.

And Cuomo's opponent in the Democratic primary, Fordham law school professor Zephyr Teachout, says the governor should resign immediately, and says Cuomo's public indiscretions are far worse than the private indiscretions that led one of his predecessors Eliot Spitzer to resiAnd Cuomo's opponent in the Democratic primary, Fordham law school professor Zephyr Teachout, says the governor should resign immediately, and says Cuomo's public indiscretions are far worse than the private indiscretions that led one of his predecessors Eliot Spitzer to resiand says Cuomo's public indiscretions are far worse than the private indiscretions that led one of his predecessors Eliot Spitzer to resign.

De Blasio's power over city schools has already been somewhat diminished by the new pro-charter state law dictating how the city must accommodate charters in both public and private space.

«We started to lead the nation last year by implementing a strong, uniform policy across the SUNY system and this new law ensures that every school — public and private — lives up to that standard.

The governor has linked the extension of rent control laws to the creation of a tax credit meant to spur donations to public schools and scholarship programs benefiting private and parochial schools.

His professional experience includes being a lawyer in private practice, a partner of Grossman, Lavine and Rinaldo, a public defender for the Legal Aid Society, in the City of New York and an instructor of Cardoza Law School's Intensive Trial Advocacy Program.

There are numerous private nonprofit organizations and foundations across the state, many at SUNY schools, that contend they operate outside the state's open government laws, keeping their records out of reach from the public and journalists.

Intro 65 - A was vigorously opposed by out LGBT Councilmembers Daniel Dromm of Jackson Heights, a former public school teacher and head of the Education Committee, and Rosie Mendez of the Lower East Side, who said in a joint statement, «Yeshivas, private schools, and parochial schools — unlike public schools — are not subject to Council oversight or much of the NYC Human Rights Law.

Under a 2014 law opposed by Mr. de Blasio and championed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York City is legally required to provide new charter schools free rent in public school buildings or pay for their rent in a private building.

He made his way through hard work to become a student at Harvard University, Harvard Law School, and really gave up the opportunity to have a lucrative private sector career and became a public servant.

When state Supreme Court Justice Joseph Teresi of the Third Judicial District retired from his second 14 - year term half way through on June 26, the Albany Democrat and former public defender set up a race that's pitting his fellow Albany Law School alumni, Democratic Albany County legislator and private attorney Justin Corcoran, against Greene County - based Republican Lisa M. Fisher, an attorney with the Ulster County Public Defender's opublic defender set up a race that's pitting his fellow Albany Law School alumni, Democratic Albany County legislator and private attorney Justin Corcoran, against Greene County - based Republican Lisa M. Fisher, an attorney with the Ulster County Public Defender's oPublic Defender's office.

Trustees of Agudath Israel of America, an Orthodox Jewish organization, told Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz, a Sheepshead Bay Democrat, during an Albany meeting in April that he would be the target of a 2016 primary if the education investment tax credit, a bill that would give a tax break to people and companies donating money to public schools and private school scholarship funds, does not become law this session.

The seeming implication by Breslin's camp is that Martland, an Albany High School graduate who left the Capital Region for Princeton University and Brooklyn Law School and spent more than two decades as a prosecutor and lawyer in the public and private sector downstate, is an outsider.

Gov. Cuomo and the state Legislature subsequently approved a law requiring the city to provide charters space in public school facilities or pay for their rent at private space.

UFT lawyers argue that «while charter schools may receive some funding from private entities, they are overwhelmingly funded by public tax dollars and they are subject to the disclosure requirements applicable to government agencies under the New York state Freedom of Information Law.»

A Wisconsin law requiring public reporting of test scores from voucher schools went into effect during the last year of the study, 2010, giving researchers a rare look at private - school test scores both before and after the accountability mandate.

Although insulated from laws governing public schools, private schools felt the pressure as well, and many single - gender institutions, often fighting for economic survival, opened their doors to both sexes after 1970.

While the school district contended that the language of IDEA demanded attendance at a public school first, the Second Circuit had already ruled in a prior case that this was an incorrect reading of the law, and could unreasonably require parents either to place children in an inadequate program or shoulder the financial burden of a private education, a result it called «absurd.»

The scarcity of information reflects the fact that private schools, unlike public schools, do not receive additional funding for students with disabilities, and consequently are not required by federal law to follow complex procedures for the identification of those students.

Disabled students are entitled under federal law to demand an adequate education and to obtain one in a private school if the public schools are unable to provide it.

For example, she says that there are so few private placements of special education students «not... because the law's processes for securing private placements are inadequate, but because the vast majority of children with disabilities can, and do, receive FAPE in the public schools.»

While the curricula of accredited medical schools must instruct students in «the fundamental principles of medicine» and accredited law schools must impart the «basic principles of public and private law,» the essential and fundamental principles of teaching have yet to be established.

The 1986 law required all public and private schools to inspect for the cancer - causing substance and to submit management plans to state authorities by Oct. 12.

In a Show - Me Institute poll released in May 2007, 67 percent of Missouri voters and 77 percent of African Americans said they favored a law that would «give individuals and businesses a credit on either their property or state income taxes for contributions they make to education scholarships that help parents send their children to a school of their choice, including public, private, and religious schools.»

Allison Hertog is a member of the Step Up for Students governance board and is the founding attorney of Making School Work, a private law firm whose mission is to help parents access the right placement — public or private — for their special needs children.

The law, which critics view as an unwarranted intrusion on privacy, gives employees of Wisconsin public and private schools the same rights as emergency personnel, medical workers, correctional officers, and group - home workers to require blood tests under comparable circumstances.

Initiated in 1991 by a Minnesota law allowing private non-profit entities to receive public funding to operate schools if authorized by a state agency, the idea has spread to more than 40 states, and some 1.5 million students today attend charter schools.

She's someone who has used her inherited wealth and the wealth that she's married into to try to distort and reshape our laws to advance her personal views, which are that we should basically redefine public education to mean our tax dollars should be going to fund private schools, religious schools, that advance her worldview.

To establish that the school was a «state actor,» he made five arguments: that Arizona law defines a charter school as a public school; that a charter school is a state actor for all purposes, including employment; that a charter school provides a public education, a function that is traditionally and exclusively the prerogative of the state; that a charter school is a state actor in Arizona because the state regulates the personnel matters of such schools; and that it is a state actor because charter schools, unlike traditional private schools, are permitted to participate in the state's retirement system.

State and federal law require each public school district and each approved private school to report to OSPI all known incidents involving the possession of weapons on school premises, transportation systems, or in areas of facilities while being used exclusively by public or private schools.

A Mississippi law provided that the state could loan textbooks to students in public and private schools.

Currently, 17 states have laws that generate private school vouchers through a tax - credit mechanism and that divert up to $ 1 billion annually from public coffers.

After graduating law school, Ms. Smeltzer worked in private practice representing local school districts and other public entities.

Another law I signed this year provides a tax credit to groups that donate public - and private - school scholarships for families.

Federal and state laws mandate that public schools provide some services that aren't required of private schools.

Either because of public opposition, lawsuits, or the modest scope of voucher and tax - credit scholarship laws, only some 200,000 students nationwide attend private schools through choice systems, a paltry figure compared to the 50 million students in public schools across the United States.

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.»

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During the reauthorization process, there was a collective effort by NSBA and local school board members to advocate before Members of Congress for a modernized education law that underscores the importance of local governance, protects federal investments in Title I grants for disadvantaged students, and prevents the diversion of public tax dollars for private use.

If parents believe charter schools and private schools will address the diverse needs of children with disabilities, they need to read the history as to why Public Law 94 - 142 was created in the first place.

The complaint says the law violates the state's constitution by «improperly diverting public school funds to private nonprofit groups» not subject to local voter control and creates another roadblock to funding basic education.

A 2012 state law prompted the overhaul of the state's existing quality rating system and required a uniform rating system for all early childhood programs that receive any public funding, including private providers, federally funded Head Start centers and pre-K classrooms in public and private schools.

State law (Act 55) specifies that annually every public school, including charter schools, and each private school participating in a Choice program is to provide parents with a copy of their school report card and a list of their educational options, including the Special Needs Scholarship Program.

Each school district must and a state supported public school or a private school may develop and maintain a system by which members of the instructional staff may demonstrate mastery of professional education competence as required by law.

The Education Practices Commission consists of 25 members, including 8 teachers; 5 administrators, at least one of whom shall represent a private school; 7 lay citizens, 5 of whom shall be parents of public school students and who are unrelated to public school employees and 2 of whom shall be former district school board members; and 5 sworn law enforcement officials, appointed by the State Board of Education from nominations by the Commissioner of Education and subject to Senate confirmation.