Sentences with phrase «purpose of a law school»

If a purpose of law school is to educate young lawyers then how can this not be part of the education.

Similarly, the endless navel - gazing discussions about teaching pedagogy, exam writing and exam - taking advice, practical credentials for doctrinal faculty, curricular reform, law school rankings, and the very identity and purpose of a law school and its relationship to lawyering would benefit from some thought and understanding about the role of the LRW course.

The purpose of law school is not to prepare graduates for a legal career.

The purpose of law school is to grant law degrees, which are essentially undergraduate primers on legal principles, legislation and case law.

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Moderator: William V. Harris, William R. Shepherd Professor of History and Director, Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University Speaker 1: L. Randall Wray, Research Director of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and Professor of Economics, University of Missouri - Kansas City Speaker 2: Michael Hudson, President, Institute for the Study of Long - Term Economic Trends and Distinguished Research Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City Tuesday, September 11, 2012 About the Seminar Series: Modern Money and Public Purpose is an eight - part, interdisciplinary seminar series held at Columbia Law School over the 2012 - 2013 academic...

The rabbis, especially the school of Hillel, recognized that changing circumstances required new ways of applying the law; but, so far as I am aware, they did not pronounce any law contrary to God's original purpose.

The purpose of the law was to keep Catholic priests and nuns from teaching in public schools.

Some schools put out a cooler and cups, which is great, but if a cafeteria has a water fountain, even if it's ancient and the water tastes terrible, that suffices for purposes of the law.

School districts in some states, including all five surveyed, may have additional protection under «recreational use» statutes, which offer immunity from certain claims against landowners who open their property to the public for recreational use.10 In states with broad recreational use statutes, such as Indiana, opening school kitchen facilities could be considered a protected activity under the law, depending on the circumstances of the use and other factors.11 However, in Massachusetts, protection for recreational activities extends only to purposes that are «scientific, educational, environmental, ecological, research, religious, or charitable,» 12 so the state's statute might not apply when districts allow for - profit groups to use school kitSchool districts in some states, including all five surveyed, may have additional protection under «recreational use» statutes, which offer immunity from certain claims against landowners who open their property to the public for recreational use.10 In states with broad recreational use statutes, such as Indiana, opening school kitchen facilities could be considered a protected activity under the law, depending on the circumstances of the use and other factors.11 However, in Massachusetts, protection for recreational activities extends only to purposes that are «scientific, educational, environmental, ecological, research, religious, or charitable,» 12 so the state's statute might not apply when districts allow for - profit groups to use school kitschool kitchen facilities could be considered a protected activity under the law, depending on the circumstances of the use and other factors.11 However, in Massachusetts, protection for recreational activities extends only to purposes that are «scientific, educational, environmental, ecological, research, religious, or charitable,» 12 so the state's statute might not apply when districts allow for - profit groups to use school kitschool kitchens.

In fact, when the current Ghana School of Law was set up in 1958 at Makola, the purpose was to train non-degreed civil servants to become lawyers.

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, but subject to such requirements as the legislature shall impose by general or special law, indebtedness contracted by any county, city, town, village or school district and each portion thereof from time to time contracted for any object or purpose for which indebtedness may be contracted may also be financed by sinking fund bonds with a maximum maturity of fifty years, which shall be redeemed through annual contributions to sinking funds established by such county, city, town, village or school district, provided, however, that each such annual contribution shall be at least equal to the amount required, if any, to enable the sinking fund to redeem, on the date of the contribution, the same amount of such indebtedness as would have been paid and then be payable if such indebtedness had been financed entirely by the issuance of serial bonds, except, if an issue of sinking fund bonds is combined for sale with an issue of serial bonds, for the same object or purpose, then the amount of each annual sinking fund contribution shall be at least equal to the amount required, if any, to enable the sinking fund to redeem, on the date of each such annual contribution, (i) the amount which would be required to be paid annually if such indebtedness had been issued entirely as serial bonds, less (ii) the amount of indebtedness, if any, to be paid during such year on the portion of such indebtedness actually issued as serial bonds.

Law, medical, and business schools fastidiously prepare for and proudly track the careers of their graduates because they see their purpose as — and make their money by — educating students.

It was never the intention of these laws to require schools to ban teachers and students from accessing the Internet for the purpose of learning.

«A lot of people in special education have a mindset that it's all about compliance, but if you take a step back and understand the purposes of the law, I think you'll see this is less about complying and filling out IEPs left and right, and more thinking about, «Well, how do I problem solve to ensure my school is better meeting the needs of kids with disabilities?»»

A lot of people in special education have a mindset that it's all about compliance, but if you take a step back and understand the purposes of the law, I think you'll see this less as compliance and filling out IEPs left and right, and more thinking about, «Well, how do I problem solve to ensure my school is better meeting the needs of kids with disabilities?»

The purpose of Professor Javier Collado is to contribute to achieving the general objectives and core competencies set by the Organic Law 2/2006 of March 3, in the high school, with the «diffusion of knowledge» through a photo exhibition and an educational - multidisciplinary talk and consciousness - raising that will address the «different realities - realities equal» to live in the countries he has been working in Latin America: Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, and Mexico.

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.

These involve recent LEA boundary changes that have not yet been incorporated into the Census database for LEAs (which usually takes two to three years), charter schools that are treated as separate LEAs under the laws of some states but are not in the Census LEA database (because they are not based on exclusive geographical boundaries), and some special purpose LEAs that provide particular educational services (such as vocational and technical education or education for certain students with disabilities) to multiple «regular» LEAs in certain states.

The purpose of the law is to make sure schools do not neglect the academic needs of groups of students who traditionally perform poorly.

«The whole purpose of federal law and state law should be to help schools improve, not to come in and close them down and say, «We're going to start with a clean slate,» because there's no guarantee that the clean slate's going to be better than the old slate,» says Ravitch.

In 2015, lawmakers said that for the purposes of the law, charter schools should be considered government entities when the lawmakers say so — and only then.

Alabama also enacted tuition grant state laws permitting students to use vouchers at private schools in the mid-1950s, while also enacting nullification statutes against court desegregation mandates and altering its teacher tenure laws to allow the firing of teachers who supported desegregation.50 Alabama's tuition grant laws would also come before the court, with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama declaring in Lee v. Macon County Board of Education vouchers to be «nothing more than a sham established for the purpose of financing with state funds a white school system.»

One of the purposes of enacting New York's charter school law was specifically to «provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems.»

Because the purpose of Title 1 is to provide additional support for children from poor and minority backgrounds, any use of the subsidies for general school operations (including for kids from the middle class) is a violation of federal law.

Consistent with NSBA's position as outlined in its «friend of the court» (amicus) brief, Justice Samuel Alito delivered the Court's unanimous opinion and found that the school officials in this case should not be viewed as law enforcement agents, and the statements made by the young child to the teachers were not given with the «primary purpose of creating an out - of - court substitute for trial testimony.»

During a speech on C - SPAN after the voucher law passed the Indiana General Assembly in 2011, former Gov. Mitch Daniels explained the purpose of the program was to include public schools into the school choice program.

Upon submission of fingerprints for this purpose, the school district shall request the Department of Law Enforcement to forward the fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for federal criminal records checks, and the fingerprints shall be retained by the Department of Law Enforcement under s. 1012.32 (3)(a) and (b).

In spite of the longstanding use of this data, some doubt was cast on the practice when a program analyst from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) sent an e-mail to Wake County school officials stating that the use such data for student assignment purposes might violate privacy laws.

Once reviewed, revised, and approved, these plans will shape the work that states and school districts undertake to narrow achievement gaps for low - income kids, which is the purpose of the law.

Tommy Fuller of the Fuller Law Group, filed an Amicus Curiae brief on behalf of TCSA and the Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools (LAPCS) in support of the Louisiana charter school's claims and arguing that Louisiana public charter schools are political subdivisions for purposes of the NLRA and should be exempt from the NLRB's jurisdSchools (LAPCS) in support of the Louisiana charter school's claims and arguing that Louisiana public charter schools are political subdivisions for purposes of the NLRA and should be exempt from the NLRB's jurisdschools are political subdivisions for purposes of the NLRA and should be exempt from the NLRB's jurisdiction.

Many for - profit providers of the tutoring, known in the NCLB law as supplemental education services, have had to pursue new K - 12 revenue streams, or even close their doors, as federal funding funneled through affected school districts is being reallocated for other purposes.

Tommy Fuller of the Fuller Law Group represented Universal Academy and successfully argued that charter schools are exempt from the NLRB's jurisdiction because they qualify as political subdivisions for the purposes of the National Labor Relations Act.

The group's purpose is to «advise and assist» school districts and charter schools in achieving the goals of their annual accountability plans that the school funding law requires.

While the primary purpose of the program is to help charter schools, «Finance school building projects, including the construction, purchase, extension, replacement, renovation or major alteration of a building to be used for public school purposes,» the law does allow charter school companies to seek grants to, «Repay debt incurred for school building projects, including paying outstanding principal on loans which have been incurred for school building projects.»

Citing a different provision, he said, «The law specifically says that school districts shall not include teacher pay when they measure spending for purposes of comparability.»

The substitute amendment prohibits the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) from considering how many pupils enrolled in a school or school district have been excused from taking an examination required under state or federal law for purposes of the annual school and school district accountability report published by DPI.

Indeed, in a 2013 examination of charter school laws, researchers found the most popular purpose cited in state law for charter schools was to provide competition.41 The triumph of the market rationale over the laboratory theory also helps explain why more than 80 percent of states with charter school laws allow public funds to go to private, for - profit charter operators.42

Mandating additional testing, in federal education law, of every pubic school student in every school every year is unnecessary for the federal government to serve its purposes or the purposes as originally laid down in ESEA.

«The Education Code expressly allows a school district to deviate from... seniority for... purposes of maintaining or achieving compliance with constitutional requirements related to equal protection of the laws,» said the ruling from Judge William F. Highberger.

Our experience extends to the areas of economic development corporations and municipal law, and in the representation of special purpose districts, cooperatives, shared service arrangements, utility districts, head start agencies, private schools, public and private colleges and universities, chambers of commerce, and education foundations as well as other nonprofit organizations.

«The purpose of the senator's amendment is to stop the administration's efforts to shut down school voucher programs by inappropriately expanding Title II over schools that would otherwise not be subject to the law.»

The purpose of this project is to enhance collaboration and coordination among schools, mental and behavioral health specialists, law enforcement and juvenile justice officials to help students succeed in school and prevent negative outcomes for youth and communities.

(F) The provisions of sections 10 - 153a to 10 - 153n, inclusive, [which are the state's collective bargaining laws] shall not apply to any teacher or administrator who is assigned to a commissioner's network school, except (i) that such teacher or administrator shall, for the purposes of ratification of an agreement only, be permitted to vote as a member of the teacher or administrator bargaining unit, as appropriate, for the local or regional board of education in which the commissioner's network school is located, and (ii) insofar as any such provisions protect any entitlement of such teacher or administrator to benefits or leave accumulated or accrued prior to the teacher or administrator being employed in a commissioner's network school.

(u) Notwithstanding this section or any other general or special law to the contrary, for the purposes of chapter 268A: (i) a charter school shall be deemed to be a state agency; and (ii) the appointing official of a member of the board of trustees of a charter school shall be deemed to be the commissioner.

The WASB has strong concerns about a provision in the amended bill that prohibits the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) from considering how many pupils enrolled in a school or school district have been excused from taking an examination required under state or federal law for purposes of the annual school and school district accountability report published by DPI.

In addition to the prohibited activities detailed in Sections I (B) and II (B) of this policy, the following types of activities are not Acceptable School Activities: Using Syracuse City School District's computers, networks or Internet services for illegal purposes, in violation of Syracuse City School District's policies or in violation of city, state or federal laws.

After describing the high stakes that characterize school choice debates, I track the purpose of charter schools, defining them both in terms of theory and Massachusetts state law.

The decades - old provision of the state's open records law is now troubling some Democratic lawmakers after voucher school lobbying group School Choice Wisconsin sought student information from about 30 Wisconsin school districts for marketing purschool lobbying group School Choice Wisconsin sought student information from about 30 Wisconsin school districts for marketing purSchool Choice Wisconsin sought student information from about 30 Wisconsin school districts for marketing purschool districts for marketing purposes.

[4], [5] Massachusetts state law codifies this purpose in G.L. c. 71, § 89, which, in part, states that charter schools are to be established «to stimulate the development of innovative programs within public education» and «to provide models for replication in other public schools.»

«That the Regents find that the proposed charter school: (1) meets the requirements set out in Article 56 of the Education Law, and all other applicable laws, rules and regulations; (2) will operate in an educationally and fiscally sound manner; (3) is likely to improve student learning and achievement and materially further the purposes set out in subdivision two of section twenty - eight hundred fifty of Article 56 of the Education Law; and (4) will have a significant educational benefit to the students expected to attend the charter school, and the Board of Regents therefore approves and issues a charter and provisional charter to the Capital Preparatory Harlem Charter School for a term of five years in accordance with § 2851 (2)(p) of the Educatioschool: (1) meets the requirements set out in Article 56 of the Education Law, and all other applicable laws, rules and regulations; (2) will operate in an educationally and fiscally sound manner; (3) is likely to improve student learning and achievement and materially further the purposes set out in subdivision two of section twenty - eight hundred fifty of Article 56 of the Education Law; and (4) will have a significant educational benefit to the students expected to attend the charter school, and the Board of Regents therefore approves and issues a charter and provisional charter to the Capital Preparatory Harlem Charter School for a term of five years in accordance with § 2851 (2)(p) of the Educatioschool, and the Board of Regents therefore approves and issues a charter and provisional charter to the Capital Preparatory Harlem Charter School for a term of five years in accordance with § 2851 (2)(p) of the EducatioSchool for a term of five years in accordance with § 2851 (2)(p) of the Education Law.