Sentences with phrase «winning new law school»

Our three - year JD Program offers students a well - established curriculum taught by an outstanding group of legal academics with the benefit of state - of - the - art facilities in an award winning new law school building that includes bright, modern classrooms and student study spaces.

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Leading Bishops could appeal to the new Tory leader to adopt policies which would transform laws which handicap schools into optional recommendations, in order to win back essential freedoms.

Schumer embarked on his political career by winning a New York state Assembly seat in 1974, the same year he graduated from Harvard law school.

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.

When it came to state data systems, charter school laws, and teacher policy, winning states like Ohio, Hawaii, Maryland, and New York finished well back in the pack on rankings compiled by the Data Quality Campaign, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, and the National Council on Teacher Quality.

In addition, Mr. Gosnell said, there's reluctance to support round two since the union was pressured to support passage of a new charter - school - expansion law enacted to help Massachusetts win a Race to the Top grant, only to see the state end up losing in round one.

Only five new charter schools are authorized in the first year of the Washington law, and the first five applicants to win approval would exhaust that allocation.

1912: NEA endorses Women's Suffrage 1919: NEA members in New Jersey lead the way to the nation's first state pension; by 1945, every state had a pension plan in effect 1941: NEA successfully lobbied Congress for special funding for public schools near military bases 1945: NEA lobbied for the G.I. Bill of Rights to help returning soldiers continue their education 1958: NEA helps gain passage of the National Defense Education Act 1964: NEA lobbies to pass the Civil Rights Act 1968: NEA leads an effort to establish the Bilingual Education Act 1974: NEA backs a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court that proposes to make unlawful the firing of pregnant teachers or forced maternity leave 1984: NEA fights for and wins passage of a federal retirement equity law that provides the means to end sex discrimination against women in retirement funds 2000s: NEA has lobbied for changes to the No Child Left Behind Act 2009: NEA delegates to the Representative Assembly pass a resolution that opposes the discriminatory treatment of same - sex couple

The only problem is that the state's teacher association, school administrators and the League of Women Voters have challenged the new state law allowing charters — a suit that won a partial victory from a superior court judge last week.

Another great finding tool is the IALL award - winning, free Internet resource, GlobaLex, hosted at New York University's Hauser Global Law School Program, and edited by Lucie Olejnikova and Mirela Roznovschi.

February 2014 - PA Innocence Project at Temple Law Wins New Trial for Wrongly Convicted Pittsburgh Man: Temple Law School

She earned her J.D. magna cum laude from New York University School of Law, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and won the graduation award for excellence in Constitutional Law.

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The second is about the failure of the new Charleston School of Law to win accreditation from the ABA in part because the adequacy of its print library resources.