Sentences with phrase «as inequitable»

Less assets and lower income leads to lower spousal support and child support payments, as well as an inequitable split in marital assets.

Factors such as inequitable levels of school funding, unequal distribution of highly qualified and experienced teachers, harsh disciplinary policies, minimally articulated core curriculum, and lack of consistent instructional support can result in a system that causes vulnerable students to continue falling further behind.

As inequitable distribution of wealth increases, democratic principles and humane ideology recedes.

The group had recently read a research brief high - lighting the effect of teachers on student achievement as well as the inequitable distribution of teachers within districts, with higher - income, higher - performing schools getting the pick of the litter.

He says that it is unnecessary and that adjustments would camouflage such institutional problems as the inequitable distribution of teaching talent.

Tenure is under attack, having been criticized by business - oriented administrators as inefficient and by women as inequitable.

Clearly, mandating raises for one category of employees while furloughing and even laying off others would strike many as inequitable.

Those familiar with the governor's thinking say Mr. Cuomo views the mayor's plan as an inequitable one: If a prekindergarten program is paid for with tax revenue from the wealthy, then New York City could be at a distinct advantage over smaller and poorer municipalities around the state.

«While the executive's proposal falls far short of eliminating the GEA in [fiscal year] 2017, it will likely be looked at as inequitable because some districts had their GEA eliminated and some did not,» the Senate analysis said.

Not exact matches

What's become known as the «Group of 46» letter to Stanford Provost John Etchemendy was filed in the Phills suit, and accuses the dean of presiding over «reprimands, censures, curtailing of responsibilities, demotions, retribution for expressing concerns or raising issues, offensive behavior and decisions that have led directly to tangible employment actions such as dismissals, undesirable reassignments, forced resignations, and inequitable access to promotion opportunities.»

As such, it is an inequitable tax on low and middle - income workers.

In an alert to clients, attorneys from the law firm Olshan describe the scope of the legislation as «unduly burdensome, excessive and inequitable,» and warn that «it could have a chilling effect on shareholder activism and proxy advisory work that have a specified presence in Texas, which, in turn, would help entrench management and the Boards of underperforming Texas - based companies.»

Mr. Macdonald singled out five federal tax measures as being the most inequitable to lower income people based on 2011 data — the dividend tax credit, partial inclusion of capital gains, the foreign tax credit, employee stock options and pension income splitting.

(In a recent column, he labeled as «radical fiscal immorality» Bush's request for $ 87 billion for Iraq with no new taxes to pay the bill) But he does not despise Republicans, often agreeing that market approaches are dynamic ways of organizing production, even though they are inequitable ways of organizing distribution.

One of the biggest hassles for the homeless on the road as well as those on city streets is struggling with an inequitable, irrational welfare system.

As I have written in a previous article, Sin is the belly of sexism, racism, classism and other forms of systemic inequality resulting in inequitable education / training / opportunity / pay; harassment; domestic and sexual violence; pornography; sex trafficking; slavery and other crimes.

As for the potential fallout from another inequitable outcome, Price reiterated his main point.

Speaking at a City Hall press conference with fellow Staten Island Republican and Council Member Joe Borelli, Malliotakis pledged to appoint a commission within 60 days of taking office, with a goal of producing changes to the complex property tax system in the City that's widely viewed as uneven and inequitable.

At a time when the corporate education reformers like Governor Cuomo scapegoat teachers, underfund public schools, and push high - stakes testing linked to Common Core as way to justify the expansion of privately - managed charter schools, she has persistently brought forth real facts about how poverty, segregation, and inequitable school funding affect testing and achievement in public schools.

Teachers, parents, union leaders and even some school superintendents and board members in New York are clothed in blue to show their concern for what they see as an overemphasis on testing, an under - emphasis on state education funding, and inequitable spending between districts.

Without a renewal, the city's education system — servicing some 1.1 million students — would revert to the former arrangement of local school boards, which was frequently criticized as inefficient, inequitable and corrupt.

Inequitable gender norms are not only related to domestic violence, but also to other behaviors such as multiple sexual partners, smoking and alcohol abuse which lead to poor health outcomes.

The guidebook also offers an extensive treatment of the sector's most challenging policy issues, including inequitable funding levels, acquiring suitable facilities, and human - capital obstacles such as inflexible rules on certification and collective bargaining.

As of 2005, funding mechanisms in 36 states had been challenged on the grounds that interdistrict spending was inequitable.

The short - term fate of proposals to change the way schools are run and financed in the state is in question because the Republican Governor - elect, Fob James Jr., has said he opposes a 1993 court ruling that found K - 12 schools so inadequate and inequitable as to be unconstitutional.

Particular emphasis was placed on how inequitable funding for public schools can hamper efforts to boost academic outcomes and improve achievement among vulnerable student populations, as well as on exploring what could be done to change it.

Segregation by race and income continues to menace our public schools, as does inequitable allocation of resources.

This new paradigm doesn't prevent either party from challenging unfair or inequitable tactics such as excluding children with disabilities or seeking fairness in areas such as funding or facilities.

«Illinois has the most inequitable education funding system in the nation, where poorer districts spend as little as $ 6,000 per student while wealthier districts spend up to $ 30,000 per student,» Ostro said in a statement.

Those frustrations were visible at a recent State Board of Education meeting, as turnaround operators offered blunt assessments of the current state of affairs in IPS schools, while district officials unsuccessfully argued state officials» funding formula for the takeovers is inequitable.

Despite overwhelming odds, given inequitable charter funding and fast - paced reform - oriented timelines that all public schools are working to meet, Side by Side students are reaching achievement levels that guarantee they are on track to college and career readiness as they head toward high school.

This imbalance contributes to larger trends of pay disparity, perceived social status, and inequitable career advancement seen in American society as a whole.

I argue there are three distinct, yet overlapping, logics of instructional leadership most relevant to the principals in this study: the prevailing logic, a broad and flexible set of ideas, easily implemented across a wide variety of school settings; the entrepreneurial logic, which emphasizes specific actionable practices that lead to increases in student achievement as measured by standardized test scores; and the social justice logic, focused on the experiences and inequitable outcomes of marginalized students and leadership practices that address these outcomes through a focus on process.

«The existence of a weighted student funding model does not prevent a state's finance system from becoming inadequate, inequitable, or overly complicated, just as North Carolina's resource allocation model does not preclude this state from having a system that is adequate, equitable and transparent,» the report said.

The Partnership welcomed its role as a defendant in order to have a seat at the table to ensure reforms were implemented to protect students from this and other such inequitable policies.

As we do so, we actively examine our roles in perpetuating inequitable systems.

A January report from the Tennessee Comptroller's Offices of Research and Education Accountability (OREA) spotlights the unique challenges Tennessee's public charter schools face as a result of inequitable policies for locally allocated capital funds, the main source of facility funding for traditional Tennessee public schools.

Prior to the change, Illinois funding formula was one of the most, if not the most, inequitable funding systems in the country, as pointed out by this 2015 report by the Education Trust.

Prior to the change, Illinois funding formula was one of the most, if not the most, inequitable funding systems in the country, as pointed out by

(2) a pattern of social institutions — such as governmental organizations, schools, banks, and courts of law — giving inequitable treatment to a group of people based on their race.

The SBAC use of technology as the testing format is inequitable because children use different kinds of devices to take the tests, some of which are more user friendly than others, and the children vary greatly in their familiarity with technology.

Phased in over eight years, the LCFF obliterates the state's old finance system long denigrated as ineffective, dizzyingly complex and, above all, inequitable.

NJ Left Behind started as an anonymous place for me to to vent my frustrations with the state's inequitable education system.

He also came out against Race to the Top, calling it the program a recipe for inequitable funding among the states — such as Alabama — that lose out.

Unfortunately, carryover effects of prior funding decisions still require the use of hold harmless clauses to ensure that many school districts (including a mixture of wealthy and average wealth districts) continue to receive a least as much state and local revenue as was provided in prior sessions, even when those amounts were inequitable.

Having a strong education system produces economic gains for Pennsylvania and the nation as a whole; conversely the effects of having an inadequate, inequitable system drain our economy.

We can not solve the problem of educational inequity while we ignore the inequitable and inadequate resources available to low - income children in their homes and communities, as well as their schools.

Sadly, Connecticut has been defaulting on this duty for decades as short - term fixes and patchwork policies have failed to address the roots of inequitable funding across the state's public schools.

Renaissance Academy Charter School of the Arts Chief Educational Officer Donna Marie Cozine, said, «The inequitable funding for public charter school students communicates to our children and families that they aren't entitled the same resources as public district schools.

And the distribution is inequitable - there are many fewer librarians on the South and West side and in High schools as oppose to ES.