Sentences with phrase «california education equality»

Review anticipated arguments from State Defendants and Intervenors in the Vergara v. California education equality trial.

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The court might also invoke the citizenship clause, asserting that all children need an education sufficient to ensure equal citizenship, which entails political, civil, and social equality, as California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu has argued.

Their successes have led community organizers and a growing number of education policymakers to see California's fledgling community schooling movement as a holistic, bottom - up reform that can restore equality of opportunity and the democratic promise of the state's system of universal public education.

Plaintiffs» closing arguments PowerPoint, presented in court on the last day of the Vergara v. California, sums up what's at issue and what's at stake in the historic education equality case.

According to the parents» complaint, the district and the union have violated the children's «fundamental right to basic educational equality and opportunity» by failing to comply with a section of the California Education Code known as the Stull Act.

California is a state that prides itself on our inclusiveness and commitment to equality, but when it comes to education, we are falling short.

This week, The Wall Street Journal published an op - ed by Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr. and Joshua S. Lipshutz, two lead members of the legal team behind Vergara v. California and the new federal education equality lawsuit, Martinez v. Malloy, in which the attorneys make the case for a constitutional right to education and federal legal protections for disadvantaged students.

There, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge found similar state laws unconstitutional, ruling that tenure rules disproportionately saddle poor and minority students with «grossly ineffective» teachers, a violation of the right to equality of education spelled out in California's constitution.

PPLA's comprehensive sexuality education curriculum centers on critical thinking, human rights, gender equality, and access to health care, and is aligned with the sexual health education requirements of the California Healthy Youth Act.