Sentences with phrase «civil rights detailing»

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The group, Nexus Derechos Humanos, a civil - rights firm based in Virginia and Georgia, said it would detail the federal lawsuit at a press conference Thursday in front of Broward's circuit court.

I'm trying to determine what is sillier: the restaurants sorry attempt to promote religion or the FFRFs trying to make it into a civil rights issue, unless certain details were left out like they had to utter a specific prayer.

In his policy announcement on civil liberties on 7th January 2011, Nick Clegg simply asserted that the right would be restored — without any detail analysis or explanation of what that might mean or what would be needed.

Hawkins has a plank on Civil Rights and Racial Justice in his platform that addresses these issues in more detail at www.howiehawkins.org/platform.

«Hosting Speaker Boehner provides an opportunity to discuss with one of the most important leaders in our country issues like expanding economic opportunities both in Indian County and Central New York, investing in public priorities and improving education and civil rights protections,» Barkin said without offering specific details.

Angela Bassett plays the title role in this meticulously detailed biography of pioneering civil rights activist Rosa McCauley Parks.

To the Mountaintop: My Journey through the Civil Rights Movement is a moving memoir which eloquently recounts their historic achievement in glowing detail.

Ava DuVernay's 13th is an equally important film and worth a watch, but the lyricism and beauty of Raoul Peck's I Am Not Your Negro, based on an unfinished manuscript by social critic James Baldwin detailing his friendships and interactions with civil rights leaders, has stuck with me.

Their looks are just a starting point for this sensational recap of a small chunk of American history, Johnson's difficult first year in office, detailing an outsize personality and the civil rights legislation he forced through Congress.

Despite sourcing Wil Haygood's Washington Post article «A Butler Well Served by this Election», this is very much an uneven, fictional account that recklessly uses Allen's biographical details to ask about the separation between servant and slave, while filtering these characters through the various decades of racial tension and the Civil Rights Movement of America.

In another timely feature, Shep Melnick gives us an assessment of the October 2014 «Dear Colleague Letter» from the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, which demanded that each school district provide a detailed accounting of resources available to each school in order to avoid allegations of racially disparate impacts on children.

In October, 2014, the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) sent a 37 - page «Dear Colleague» letter (DCL) to public schools, detailing what they must do to ensure that all children have «equal access to educational resources without regard to race, color, or national origin.»

Officials at the Department of Education's office for civil rights have expanded a controversial draft guide outlining the proper use of high - stakes tests in an effort to better detail the legal principles involved and ways in which such issues will affect students.

Since 2010, the civil rights office has issued detailed directives on eliminating racial disparities in school discipline; the allocation of school resources among racial groups; schools» responsibility for preventing bullying; the use of race - based assignments to achieve diversity; achieving gender equity in intercollegiate and interscholastic sports, and support for pregnant and parenting students.

During the Obama administration, this office charged full speed ahead into the nation's culture wars by imposing on every educational institution in the country novel and detailed mandates based on very broad interpretations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race and national origin) and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex).

The speech to the annual meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the nation's oldest civil rights organization, offered the most detailed picture yet of the direction that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee would take federal K - 12 education policy if he is elected to the...

While woefully short on details, this proposal makes clear that the administration seeks to create a new $ 250 million federal program that will allow taxpayer dollars to flow to private schools, which are not accountable; can discriminate in admissions and discipline; and are not subject to basic monitoring, oversight, and civil rights laws.

The AFT also sent the HELP committee a detailed letter Wednesday morning, which in part reflected the civil rights groups» concerns about «limiting accountability to only the lowest 5 percent of schools, and leaving it up to states to address how other schools will be held accountable.»

The new platform called education choice «one of the greatest civil rights challenges of our time» and detailed the Party's support for education savings accounts (ESAs), vouchers, tuition tax credits, and portability of federal funding:

In conjunction with Education Trust - New York, an «unprecedented coalition» of 12 education, business, and civil rights organizations, cosigned a policy memo detailing recommendations for the state of New York to use ESSA to create accountability systems that «maintain high standards, prioritize closing achievement gaps, ensure...

As Dropout Nation detailed in this week's review of the AFT's finances (as well as in analysis of the NEA's spending), another way that nonpolitical dollars become political is when unions pass along millions in taxpayer - funded dues to organizations, from civil rights groups to feminist groups, so as to enlist future loyalty.

The answers detail the billionaire nominee's views on the federal role in higher education, school vouchers and protecting civil rights.

This certainly seemed to be the case in the initial phase of the Common Core State Standards, when the idea of «fewer, clearer, and higher» standards that were consistent across states was supported by an unprecedented coalition of business, civil rights, government, and labor groups (see McDonnell and Weatherford's (2013) article «Evidence Use and the Common Core State Standards Movement: From Problem Definition to Policy Adoption» in the American Journal of Education for a detailed explanation of the varying reasons why so many different groups initially supported the Common Core).

detailing how students» civil rights under federal laws will be impacted when students participate in these programs to attend private schools;

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No details on the type of personal care are necessary in this instance, and in the rare case they would be, the Office of Civil Rights or Counsel office should be consulted for guidance on how such information should be properly requested and maintained.

Full of original research and interviews with many personally involved, this book goes into detail about the murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi during the summer of 1964 and how the perpetrators were brought to at least partial justice.

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In a breathtaking tour de force, Caro details Johnson's amazing triumph in maneuvering to passage the first civil rights legislation since 1875.

MURDER AS CATALYST In The Blood of Emmett Till, Timothy B. Tyson delivers a riveting, richly detailed account of the crime that reignited the civil rights movement.

An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids» point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.

In the same manner that the Pulitzer Prize - winning book «Parting the Waters: America in the King Years» by Taylor Branch and the PBS series «Eyes on the Prize» recount and contextualize the violent details and hard - won victories of the civil rights movement, the work of these artists offers a poignant lens through which to view the era.

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The installation at Metro Pictures features large scale photographs paired with detailed annotated maps, and a separate video installation of covert surveillance locations along with something called Autonomy Cube (right), created in collaboration with digital civil rights activist Jacob Appelbaum.

The museum announced details about the project over the summer, reporting the artist is utilizing Smithsonian resources, delving into the archives to research overlooked voices of women who participated in the Civil Rights Movement.

Elsewhere, Theaster Gates's In Case of Race Riot II (2011), a fireman's hose coiled and framed in a wooden box, evokes the high - pressure water guns historically used to suppress civil rights protests; Kara Walker's deceptively playful cutouts tell narratives of the cruel racial dynamics and oppressive stereotypes of the antebellum South; and Titus Kaphar's chilling duo of paintings in The Jerome Project (My Loss)(2014) show the monumental, detailed face of a black man disappearing behind a rising glut of thick black paint.

The Court could not meddle in the details of lawmaking and administration, but it could require that the other branches of government take actions that provide for civil rights with all deliberate speed, a phrase that was associated with the much - respected Oliver Wendell Holmes.

A recent decision of Mew J., provides an excellent, comprehensive, summary of the law on civil jury trials including the law pertaining to the fundamental right to a jury trial and a detailed discussion of the law pertaining to a judge's discretion to strike a jury notice.

«Despite the likely impact from wide - sweeping cuts to the civil legal aid system the government in essence made its decisions in extreme haste, without detailed analysis of the potential human rights impact,» the report said.

The nine case studies detailed in the report, each written by a different domestic civil liberties and human rights organization, provide contemporary examples of different governments» reactions to peaceful protests.

When filing a claim for wrongful termination, you will need to first detail the incident with the Texas Workforce Commission Civil Rights Division or Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

I am recommended in Chambers 2014, where my details are here for civil liberties and human rights and here for family law; also in the Legal500, at here, here, and here.

In other words, the civil rights violations committed by the BPD and detailed in the DOJ's recent report extend to high - tech surveillance as well.

Earlier this year, EPIC and a broad coalition of civil rights organizations submitted a Freedom of Information Act request seeking details of the Trump Administration's «extreme vetting» initiative, including the collection and use of social media information.

The Civil Partnership Bill will provide a statutory way for the registration of partnerships, it will details the rights, duties and responsibilities of couples in such partnerships and set out what happens on the dissolution of partnerships.

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These studies may help to explain some of the high profile cases of individuals who appear anti-gay only to reveal later to be gay themselves (á la Larry Craig, the US senator who went from championing an anti-gay political agenda to a scandalous airport bathroom encounter with another man); check out this NYTimes article for more about the details of the study.2 This is not to say that every individual who opposes civil rights for the LGBT population is actually gay or that it is typical for gay individuals to unconsciously suppress their sexual desires.