Sentences with phrase «ensure equal support»

Ensure equal support and opportunities for different extracurricular activities such as sports and other leisure programs

Not exact matches

Ashcroft's bill allows faith - based groups to compete on an equal footing with secular nonprofit organizations for governmental grants to support social - welfare activities, and it explicitly ensures these groups the right to conduct their outreach without compromising their spiritual character.

Hoylman introduced the Supplier Diversity Act in May with the support of the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce to ensure «equal access to contracting opportunities for certified LGBT -, disability -, and veteran - owned small businesses.»

Multimillionaire commodities trader Adam Haber, who's trying to buy a State Senate seat, raised school taxes, opposed the property tax cap, and supports holding legislation ensuring equal pay for women hostage so that non-doctors can perform late term / partial birth abortions.

In my three plus years in the Senate, I've delivered on my promise to ensure our region gets its fair share, which includes record school aid, lowering middle class taxes, enacting equal pay for women, and supporting a better business environment while protecting the rights of workers.

Gipson, though, said Cuomo probably won't be able to count on Saland's support on other key issues, including equal pay for women, raising the minimum wage, ensuring paid family leave and ending discrimination in the workplace.

Over the past 50 years, the role of the federal government in K - 12 public education has been to ensure equal educational access and to provide resources for those students who need additional supports.

The plan's five main objectives, to be delivered by 2021, are: to develop a new Welsh language; to increase opportunities for children and young people to use their Welsh in various contexts and embed their language use patterns from an early age; to support leaders and practitioners in Wales to continue to develop their Welsh language skills and have the knowledge and expertise to deliver the curriculum through the medium of Welsh and Welsh as a subject; to increase the number of learners in Welsh - medium settings; and to ensure that all learners can have equal access to Welsh - medium education and experience the best opportunities to develop their language skills.

School should be an environment which accepts and supports people from all backgrounds, encouraging attainment and ensuring that BME students are given an equal start in life.»

New Hampshire's attorney general will argue that public education is a state and local responsibility but that the state is not obligated to ensure equal funding among school districts, an opinion some local school - board members are preparing to support in the lawsuit over the legality of the state's school - funding method.

Clearly, change is coming, and while NJPSA supports many school - reform initiatives, we must take advantage of the opportunity we have in front of us to do it right and ensure that change equals improvement in student learning.

Denver and other Colorado school districts should be capitalizing on the benefits of socio - economic integration for all students by supporting similar policies that ensure equal access to quality schools for all students regardless of their family income or value of their home.

CCSA «supports charter schools operating in a publicly transparent manner and ensuring equal access to all students,» the statement said.

This heterogeneous grouping ensures all students equal access to the new curriculum and an opportunity to experience the full range of instructional strategies and techniques developed to support its use.

Brian Lightman, of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said: «It is important that all qualifications that count in performance tables have an equal level of challenge, and we support moves to ensure that this will be the case in future.»

«Control» — the governing of our schools — was a state and local responsibility and the federal government was willing to partner in ensuring equal opportunity through financial support, dissemination of information, and assistance in training education personnel.

«We call on the DC Council to support the Mayor's proposed annual increase of 2.2 % to the charter facilities allotment, and we look forward to partnering with the Mayor and the Deputy Mayor for Education to ensure that students in all eight wards have equal access to high - quality public schools.

Connections is committed to working with the schools it supports in ensuring students are provided equal access to the education program.

The Connecticut Center for School Change works to ensure that all students — regardless of income, ethnicity, language, race, zip code, disability — have equal access to and experience of a high - quality education and are supported in achieving at high levels.

Our commitment to equity and equal opportunity runs like a ribbon through all of our initiatives at the U.S. Department of Education — from ensuring that low - income minority students aren't stuck in chronically under - performing schools, to working with districts to get great teachers in the schools and subjects where they are needed most, to targeting billions of dollars to students and schools in need of support.

Catherine E. Lhamon, Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, Dept. of Ed., Dear Colleague Letter: Ensuring that students of all races and national origin backgrounds have equal access to effective teaching, adequate facilities, and quality instructional programs and support including off - campus Internet Connectivity.

The Title I funds are used to provide supplemental core academic instruction, instructional support, and parental involvement and engagement to schools to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high - quality education and reach, at a minimum, proficiency on challenging State academic achievement standards and state academic assessments.

«With their support we can ensure equal access to educational content and stronger technological solutions to enable students to improve their literacy and reading comprehension, thus leading to better school performances overall.»

This week's posting focuses on Georgia State's new Center for Access to Justice, which was founded in 2016 to support those working to ensure meaningful access to the courts and equal treatment in the civil and criminal justice systems, with a regional focus on the South.»

In addition, NJP is an integral member of and provides support for the Alliance for Equal Justice, Washington's coordinated statewide civil legal aid delivery system, which brings together a network of volunteer attorney programs, specialty legal aid providers, and supporters working to ensure equal justice for all low - income communities in WashinEqual Justice, Washington's coordinated statewide civil legal aid delivery system, which brings together a network of volunteer attorney programs, specialty legal aid providers, and supporters working to ensure equal justice for all low - income communities in Washinequal justice for all low - income communities in Washington.

Firstly the court dealt with the wife's contribution to the husband's career and her own career loss on an equal division of the family property and then the court looked at spousal support and noted a review would need to occur to ensure the spousal support took into account Vancouver cross over spousal support.

The Executive Director will uphold a culture of collaboration and transparency to ensure operations consistently support exceptional quality services, which in turn meet the civil legal needs of low - income people, empower them to transform their lives and assure equal access to opportunities and justice with an appreciation for the barriers low - income people face.

Administrative Coordinator: - Delivers incoming faxes, mail and / or packages to the appropriate person upon receipt and processes outgoing mail daily - Organizes and coordinates meetings, conferences and travel arrangements as needed - Prepare and modify documents including correspondence, reports, drafts, memos and emails - Performs clerical duties such as typing, filing, and proofreading as required - Maintains and retrieves electronic and hard copy documents as needed - Word Processing - Ordering Supplies from Office Depot - Maintains office inventory and places supply orders when needed - Oversees the cleanliness of the office and reports any issues or repairs needed to management - When appropriate, aids in resolving customer concerns and issues and works closely with co-workers to ensure the highest level of customer service and satisfaction is achieved - Promotes effective and efficient utilization of office resources and supplies - Supports staff in assigned project based work We are an equal employment opportunity employer and will consider all qualified candidates without regard to disability or protected veteran status.

Director of Human Resources / HR Consultant — Professional Duties & Responsibilities Oversee the planning, direction, and management of all HR - related activities including staff recruiting, candidate tracking, personnel screening and testing, and hiring processes in accordance with Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employment regulations Support senior management to develop and maintain personnel policy and ensure compliance with all standards, authoring and implementing new policies and procedures as needed along with creating HR procedure manual Serve as lead analyst for compensation reviews, performance and pay - scale benchmarking, market studies, and salary structure decisions, also creating organizational / staff planning charts for all departments and all positions Create and deliver firm - wide staff new - hire orientation, training and development programs, and performance evaluations utilizing a competency - based appraisal system which leads to focused training and development programs based on common and individual areas of performance deficiency Manage all aspects of workers compensation and unemployment claims on behalf of employer, attending hearings and participating actively in all related meetings Hold responsibility for all benefit negotiations, administration, and plan reviews, promoting compliance with and effective execution of IRS / DOL regulations, ERISA, HIPPA, and all audit - related processes Implement and sustain safety programs while performing regular safety - policy trend analyses to identify critical issues, developing corrective action plans to ensure compliance with applicable safety, health, and environmental regulations including OSHA and other applicable laws Consult with management regarding employee - and labor - related issues to resolve conflicts in a professional manner, conducting grievance hearings and negotiation agreements with worker representatives within the provisions of any applicable contract Provide relevant guidance and administration to the development of human resources site on firm intranet, housing online - employment forms, manager resources, job postings, and HR - related forms and documents Develop valuable staff relationships to improve workplace morale as well as maintain positive business relationships with all related brokers and vendors

With that in mind, Texas child support laws are now very much geared to all parties coming into the process as equals, and trying to talk through agreements about child custody, rights of visitation, financial support for the child, and also agreements about how time should be shared between the parties, and also parenting plans to ensure that both sets of parents are singing from the same hymn sheet in terms of exactly HOW they would like their children to be raised.

See also the emphasis on «equal and due treatment» in the Canadian Supreme Court's recent discussion of placing «due weight on Aboriginal perspectives» and ensuring its supporting evidence an «equal footing» in Mitchell v Minister of Natural Revenue [2001] 1 SCR 911, relied upon the State of Victoria in the present appeal as correctly setting out the applicable approach: Written Submissions of the First Respondent (State of Victoria), at 16.

Partner with states and local communities to help ensure equal education opportunity and excellence in early childhood education programs and to ensure that children and their families have access to programs, services and supports that promote health, nutrition, economic independence and stability, and social competencies;