Sentences with phrase «lgbt students»

Tommy Arnold gives LGBT students at the University of Louisville a sense of home when their families turn their back.

One thousand seventy - six adolescents (Female, n = 648; Male, n = 428) attending two high schools that differed in the degree to which they implemented practices to increase the safety and well - being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT students) responded to a questionnaire regarding their attitudes and beliefs about homosexuality and their judgments regarding excluding and teasing lesbian, gay, and gender non-conforming peers.

Participate in the largest network of K - 12 educators working to create safe, supportive school environments for all LGBT students.

Some IT employers have held events for LGBT students.

The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia sidestepped the conflicting rights between LGBT students and religious freedoms of Evangelical Christians, and focused instead on the legislative authority of the Society under the Legal Profession Act to require law schools to change its policies, following their 10 — 9 vote against accreditation.

Two of them were: (1) LGBT students, «should not have to ride in the back of the bus»; and, (2) freedom of religion is not superior to other rights and freedoms.

I also wonder about this statement: «the most intelligent and ambitious law students, who by sheer numbers will be equity - seeking groups like women, visible minorities, and LGBT students... «Since women are now a majority in Canadian law schools (I believe), I suppose you have the numbers here for them.

And perhaps this should be their biggest concern, because the most intelligent and ambitious law students, who by sheer numbers will be equity - seeking groups like women, visible minorities, and LGBT students, simply won't see big law as the most intelligent option.

In Nova Scotia benchers voted 10 - 9 to make accreditation conditional on TWU withdrawing the community covenant which precludes LGBT students from attending.

By bringing the discussion back to LGBT students at Trinity Western, Weaver and other intervenors revealed the stark consequences of the community covenant's sanctioned homophobia.

But Weaver laid out the numerous reasons why LGBT students may end up at Canada's largest Christian university.

TWU takes the position that its law school would «not be for everyone», and suggested before the Supreme Court that LGBT students wouldn't not be interested in attending the school.

The assumption that LGBT students wouldn't want to attend Trinity Western's law school was implicit in many of the questions posed by the Supreme Court justices on the first day of the trial.

In this Canada Trinity Western can lawfully discriminate against LGBT students because it operates in British Columbia, where under s. 41 of the Human Rights Code, an educational institution that promotes the interests and welfare of a common religion does not discriminate just because it grants «a preference to members of the identifiable group or class of persons».

Lea Staples from the OUTlaw society at Dalhousie Schulich School of Law spoke passionately about how the TWU law school would, «create more law school seats for heterosexuals than LGBT students.»

approval of the [Trinity Western] law school would not result in any fewer choices for LGBT students than they have currently.

LGBT students in public schools are more often victims of harassment based on their gender and sexual identities and are also less likely to have access to LGBT resources than their counterparts in private schools (religious or otherwise).

Second, parents interpreted the highly - educated demographic of college professors and graduate students to be more accepting of LGBT students.

On what basis do families with LGBT students identify desirable schools?

Though these resources were not explicitly imagined as affecting school climate, they were seen as desirable to families with LGBT students — perhaps in the hope that if schools were not able to provide a safe space for students, there would be support in other places for them.

The impact of this paper, then, is to open the door for future research on families with LGBT students and choosing schools to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the school choice process.

When giving or seeking advice for how to ensure safe educational environments for LGBT students, families often turned to the resources, reputation and visibility of certain schools and districts in particular.

The acceptance of LGBT community leaders gave posters confidence that LGBT students will also be accepted, and perhaps even nurtured, at their schools.

This paper, then, aims to unpack the ways in which families with LGBT students understand school choice.

Meanwhile, LGBT students on the message board showed their skepticism that small schools could be supportive because they didn't allow for diversity (which they understood as fragmentation of the student body by interest or background).

Safe and affirming environments have been shown to affect educational outcomes: LGBT students show lower academic achievement than their counterparts as a result of missing school to avoid harassment, being less likely to pursue higher education, and reporting higher levels of depression (Nieto 1992; GLSEN 2013).

One of the most pressing challenges faced by LGBT students is finding a school that is supportive and affirming of their gender and sexual identities.

More taxpayer funding for voucher schools that openly discriminate against LGBT students and parents

Through real - life vignettes in his recent book, Dignity for All: Safeguarding LGBT Students, DeWitt discusses the needs of LGBT students and provides specific examples of how school leaders and teachers can help create an inclusive environment that will be beneficial for all students, regardless of their sexual orientation.

Private schools that accept taxpayer - funded vouchers often deny admission to LGBT students and students with LGBT parents.

For example, a Century Foundation investigation of North Carolina voucher schools found that many of them explicitly bar access to students from families who are not of the same faith tradition as the school, as well as LGBT students.

The showcase of ideas for education reform are diverse and awesome: Embrace Failure, Abandon the Clock, Bye Bye Homework, Understand LGBT Students by Walking in Their Shoes, Give Students Salad Bars, Use Kiosks to Teach Street Kids, Expand Augmented Reality, Offer Comedy Classes — to mention some...

The Washington Post: GOP Lawmakers Refuse to Protect LGBT Students and Those with Disabilities in School Voucher Bill

I have seen it time and time again: When education professionals learn about how discrimination and violence hurt their LGBT students, they want to know what they can do.

An increasing number of reports show that LGBT students, racial minorities, and disabled students are more frequently expelled and suspended than other students, which leads to the dreaded «school - to - prison pipeline.»

OCR intervened a number of times in support of cases against school districts that have failed to protect LGBT students from bullying, harassment, and discrimination.

WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos refused to say Wednesday whether she would block private schools that discriminate against LGBT students from receiving federal dollars, explaining that she believes states should have the flexibility to design voucher programs and that parents should be able to choose schools that best fit their children's needs.

Betsy DeVos has ordered the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) to rescind rules clarifying the civil rights of LGBT students, students with disabilities and students of color.

Betsy DeVos, although questioned directly about the civil rights of LGBT students, gave no statement in direct support of LGBT students.

Murray and several other Democratic senators spent time arguing for the passage of Sen. Al Franken's (D-MN) amendment, which would make it easier to discourage bullying of LGBT students in schools, but it did not pass.

The school says in its admissions brochure that it reserves the right to deny admission to LGBT students because their lifestyle is prohibited by the Bible.

But at a congressional hearing, Senate Democrats cited it as an example of a school that discriminates against LGBT students.

Through our Public Policy office in DC, we work with federal policymakers and agencies like the Department of Education to create laws and policies that make schools more affirming for LGBT students and safer for all.

Learn how the Safe Schools Improvement Act requires schools to enact anti-bullying policies that protect all students, including LGBT students, from bullying.

Our 2013 National School Climate Survey discovered that more LGBT students reported having an anti-bullying policy at their school than all prior survey years, including a modest increase in comprehensive and enumerated policies.

Seventy - four percent of LGBT students were verbally harassed in the past year because of their sexual orientation and 55 percent because of their gender expression.

The new language goes into more detail, calling specifically for changes in tough disciplinary policies at schools that disproportionately affect blacks, Latinos, students with disabilities and LGBT students.

Whatever the outcome of his proposal to protect LGBT students, it's clear that after spending 37 years making people laugh, Franken takes his new role seriously and is trying to craft «good enough» and «smart enough» federal policy on behalf of kids.

Lawmakers seek massive expansion of voucher scheme that discriminates against LGBT students

The bill also fails to provide protections for LGBT students, even though an earlier version did.