Sentences with phrase «access to public education»

Now that access to public education for all individuals with disabilities is available, the next goal is to assure that students with disabilities receive an education that is reflective of enhanced instructional outcomes.

He helped set up that office in response to the Connecticut State Supreme Court's landmark Sheff v. O'Neill decision, which mandated equal access to public education regardless of town boundaries or race.

So, if we imagine, as the letter writer does, that many of these disabled students were denied access to public education, then the addition of teachers was roughly commensurate with the addition of disabled students.

And we know that Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, and his corporate education reform colleagues, such as Paul Vallas and Steven Adamowski, are doing absolutely everything they can to further alienate vast numbers of public school parents, as well as, Connecticut's teachers, retired teachers and those who support universal access to public education.

States have just begun to provide homeless children the level of access to public education required by federal law, according to a report the Education Department plans to issue this summer.

A 504 Plan is a document designed to provide accommodations and modifications that allow a child with disabilities access to public education.

She's also a spokesperson Alliance for Quality Education, a group that fights for fair and equitable access to public education across New York.

Public television turns its cameras on education this month, airing specials that focus on unequal access to public education and the nationwide movement to make schooling more relevant to careers and jobs.

We can get to the root of the problem by providing fairer access to a public education.»

By using the threat of effectively denying the children of military personnel access to public education, the bill seeks to force the federal government either to increase its impact - aid payments to districts or to establish separate schools, with full federal funding, on the bases.

This letter provides information to SEAs, LEAs, and parents about the requirement to provide all children with equal access to public education at the elementary and secondary level.

If the American dream is to mean anything for children from low - income backgrounds, they need access to a public education that helps them overcome economic and social barriers and achieve at high levels.

«Ready access to public education is a cornerstone of our nation's grassroots democracy.»

That constitutional guarantee means that the state must ensure that Plaintiff Students have equal access to a public education system that will teach them the skills they need to succeed as productive members of modern society.

To keep the momentum from the 2007 TDSB policy, a group in Ontario produced a report in 2008: «Right to Learn: Access to Public Education for Non Status Immigrants».

In 1970 many disabled and mentally handicapped students were denied access to public education.

As the report describes, times when Australia had «full employment policies, universal access to public education, a unique system of wage regulation, progressive income taxes, and a well - targeted social security safety net, meant that we were able to place limits on inequality within an open economy with relatively low taxes and public expenditures, and a flexible labour market.»

The amendment, which Johnson submitted to be included in the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriation Act that has yet to pass, prohibits DOJ from enforcing provisions of the ADA that ensure equal access to public education.

«Access to public education and important educational opportunities is now, for an increasing number of children and young people, on the basis of their parent's ability to pay.

As each day goes by, more and more evidence surfaces that prove Achievement First is failing to provide Connecticut students with the equal access to a public education that is guaranteed under Connecticut law.

In the 1982 case Plyler v. Doe, the Supreme Court ruled that students» access to a public education can not be denied based on their immigration status.

In a 4 - 3 decision, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled the state had an affirmative obligation to provide Connecticut's school children with a substantially equal educational opportunity and that this constitutionally guaranteed right encompasses the access to a public education, which is not substantially and materially impaired by racial and ethnic isolation.

Access to public education for all children and youth under 18 in Ontario is both a right and a requirement under provincial law.