Sentences with phrase «against a student of»

Canadian Universities like UBC, the University of Toronto, McGill, and others have just experienced lively and civil debates that pit students of Hong Kong origins against students of Mainland origins.

Trap shooting is doing so both figuratively and literally as student - athletes are increasingly hitting the range at local shooting clubs to hone their craft and compete against students of rival high schools.

Gifted education programs have long been subject to criticism that their selection criteria, which often rely on IQ testing and other measures of cognitive ability, are biased against students of color and poor children.

Under the Dear Colleague letter, ED has virtually unlimited discretion in deciding, for example, whether «[s] elective enforcement of a facially neutral policy against students of one race is also prohibited intentional discrimination.»

The office investigates also whether schools» student discipline policies discriminate against students of color, and if schools are adhering to Title IX guidance barring discrimination against transgender students.

We're asking parents, students, and other community advocates to join us in the fight to maintain the federal school discipline guidance, which is a critical tool that can help schools and districts reduce the use of practices that push students out of school (e.g. suspensions and expulsions) and prevent them from disciplining in ways that discriminate against students of color.

The «school - to - prison pipeline,» or the overuse of exclusionary discipline against students of color 3.

Citing the recent incident at a South Carolina high school, Laurie asks David about the trends showing disparate disciplinary treatment against students of color and students with disabilities.

Ms. Johnson is associate director of the IDRA EAC - South, leading the center's technical assistance and professional development pertaining to diversity, cultural competency and disproportional disciplinary actions against students of color.

Trustee John Lee Evans, who has defended the district's graduation numbers, characterized scrutiny of the graduation rate as prejudice against students of color.

Registration — refusing to accredit professional programs, in the public interest: Courts in three provinces have moved forward to address the power of law societies to refuse to accredit a Christian law school, based on a public interest concern about the school requiring students to sign a covenant abstaining from sexual intimacy outside of marriage between one man and one woman — a covenant that would effectively discriminate against students of certain sexual orientations.

Not exact matches

Students from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. have organized gun protests and been joined by millions of Americans that have railed against gun violence, assault rifles, and the NRA.

At least 24 of the 34 colleges and universities granted religious exemptions based on their beliefs about gender identity also received waivers allowing them to discriminate against gay and lesbian students and employees, citing faith - based prohibitions against homosexual sex, the Human Rights Campaign said.

«What we want students to know is schools are serious about this, that they have gone out of their way to make sure they have the legal ability to discriminate against LGBT students,» said Sarah Warbelow, the campaign's legal director.

By comparing a student's transcripts against a database of tens of millions of past student records, Brightspace's Degree Compass feature can tell what letter grade he or she will get in any given course with 92 % accuracy — before the first class starts.

The ACLU also contends that schools may not punish students for expressing political views, and plans to defend students of schools take action against them.

The largest U.S. student loan servicer, Navient (navi), cheated borrowers out of billions of dollars, often by deceiving them about repayment options and their legal rights, the U.S. consumer financial watchdog said on Wednesday as it announced a lawsuit against the company.

The article, written by Sabrina Rubin Erdely, gave a detailed account of an alleged 2012 gang rape that a woman identified as «Jackie» said had endured at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house as a first - year student, and accused the university of tolerating a culture that ignored sexual violence against women.

Here Sotomayor plays the mentor card: «I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self - segregation; take support and comfort from your own group as you can, but don't hide within it.»

To guard against potential threats to his power, he maintains a large force of secret police who watch his political opponents, tap many telephones, and even investigate all students applying for admission to a university.

He established himself as a public figure by successfully defending the editors of a student journal, which had supported the strike, against sedition charges.

What's more, a number of unions on college campuses are allying with non-governmental organizations, such as United Students against Sweatshops to hold corporations accountable for enforcing labor standards throughout their global supply chains.

A student organization defending the actions of the protesters that calls itself «The Ad Hoc Committee Against the Militarization of CUNY,» released a press release on the incident.

A lawyer for nearly 25 years, Honest Abe warns law students against yielding to the popular belief that lawyers are dishonest, Slate first noted Monday, linking back to the Library of Congress speech.

North Korea's supreme court sentenced American student Otto Warmbier to 15 years of hard labour for crimes against the state, China's Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday.

The Broward county school system, where Marjory Stoneman Douglas is located, has had a program with the goal of limiting outsized disciplinary measures against minority students since 2013, a year before the Obama DOE's guidelines were issued.

BI: Harvard has agreed to hand over years of confidential applicant records to the DOJ, who will then decide whether they've been discriminating against Asian - American students.

A college student doesn't have to throw wild parties to be at risk of someone filing a lawsuit against them.

Student gun control activist David Hogg attended Saturday's White House Correspondents» Association dinner and campaigned against the NRA as he mingled with members of Congress.

A hearing is scheduled for today in the lawsuit filed against the driver accused of hitting two King High School students.

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About 100 of those students converged on the state Capitol in Tallahassee on Wednesday to demand that lawmakers take action against gun violence.

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Suburban Express, which carries U of I students to school, is accused of discrimination and retaliating against those who criticized its service.

Students around South Florida left classrooms Friday as part of a national protest against gun violence.

«Together we can send the unambiguous message that the women of UBC have supporters everywhere who will stand against sexual violence — that the rape chants that students at the Sauder School were participating in are deplorable and must be properly dealt with as a violation of women's human rights; that repeated sexual attacks on young women on campus are a crisis with which we should all be concerned.

The above suggests that the students are being joined by organized labour in a larger scope of protest against neo-liberal policies in general.

A group of MIT students is fighting back against a subpoena issued by the state of New Jersey related to their Bitcoin mining activities.

One of France's most prestigious universities was forced to shut yesterday after student protesters staged a campus occupation against government plans to make higher education more competitive.

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On the way, he passes a room full of students lined against the wall inside their classroom, in Room 1237, just feet from him.

The Parkland students have been facing many of these issues head - on, meeting with the survivors of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida, and now with the Chicago students, in an effort to build coalitions and expand their fight against gun violence.

Students across South Florida walked out of their classrooms Friday as part of a protest against gun violence.

Detroit school students, represented by the Los Angeles - based public interest firm Public Counsel, filed suit last month against the state of Michigan, claiming a legal right to literacy based on the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

Lawsuits filed against one of the nation's largest student loan servicers by the federal government's consumer watchdog and two states highlight the importance of knowing your options for repaying student loan debt.

A month after the march, students will walk out of classrooms against on April 20, the 19th anniversary of the Columbine school shooting in Colorado.

Thank you, President Donald Trump, for your suggestion that teachers should be trained to carry firearms in order to stop gun violence against our students («The absurdity of arming teachers,» Feb. 25).

Today's attack prompted the student wing of a Pakistani Islamic group Jamaat - e-Islami to protest against the Taliban's violence.

The video features a number of students and alumni speaking out against it.

Domestically and internationally, Ahmadinejad is regarded by not a few as a capricious dictator whose presidency has included serious human rights violations, routine defiance of the United Nations, development of capabilities for nuclear weapons, and massive student protests against his government.