Sentences with phrase «against students by»

The complainants alleged that Webber Academy discriminated against the Students by not allowing them to perform short prayers on campus in accordance with their religious beliefs.

guidelines and programs for in - service education programs for all district staff members to ensure effective implementation of school policy on school conduct and discipline, including but not limited to, guidelines on promoting a safe and supportive school climate while discouraging, among other things, harassment, bullying and discrimination against students by students and / or school employees; and including safe and supportive school climate concepts in the curriculum and classroom management; and

provisions for responding to acts of harassment, bullying, and / or discrimination against students by employees or students pursuant to clause (b) of this subparagraph which, with respect to such acts against students by students, incorporate a progressive model of student discipline that includes measured, balanced and age - appropriate remedies and procedures that make appropriate use of prevention, education, intervention and discipline, and considers among other things, the nature and severity of the offending student's behavior (s), the developmental age of the student, the previous disciplinary record of the student and other extenuating circumstances, and the impact the student's behaviors had on the individual (s) who was physically injured and / or emotionally harmed.

Acted for a BC school board in a human rights matter brought by parents of a dyslexic child who alleged that the school district had discriminated against the student by failing to provide adequate accommodations

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.

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 Brooklyn - based attorney was in the news two years ago for filing complaints against New York City schools for actions taken against female students who'd alleged sexual attacks by male students.

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.

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

There is 21 - year - old Howard University student Clifton Kinnie, who, in 2014, mobilized teenagers to organize against gun violence and register to vote after 18 - year - old Mike Brown was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.

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.

By: Nadine James 4th May 2018 South Africa and other mineral - rich developing countries with close economic links to China must reassess their trade policies to provide a buffer against fluctuating commodity demand, according to Witwatersrand University School of Mining Engineering postgraduate student Peaceful Mathebula and... →

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.

It seems that students aren't particularly deterred by federal investigations or general stigma against the industry.

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.

According the Fortune, the university has had the same nondiscrimination policy since the early 1990s, and it wasn't until a gay student alleged he was discriminated against by the Beta Upsilon Chi fraternity based on his sexual orientation that questions about the policy arose.

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.

In a seminar this week my students and I read a rant by the Kentucky farmer / poet Wendell Berry against the perpetual adolescence of Huck Finn's America, and our own.

The caution is against replacing the old set of abstractions, brought to the learning situation by the student, with a new set of abstractions chosen on the basis of a pattern apparent only to the person in charge, i.e., the teacher.

The harassment includes social boycott, expulsions, threats and violence against Ahmadi students by extremist students, teachers and principals of the majority sect.

Above all, faculty members, no matter how competent and distinguished, need to guard against the ever present temptation to set themselves up as ultimate arbiters in their special fields, thus stifling any efforts by their students to become truly critical and original.

A rally against church teaching on the divinity of Jesus by the Student Unitarian Action Coalition

At the end, even though he has been fired by the school, we are thrilled as his students find the ability to stand against authority, to think for themselves.

Warning the seminaries against complacency, he points out that «the churches are demanding many new types of workers» who, he seems to suggest, may well be supplied not by the seminaries but by «Bible schools and religious training schools,» the «recent growth» of which means that they «now enroll as many students as all the seminaries».

And on campus many Christians have found that we really need Muslims to help us withstand the assaults of pagans in the department of religion and at the local shopping mall, I've watched conservative evangelical, Bible - thumping Christian students link up with conservative, Qur» an - thumping Muslim students — they are brought together by the realization that in many subtle and disturbing ways the modern university is aligned against belief in and fidelity to any God.

22 - year - old student Sarah Kwablah made the accusations against Gyan in June, but, as confirmed by Adjabeng, the revelations were part of a plot to blackmail the forward, threatening to disclose a sex tape depicting the pair's antics together.

Ling, the father of a son with learning and visual - motor impairment, was troubled by reports that Covenant had its 100 - point victory against a school for students with similar issues.

I'll choose to be proud that one of Wisconsin's finest student athletes has the courage to publicly support causes he cares about, rather than trying to twist his words to suggest he is against the flag or the troops, neither of which were mentioned by him.

For instance, the judge granted summary judgment against the NCAA on its argument that scholarship rules «improve [e] the quality of the collegiate experience for student - athletes, other students, and alumni by maintaining the unique heritage and traditions of college athletics and preserving amateurism as a foundational principle, thereby distinguishing amateur college athletics from professional sports, allowing the former to exist as a distinct form of athletic rivalry and as an essential component of a comprehensive college education.»

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JOLIET — After dozens of students and teachers were sickened by a contaminated school lunch two years ago, the Will County state's attorney made headlines by charging two state education employees with reckless conduct, apparently the first criminal charges against government employees in a food - poisoning case.

The 504 Plan takes its name from Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, a federal law that prohibits schools that receive federal funding from excluding or otherwise discriminating against a student with a «disability» solely on the basis of that disability.6 A «disability» under Section 504 is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act (ADAA) as a «physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more major life activities.»

After besting seven middle school teams at designing a structure made entirely of marshmallows and spaghetti, they topped that achievement by winning First Place against Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering students and alumni.

In previous years EFA has asked local authorities to set in advance the dates by which they planned to make decisions on placements, agree contracts, and make payments for students known to them and to monitor their own delivery against these plans.

The government in a statement on Monday said it has noted the attempt by some members of the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Nigeria Union of Teachers to expose staff and students to danger arising from the ongoing court action against their members.

His comment is against the backdrop of concerns raised by tertiary students who say they will resist moves by government to make them pay for utilities.

Campaigners against Universities UK guidance allowing religious speakers to segregate students by sex were celebrating this evening after the organisation said it would review its position.

There is still four - and - a-half years until the planned date of the next general election, but student anger against the tuition fees hike backed by the Lib Dems - who signed a pledge promising to oppose any increase before the general election - is unlikely to fade away.

Femi Makinde The Governing Council of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State, has set up a joint investigative panel with the senate of the institution to further probe the sex - for - mark allegation levelled against Prof. Richard Akindele by a female post-graduate student of Business Administration, Monica Osagie.

Our reader expresses concerns over accusations of biases made against him by Student Association members on Monday.

NY1 story on Brooklyn students facing off against Chicago students in a coding competition launched by BP Adams.

Citing stances the Senators have taken detrimental to the cause of working people, the flyers highlight: Protecting a failed tax system that favors the privileged at the expense of working people; increasing the tax on health insurance; siding with big corporations and against teachers and students to pass a Charter School Bill - with no real reform; creating a new Tier V pension; and attacking education by supporting an irresponsible property tax cap.

Against a graduate tax: «The coalition will fortunately not be imposing a graduate super-tax on students who go into higher - paying jobs, the option favoured by Vince Cable.

Jonathan Isaby is ConHome's student of rebellions but with him away I should record a small rebellion by Tory MPs against the use of the supplementary vote in the election of city mayors.

Among its claims, the suit alleges that Success Academy discriminates and retaliates against students with disabilities by taking measures designed to influence them to leave the charter network.

DIXON, Ill. (AP)-- Charges were filed against a student who was wounded by a police officer after firing shots in a northern Illinois high school hallway while staff and seniors were meeting for a graduation rehearsal, Illinois State Police announced late Wednesday.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman brought a similar lawsuit against Trump, saying he cheated thousands of New York students by claiming the school was accredited when it was not.

Austin Harig, the 18 - year - old high school student who made an unsuccessful bid for the Buffalo Board of Education against Carl Paladino this year, was arrested by police this week and accused of providing minors with alcohol.