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A mastery exam is supposed to measure knowledge in a uniform and fair manner, and not discriminate against students on the basis of income or whether they have desktops, laptops and computer tablets at home.

«Nevada's voucher program allows private religious schools to use taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate and discriminate against students on the basis of religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, and other grounds,» she added.

They can disregard state law prohibiting discrimination against students on grounds of sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation or marital or parental status.

Glazier also put forth an amendment that would prevent private schools that receive vouchers from discriminating against students on the basis of race and sexual orientation.

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Schools receiving Opportunity Scholarship funds discriminate against students on the basis of religion and sexual identity.

Importantly, the bill did nothing to stop private schools from taking public dollars and discriminating against students on the basis of race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or ability.

In a «Dear Colleague» letter released last year, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Education (ED) issued guidance for schools on avoiding discrimination against students on the basis of race when administering school disciplinary policies, and warned that if minority students are subject to disciplinary actions at a higher rate than other students, schools could be faulted for civil - rights violations.

According to the guidelines schools still «violate Federal law when they evenhandedly [emphasis added] implement facially neutral policies» that were adopted with no intent to discriminate «but nonetheless have an unjustified effect of discriminating against students on the basis of race.»

In January 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Education (ED) jointly released a «Dear Colleague Letter» containing guidance on how schools should avoid discriminating against students on the basis of race when administering disciplinary action.

Extera Public Schools do not discriminate against any student on the basis of ethnicity, gender, national origin, or disability.

Not exact matches

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.

Students who have been vocal about the need for gun control spoke out against DeVos in person and on Twitter.

On Friday, a group called «Student Walkout Against Gun Violence,» which appears to have been launched in response to the Florida shooting, said it is planning a nationwide walkout sometime next week in schools across the country to demand action.

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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.

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.

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 income you take from the plan is not included in income totals the IRS uses to determine how much you pay in taxes on your social security, and the cash value doesn't count against your kids when they apply for federal student aid.

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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The story was that a student came to school on his bicycle, which was actually against school rules.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

If you have variable interest rates on your private student loans, you may consider refinancing and opting for fixed interest rates to hedge against future increases.

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.

A bright young student raised in a tradition of conservative Evangelical pietism, Mouw recalls that his pastors «often viewed the intellectual life against the background of a cosmic spiritual battle in which the human intellect, especially as it aligns itself with the cause of the academy, is inevitably on the wrong side of the struggle.»

Say that a Christian student participates in a debate on religion and they're asked to consider some of the common critiques against the faith.

«The goal for me has always been to shed the light on the appalling and unacceptable discrimination against LGBT students at these private religious institutions throughout California,» said Lara, according to the Times.

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.

DeGioia has weighed in on recent campus political controversies, defending the decision to invite Sebelius - saying «we are a university, committed to the free exchange of ideas» - and defending Fluke against attacks from Limbaugh, which the college president described as «as misogynistic, vitriolic, and a misrepresentation of the position of our student.»

It is understandable that the idealistic emphasis on the efficacy of spiritual motives and forces, ideas, and energies in the philosophy and history of the early nineteenth century led to a reaction which urged students of social life and development to concentrate on the opposite viewpoint according to which spiritual developments have to be regarded as products of material conditions (Feuerbach, Marx, Engels, against Hegel).

Why could they not focus on the graduation of students without feeling the need to be intrusive and over-bearing with their religious views to the point that a legal case could be made against them?

The full exercise of this right requires that trustees and administrators protect teachers and students against pressures from outside in favor of certain methods and conclusions of inquiry, and that support for teaching and research be kept as free as possible from exerting a controlling influence on academic pursuits.

In the spring of 2000 an interesting dichotomy between theory and reality in economics teaching appeared in France when economics students from some of the most prestigious universities, including the Sorbonne, published a petition on the internet urging fellow students to protest against the way economics was being taught.

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

It could say that it is not discriminating against the LGBT Student Alliance; it is only following a consistent policy on advocacy against church teaching.

When I present a new idea, I want students to understand it, to think about it, to wrestle with what impact, if any, it has on their thinking, and to give cogent reasons, for or against, for their reactions.

But to place a higher priority on challenging students» faith than on teaching them how to defend their faith against attack is simply imprudent.

On June 28th, the U.S. Supreme Court — in a bitterly divided 5 — 4 vote — upheld a public university's right to enforce an «all - comers» antidiscrimination policy against a student group affiliated with the Christian Legal Society (CLS).

As early as 1917 he was protesting against a then - current model of students as portmanteaux, to be packed with «inert ideas,» which were then unpacked on occasions of external examinations3 (The contents, on that theory, were the mental images which have passed since Locke as «ideas» in the British empiricist tradition.)

A Supreme Court ruling today against a Christian campus group that barred students who don't share its views on marriage may have settled a legal question, but the debate may rage on.

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.

Talking about strike, some students of Nantes University are on their 2nd week of strike as well to protest against an education reform.

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