Sentences with phrase «as civil rights»

Another alarming trend is that students of color or those with disabilities are disproportionately subjected to punitive discipline practices, 2, 8 which the U.S. Department of Education has recognized as a civil rights violation.

We examine access to child - care assistance as a civil rights issue and challenge state administrators to ensure they are serving families in a way that addresses racial disparities.

Serve as Civil Rights Compliance Coordinator for organization, responsible for all non discrimination policies and resolution of breaches of said policies within the organization.

However, the adoption of this equipment and failure to establish critical policies regarding its use presents substantial risks to privacy, as well as civil rights.

Sean has experience with legal issues involving government entities, such as civil rights actions, municipal tort claims and tax appeals.

Beyond that, these restrictive procedural developments work against the effectiveness of private litigation to enforce various public policies involving such matters as civil rights, antitrust, employment discrimination, and securities regulation.

As the Civil Rights Commission reported «the power of local government has sometimes been actively exerted to prevent equal opportunity in housing rather than to foster it.»

We also have lawyers who focus on criminal defense as well as civil rights issues such as gender and racial discrimination, enabling us to meet the needs of the largest number of people possible.

In our municipal law and government practice at BHPK, we represent government entities, officials and public employees in matters such as civil rights claims, land use issues, employment law, alleged ethics violations, and personal injury.

J. Jude Basile, with offices in San Luis Obispo and San Diego, specializes in cases of personal injury, accident, product defect, insurance, elder abuse as well as civil rights discrimination.

It is a petty squabble, masquerading as a civil rights matter, that has no place in federal court or any other court.

Sam Glover: As a civil rights lawyer I imagine you have a much clearer window into some of the ways that access to justice is harder for people with disabilities.

In December 2010, Attorney General Eric Holder called King a father of the environmental justice movement and urged everyone to think about the environment as a civil rights issue — because minority and low income populations have the same right to be free of health hazards posed by unsustainable practices as everyone else.

Exploring art's relationship to the concerns of African - American, Latinx, U.S., and global artistic communities, the artists» sources are as varied as the civil rights movement, recent events, and speculative fiction, a literary genre with futuristic or otherworldly elements and settings.

As civil rights leaders prepared...

As civil rights leaders prepared for the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Bearden gathered with fellow black artists in New York to discuss their role in the movement.

Deeply involved in the legacy of Post-War American art, «Glenn Ligon» highlights the cultural and social histories of the time, such as the civil rights movement and features many major figures such as Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Chris Ofili.

Much of his work relates to abstract cxpressionism and minimalist painting, remixing formal characteristics to highlight the cultural and social histories of the time, such as the civil rights movement.

Such formalist aspirations existed in the same moment and the same country as the civil rights movement, and Edwards, who had become increasingly active in the fight for equality, immediately understood the limits of an art devoid of content.

Whitten was born in 1939 in Alabama and came of age as the Civil Rights Movement directly challenged Jim Crow laws and broader white supremacy in the United States.

Born in Bessemer, Ala., he sought to find his artistic voice as the Civil Rights Movement was unfolding.

Often referencing American history, his work explores the varying relationships between culture and politics, engaging subjects as diverse as the civil rights movement, southern rock music, and modernism.

Engaging subjects as diverse as the civil rights movement, southern rock music, and modernism, Durant's work is thought - provoking, focusing our attention on the challenges facing contemporary society.

Having engaged subjects as diverse as the civil rights movement, southern rock music and modernist architecture, my work reproduces familiar visual signs, arranging them into new conceptually layered pieces.

She photographs what she cares about, whether that be major events of the 20th century such as Civil Rights protests and the after - effects of the Holocaust, or the everyday life of her beloved New York City.

Andrade carried forth a similar progressive stance in her political causes she supported, such as the Civil Rights Movement, Women, and Gay Liberation.

Much of his work relates to abstract expressionism and minimalist painting, remixing formal characteristics to highlight the cultural and social histories of the time, such as the civil rights movement.

He draws inspiration from American history and engages subjects as diverse as the civil rights movement, southern rock music, and modernism.

As civil rights allegories go, it's a little on the nose.

Anne also works part - time as a Civil Rights / Equal Employment Opportunity Consultant with the Federal Government.

What comparisons can be made between the animal activism movement and other social movements, such as civil rights and environmental movements?

Tom Hayden, 76, best known as a civil rights activist and opponent of the Vietnam War, but also author of one of the most influential and controversial animal care and control laws ever, as an 18 - year member of the California state assembly and senate, died on October 23, 2016 in Santa Monica, California.

First, Congress, by passing Title VII as well as the Civil Rights Act of 1866, has made clear its hostility to racial discrimination in employment.

So were events such as civil rights movement, the Kennedy presidency and the American college experience.

A lively biography of the young black playwright who achieved success and recognition for her contribution to the arts and her hard work as a civil rights activist.

Mr. Gomez serves as a Civil Rights Specialist for the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) in its Lakewood, Colorado, Resource Center, where he performs work in various civil rights areas, but his main focus is disability law, including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

Prior to working in Washington, D.C., Ms. Proll spent nearly ten years in practice as a civil rights lawyer in Birmingham, Alabama.

Brown v. Board was about school choice as a civil rights issue.

Now we have a president who «love [s] the poorly educated,» who makes up his own «facts,» who's never been accountable to anyone and intends to keep it that way, who blathers about «choice» as a civil rights issue — as have the two presidents before him; only he, with DeVos, the least qualified Secretary of Education this country's ever had, will do what none has done before, what most voters don't approve, legalize vouchers and route public funding into religious schools, thereby undermining another foundation of our democracy, the separation of church and state.

A billionaire snatch and grab passed off as a push for racial equality, the destruction of public education... passed off as a civil rights issue.

ALEC initially pitched vouchers as a civil rights ticket for poor and minority children, and for foster children or special needs children.

We believe that strong implementation of ESSA's Title I provisions at the state, district, and school levels is essential for the new legislation to fulfill its moral obligations as a civil rights law.

Yet, as the Civil Rights Project writes, Connecticut state officials have refused to do anything to stem the tide of charter school segregation.

While it appears to be implied in the research and work of the authors cited, it is clear to this writer that the goal of equity must be specifically stated — not merely implied — and it must be fore - front in any work that seriously embraces «quality education as the civil rights issue of our generation.»

Prior to graduate school, she worked as a social worker with children in foster care and as a civil rights advocate.

Funded in part by the U.S. Department of Education, the IDRA EAC - South technical assistance in the U.S. South promulgates family engagement as a civil rights issue because families are the most logical advocates and supporters of all children's rights to an accessible, excellent, equitable and welcoming public school.

The new systems, as civil rights - based reformers and others have warned, make it harder for everyone in education to know how well children are being taught.

As civil rights groups accuse the educational system of racial bias, some observers argue that implementation of less - punitive measures of discipline may make schools more unsafe.

«They're the ones that have been able to define it as a civil rights issue, or as an issue to get poor kids better education,» said former Connecticut state legislator Jonathan Pelto, who's consulted for unions.

For the first time, he met blacks in leadership positions and was mentored by the longtime director of the Milwaukee area's anti-poverty commission, Donald Sykes, as well as civil rights champion Howard Fuller and others.