Sentences with phrase «because equal educational opportunity»
It's because equal educational opportunity is common sense and because it's the right thing to do.
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A major one went live late last week, and my NWLC colleagues and I have been busy promoting it since: check out the new Faces of Title IX, which tells nine stories of women and girls whose lives have been changed because of the law that guarantees equal access to educational opportunities.
It could find that the equal protection clause prohibits wide within - state disparities in educational opportunity that disadvantage some students because they live in a property - poor district, as Justice Thurgood Marshall argued in his Rodriguez dissent.
«Right now because we believe in the myth of average, we believe that opportunity means providing equal access to standardized educational experiences,» he says.
Unlike the Committee of Ten model, in which all students followed similar college preparatory programs, in the Cardinal Principles model equal educational opportunity was achieved because all graduates received the same ultimate credential, a high - school diploma, despite having followed very different education programs and having met very different standards in the process.
In Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U. S. 483 (1954)(Brown I), we held that segregation deprived black children of equal educational opportunities regardless of whether school facilities and other tangible factors were equal, because government classification and separation on grounds of race themselves denoted inferiority.
Eidmann also said in the ruling Hernandez «recognized that students at Jefferson are being deprived of their equal educational opportunities that they are constitutionally entitled to because of the amount of learning time they have lost and are continuing to lose.»
The Court decided that these students «were not receiving equal educational opportunity because they did not understand the language of instruction and the schools were not doing anything to assist them.»