Sentences with phrase «civil rights complaints»

Manages and resolves complex employee relations issues such as employee complaints, harassment allegations and civil rights complaints.

BET reports that civil rights complaints have reached an all - time high and the U.S. Department of Education is busy with investigations across the nation.

Our firm handles wage and hour disputes under the Fair Labor Standards Act («FLSA»), discrimination and harassment matters, civil rights complaints, Family and Medical Leave Act issues, wrongful termination complaints, and matters in front of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

At the Federal Highway Administration, Tom led a national team of more than 50 lawyers providing legal and policy counsel to the agency's leadership on a wide range of regulatory and policy issues affecting transportation infrastructure, including environmental review and permitting for transportation projects; compliance with Buy America requirements; investigation of civil rights complaints filed under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act; implementation of federal grant, loan, and loan guarantee programs for transportation projects; and development of major rulemakings and guidance documents implementing recent federal transportation legislation.

Filing civil rights complaints leading to the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal's decision in 2008 against homophobic harassment, which awarded a West - Island gay couple $ 15,000 in damages, and another decision from the Tribunal in 2010, granting the same couple $ 12,000 in damages in another case.

We have successfully prosecuted civil rights claims and defended clients against civil rights complaints, including those alleging First Amendment violations, Due Process and Equal Protection violations, Age and Sex Discrimination claims and other violations of the United States and State Constitutions.

The state's environmental agency agreed last week to tighten permit requirements on hog farms to settle civil rights complaints filed by social justice and environmental groups in 2014 and 2016.

The disability category also seems to be an issue for Southwest, making up over 10 % of the complaints — these are civil rights complaints filed by passengers with disabilities.

Consumers may file air travel consumer or civil rights complaints on the web at http://airconsumer.dot.gov/escomplaint/ConsumerForm.cfm or by voice mail at [phone] or by TTY at [phone].

Monitors external civil rights complaints and the OAs» complaint handling; tracks and reports on DOT's external civil rights complaints.

When the Journey 4 Justice Alliance (which is little more than a union - funded front group) filed a series of specious civil rights complaints against the school systems in Newark, Chicago, and New Orleans back in 2014, I wrote that the actions seemed to herald «a cynical shift in strategy by reform opponents» to paint charters in a racially - divisive light.

In 2013, Mr. Schulz joined an Austin - based law firm, where he defended public schools in due process complaints, Office for Civil Rights complaints, TEA complaints, and appeals to federal court.

This scenario happened in 2007 with Common Ground and Odyssey Community School (due to poor test data) and Achievement First - Hartford in 2013 (due to excessive suspensions / special education / civil rights complaints).

From 2009 through 2016, it handled 76,000 civil rights complaints and issued 34 policy documents to school districts and colleges.

Dept. Critiques ESSA Plans From Arizona, North Dakota, and Vermont blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaig Under new marching orders from Trump admin, the Education Department closed 1,533 civil rights complaints in 7 -LSB-...]

So begins a list of recommendations released Thursday by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, an independent, bipartisan agency created by Congress in 1957 to investigate civil rights complaints.

Members of the group, a patchwork of community organizations called the Journey for Justice Movement, have filed several Title VI civil rights complaints with the Education Department Office of Civil Rights, claiming that school districts that shut schools are hurting minority students.

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has rolled back the regular practice of the education department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of probing further into civil rights complaints for evidence of larger, systemic violations.

The number of civil rights complaints and investigations spiked dramatically during the Obama administration.

Kiarre Harris, whose children were removed from her custody by a Family Court judge, has filed civil rights complaints with both the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Education, alleging that both the school district and Erie County Child Protective Services discriminated against her because she is black.

Kiarre Harris, whose children were removed from her custody by a Family Court judge, has filed civil rights complaints with both the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Education, alleging that bo...

Despite Federal Government's Refusal to Investigate Civil Rights Complaints from Transgender Students, NY Districts Have Independent Duties to Protect These Students from Discrimination and Harassment

«It is appalling to see the federal government refuse to investigate these important civil rights complaints from transgender youth, who are valued members of our schools and communities across New York State.

New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia and New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today vehemently objected to the recent decision by the federal Department of Education to no longer investigate civil rights complaints from transgender students regarding access to bathroom facilities.

A civil rights complaint also was filed with the New York Attorney General's office on behalf of Black Lives Matter - Buffalo by attorney Anjana Malhotra.

On Wed., Jan. 20th, parents of 13 students, along with Public Advocate Letitia «Tish» James, City Council Education Committee Chairperson Daniel Dromm and five legal assistance nonprofits, filed a federal civil rights complaint against Success Academy for systemic practices that violate the rights of children with disabilities.

At 11 a.m., parents hold a press conference on a civil rights complaint against Buffalo school district, CAO Masten Resource Center, 1423 Fillmore Ave., Buffalo.

Similar accusations have been leveled by the parents of 13 current or former special - needs students who on Jan. 20 filed a formal civil rights complaint with the federal Department of Education.

The New York Civil Liberties Union represented the McCarthys in their civil rights complaint.

A plan approved by the Buffalo School Board in response to a civil rights complaint calls for creating more programs to better prepare students for the district's best and most rigorous high schools.

You may also file a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights.

You can also file a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, electronically through the Office for Civil Rights Complaint Portal, available at https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/portal/lobby.jsf, or by mail or phone at:

A school is ineligible to apply if it is under investigation for violating special - education statutes or has failed to resolve a civil rights complaint.

«Choosing a public school means that my daughter would have to take two buses to a school that's not in her neighborhood,» says Newark parent Sharon Smith, whose parent engagement group PULSENJ recently joined a federal civil rights complaint over school closures.

Although an Office of Civil Rights complaint was rumored to be the reason for the shake up, sources say that it was instead an internal investigation prompted by allegations of race - based discipline disparities that led to the changes.

The recent voluntary resolution agreement of a civil rights complaint filed on the behalf of six AF Hartford students by Greater Hartford Legal Aid is proof - positive that AF failed their special needs students.»

We just sued — not sued — we brought a civil rights complaint against the Boston Public Schools just a few months ago, and had a civil rights finding against the Boston Public Schools.

Newark closed a half - dozen schools last year Anderson's first and activists filed a federal civil rights complaint that the closures were destabilizing neighborhoods and targeting minority and especially low - income populations.

You again presume to know my motives for the civil rights complaint.

You have to be against closures now because you signed on to that AFT - backed civil rights complaint.)

You claim the unions had nothing to do with J4J's civil rights complaint, then you admit in an interview with Rethinking Schools that they support your work.

Sheesh, SCHI: A Civil Rights Complaint, Plus the Director of Lakewood Special Ed School Accused of Stealing Million Dollars from the District

Shortly before this story broke a Lakewood resident who wishes to remain anonymous forwarded to me a civil rights complaint filed by Pastor Glenn Wilson of Lakewood on April 18th, 2016 against the Lakewood Board of Education.

Johanna Rodriguez, whose eighth - grade son was included in the civil rights complaint, said her son was suspended and at home for most of last year, while this year she said he was suspended in school most of the time in a room set aside for students who are removed from class because of a behavior issue.

Read PURE's 2010 Office for Civil Rights complaint against CPS's high - stakes testing and retention policy here.

More recently, the advocacy group Parents United for Responsible Education put the issue on the front burner when it filed a federal civil rights complaint against the district's retention policy because of its disparate racial impact.

Similarly, the Consortium's 2004 report, «Ending Social Promotion: The Effects of Retention,» mentions that «the policy was challenged in a civil rights complaint» (p. 10).

DOT investigates complaints from the public alleging violations of Title VI, and follows the process in the DOT External Civil Rights Complaint Processing Manual, Order 1000.18.

In the summer of 2012, several of the same petitioners filed a civil rights complaint with the Environmental Protection Agency, arguing that cap and trade «disparately and adversely affects communities of color.»

The plaintiff filed a civil rights complaint and then brought an action on August 12, 2010.