Sentences with phrase «civil rights impact»

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The new administration will also need to grapple with how local police involvement in immigration enforcement impacts the civil rights of Latinos.

The loss of that clause, which liberals had seen as a crowning achievement of the Civil Rights movement, makes it easier for states to adopt voting laws that can have an adverse impact on minority voters.

They know firsthand the impact that progressive leaders like Amazon can do to help fuel LGBT civil rights.

Even his firm stance on non-violent resistance that made such an impact on the civil rights victories that helped seal his legacy, came from time spent studying the approach from Gandhi's success with it in India.

And it crosses over all these lines: local environmental impact, there's the climate argument, there's the First Nations rights argument, there's the stewardship argument, so it can really draw from a whole wide sector of civil society in the way that the faceless catastrophe of climate change can't.

With a background in civil rights advocacy, Amina has a special appreciation for the impact of working for social and economic justice through investing and shareholder engagement.

While I personally think gays should have civil rights and be lawfully recognized as domestic partners, I wonder what impact this will have on traditional marriage.

If the Church is deeply engaged in the civil rights movement, if it is struggling against right - wing misrepresentation of Christianity and of civil life, if it finds itself in a new phase of the Church - State relationship, if it is deeply involved in urbanization and in the passing of previous forms that once marked the so - called Christian epoch, then all these factors must have a profound impact upon theological education and the preparation of men for the ministry.

A vivid case in point is the impact that Bull Conner's attacks on the civil rights marchers, and the Ku Klux Klan's murder of four African - American girls in the bombing of a church — among many other such atrocities — had on the unfolding of events, including the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

BK Reader article on BP Adams co-hosting a town hall led by State Senator Hamilton on the impact of President - elect Trump on Brooklynites» civil rights and human rights.

And the Rev. Al Sharpton doesn't fare well, either, with a whopping 57 percent of poll respondents saying the outspoken civil rights leader and TV personality is having a negative impact on community - police relations.

In a December 30, 2014 letter to County Executive Mike Hein and County Attorney Beatrice Havranek, Civil Rights Bureau Chief Kristen Clarke writes that the policy, which was discontinued after an outcry by county lawmakers, would likely deter people from seeking services and may disproportionately impact African - American and Latino residents.

The Lib Dems argue that an alternative package of measures including the withdrawal of travel rights, more surveillance, unannounced home visits, and the use of intercept evidence to enable more prosecutions to go ahead would be more effective and have less impact on civil liberties.

Dubbed «Do the Right Thing Day» by Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Saturday's event on Stuyvesant Avenue between Quincy Street and Lexington Avenue will celebrate the film's impact on Brooklyn and the civil rights movement, Adams said.

At 6:30 pm on Tuesday, the Rev. Al Sharpton will take part in a discussion with the New School's Maya Wiley on «key issues impacting civil rights, social justice, and criminal justice reform in NYC and nationally.»

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The Ku Klux Klan's failure to defeat the black civil rights moment is well documented, but the group's lesser - known legacy may be its lasting impact on the U.S. political system, according to a paper published in the December issue of the American Sociological Review.

There are so many aspects to Turing's story: his impact on ending the war, how society treats true genius, his isolated childhood and final years, the extreme lack of civil rights for homosexuals of the time, and how his work on «Christopher» led to the development of computers.

With his charismatic and incredibly likable character clear throughout the film, this biographical documentary reveals his true passion is not just singing and acting but fighting injustice and creating awareness for the civil rights movement, on which he had great impact.

Between the juxtaposing narrative threads of Cecile serving in the White House and his son fighting for Civil Rights, the latter is the far more interesting and dramatically impacting.

Should the Supreme Court strike down disparate impact, it would end the most mischievous and destructive policies imposed by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and would also stop pernicious lawsuits (like one just decided in New York) that seek to eliminate basic standards for new teachers.

Few political movements of any era have had the sort of impact — personal, societal, and even global — that the American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s had.

In another timely feature, Shep Melnick gives us an assessment of the October 2014 «Dear Colleague Letter» from the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, which demanded that each school district provide a detailed accounting of resources available to each school in order to avoid allegations of racially disparate impacts on children.

The departments, citing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, gave the school districts «guidance on how to identify, avoid, and remedy discriminatory discipline,» telling them they risked legal action if school disciplinary policies had «a disparate impact, i.e., a disproportionate and unjustified effect on students of a particular race.»

Linda Chavez, former executive director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in Maryland in 1986, has always taken a provocative stance on the impact of civil - rights programs formulated in the 19Civil Rights and Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in Maryland in 1986, has always taken a provocative stance on the impact of civil - rights programs formulated in the 1Rights and Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in Maryland in 1986, has always taken a provocative stance on the impact of civil - rights programs formulated in the 19civil - rights programs formulated in the 1rights programs formulated in the 1960's.

Each of these books attempts to characterize the educational impact of the civil rights movement.

Rather, the two agencies applied the deeply controversial concept — beloved of civil - rights activists — known as «disparate impact.»

The extent to which Uncle Sam should intrude himself into school discipline practices — and the extent to which «disparate impact» should intrude itself into federal civil - rights policies — are hugely important issues, with or without charter schools.

Dean Kathleen McCartney has announced that Civil Rights activist, author, and political adviser James Meredith will receive the Harvard Graduate School of Education Medal for Education Impact, the highest honor given by the school, and speak at the 2013 Convocation ceremony on May 29.

The NAACP's civil - rights complaint is based on what's known nowadays as «disparate - impact analysis,» which is to say that if a seemingly objective and even - handed procedure yields a result that is not equitably distributed by race (or gender, handicapping condition, whatever), it is presumed to be discriminatory on grounds forbidden under sundry civil - rights laws and constitutional provisions.

Most importantly, the guidance reminded schools and districts that, pursuant to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, (and the corresponding disparate impact regulations established in that era), they have an obligation to eliminate unjustifiable policies associated with excessive and disparate discipline.

The polling results were released today to coincide with the national release of Diversity Challenged: Evidence on the Impact of Affirmative Action, a new book by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University.

Ninth graders create scientific experiments to measure the impact of technology waste on the environment; 7th graders explore the Civil Rights movement by examining injustices in their own communities.

This report, co-authored by Safal Partners and Public Impact for the National Charter School Resource Center, examines federal requirements under civil rights laws and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and state laws governing charter school recruitment, retention, enrollment of EL students and their accountability for EL student performance; requirements and current challenges related to EL data reporting; and whether existing laws are adequate to address the needs of this growing population of ELs in charter schools.

I certainly applaud the desegregation that occurred during the years immediately following the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and I quite explicitly say, on p. 75, that «careful studies show that school desegregation has had positive impacts on student learning, especially in the South,» a passage which must have escaped Kahlenberg's attention when he claims I «neglect» to point out a possible connection between desegregation and southern gains.

On May 29, James Meredith, one of the key figures in the Civil Rights Movement, visited the Ed School to accept the Harvard Graduate School of Education Medal for Education Impact, the highest honor given by the school, and speak at the 2013 Convocation ceremony.

The extent to which Uncle Sam should intrude himself into school discipline practices — and the extent to which «disparate impact» should intrude itself into federal civil - rights policies — are hugely important issues.

In the podcast, Melnick dissects the legal justification presented by the Office for Civil Rights for its instructions and considers the likely impact of the «Dear Colleague» letter.

What was the educational impact of the civil rights movement?

Dunn argues that the Office of Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education has been using «disparate impact analysis» to issue profoundly misguided policies on school discipline and school finance.

The Court refused to enforce Department of Justice rules incorporating the very sort of disparate impact analysis employed here by the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.

Because your policy of suspending students who get into fights on school grounds will be said to have had an «adverse impact» on black students, you will face, at minimum, the negative publicity that comes from a civil rights investigation.

NEWARK In a victory for grassroots organizers in Newark, the Newark Public School district has reached a landmark agreement with the U.S. Department of Education following a federal civil rights investigation into the discriminatory impact of school closures on students of color.

This disproportionate racial impact is why there's a long history of civil - rights lawsuits opposing high stakes testing.

«The civil rights bus tour has impacted me both professionally and personally.

This includes restoring rules allowing Office for Civil Rights investigators to look at years of past complaints against districts to determine patterns of discrimination, hiring more investigators to look into patterns of disparate impact, and even requiring states such as Maryland to implement stronger rules against overuse of harsh discipline.

UCLA's Civil Rights Project calculated that 77 % of the decline in state suspensions from 2012 - 2014 were in the disruption / defiance category.13 Reducing suspensions — and the disparate impact of suspensions on black students — has been the subject of national attention and discussion for several years.

Lambda Legal A national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and everyone living with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work.

NEA's «Focus On» publications highlight human and civil rights issues that impact education for five underserved communities: American Indian / Alaska Native; Black; Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender; Hispanic; Women and Girls.

DeVos agreed that the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has a role in helping to ensure that the (yet - unfulfilled) mandate of Brown vs. Board of Education be achieved, and said that if confirmed, she would support OCR in enforcing the various titles of the Civil Rights Act, including investigating and responding to evidence alleging disparate impacts on students.