Sentences with phrase «civil rights issue»

This is a fundamental civil rights issue that affects us all.

It would be those people who have joined together in solidarity, in something that is largely becoming a civil rights issue, and perhaps the most organic act of reconciliation this country has ever seen, would somehow be responsible?

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.

The NAACP ECJ Program was created to provide resources and support community leadership in addressing this human and civil rights issue by advocating for these three objectives:

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.

The NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program was created to educate and mobilize communities to address this human and civil rights issue.»

«Two years ago, when I wanted to give a speech outlining the case for marriage equality in New York, I came right here to this stage at The Cooper Union, because I believe that marriage equality is the civil rights issue of our time.

Hosted by the Data & Society Research Institute, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute, the conference explored emerging civil rights issue connected to the rise in big data and complex algorithms used in our everyday lives.

Featured Speaker, «The Student Loan Crisis: A Civil Rights Issue,» Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, Springfield, MA, April 12, 2018

Gay marriage is a civil rights issue.

Yes, what happened this weekend at RT14 was deplorable but this * isn't * a civil rights issue.

At stake in the civil rights issue are all past gains of our people.

Fast - paced and three - dimensional, the novel does justice to this pivotal civil rights issue, and Picoult again proves herself the queen of heartfelt social statement.

So of course, he wants to make unionism a civil rights issue.

California's former Senate Majority Leader Gloria Romero has called the inadequate performance of public schools the civil rights issue of our time.

This is also not a district versus charter school issue; it is a civil rights issue.

Ravitch drives home the message that real education reform, the kind that serves all children and strengthens our public schools, is the civil rights issue of our time.

«If education is supposed to be the civil rights issue of this era, why does Connecticut's new system for rating schools and districts discriminate against our most vulnerable students?

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.

«This is a civil rights issue, and no one is voluntarily stepping up to hand over their dollars to our students of need,» Baltimore teacher Rebecca Belleville told King this week.

«Like you, I believe education is a civil rights issue,» Wareing wrote, «but consigning other people's kids to dilapidated buildings and / or schools that have not gotten the job done for a decade or more, and / or schools that are so small that they can not sustain quality programming doesn't further the causes of civil rights, equality, and justice.»

It's time candidates in my party take back the civil rights issue of our time, stand up to the teachers» union and support our parents who want more access to school choice,» Chavous said.

Therefore, they suggested speaking of «choice» as the «civil rights issue» of our time.

This is an important civil rights issue.

«Since taking office in Connecticut in 2011, Governor Dannel Malloy (D - CT) has made K — 12 school reform a centerpiece of his agenda, calling education «the civil rights issue of our time.»

I was sure that he didn't believe all that stuff about «the civil rights issue of our time,» but he felt it had to be said to make us all swallow the bitter pill of «education reform.»

It seemed to me, in an era that Michelle Alexander has described as «the New Jim Crow,» that the civil rights issue of our time is still civil rights.

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.»

In his confirmation hearing before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, the then designee for Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, testified: «Quality education... is the civil rights issue of our generation.

We believe this is the greatest civil rights issue of our generation.»

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.

Equal Access to a Quality Education — The Civil Rights Issue of Our Generation Dr. María «Cuca» Robledo Montecel keynote, March 29, 2011 http://www.idra.org/resource-center/equal-access-to-a-quality-education/

More than any other issue, education is the civil rights issue of our generation and it can't wait — because tomorrow won't wait — the world won't wait — and our children won't wait.

This «arts opportunity gap» has grown so wide, noted former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, as to become a «civil rights issue» (Walker, 2012).

To quote Governor Abbott directly, «School choice is a civil rights issue, and Texas must ensure that no child is ever stuck in a failing school.

Evers: I believe that promoting excellence for each and every child is the civil rights issue of our time.

«School choice, in my view, is the civil rights issue of the twenty - first century.

Given that education is the civil rights issue of our time, LEE is attempting to build the capacity of former teachers and education leaders to make educational equity a reality in underserved communities across this great nation.

«I believe the achievement gap is today's civil rights issue,» she said.

«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.

And now the battle is headed toward political center stage: School choice has gained perhaps its most powerful proponent ever in Trump, who has called it «the civil rights issue of our time» and pledged to spend $ 20 billion to push for an expansion of charters and vouchers.

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa also sees education reform as an important civil rights issue for African American and Latino students, and has been a vocal supporter of the Parent Trigger.

And parents fighting to transform chronically underperforming schools is not only an economic issue, but the greatest civil rights issue of our time.»

In raising questions about charters, Brill says, unions are on the wrong side of the civil rights issue of this generation.

It's a civil rights issue, an economic security issue, and a moral issue.»

If education is the civil rights issue of the day and the NAACP is clearly on the side of adults, then we must ask who stands for the children?

School choice is a civil rights issue.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has praised SB 3, saying, «School choice is the civil rights issue of our time.