Sentences with phrase «civil rights language»

And using «civil rights language.»

I do not think it's appropriate to use civil rights language to describe what happened.

In his book, Bolick describes how he helped orchestrate the mainstream media's first use of civil rights language in defense of school choice while discrediting a voucher opponent as «blocking the schoolhouse door to minority children.»

Not exact matches

An Arab - American civil rights organization also asked director Clint Eastwood and actor Bradley Cooper to denounce hateful language directed at U.S. Arabs and Muslims after the release of the film.

The companies join gay - rights and human rights groups as well as the American Civil Liberties Union in attacking the law over its broad language, which could be used by business owners to use religious objections to deny same - sex couples wedding.

The sexual liberation movement naturally takes up the language of civil rights, and claims the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr..

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Cynical political motives masked in the language of civil rights — you got ta love politics...

How cynical to use the language of the civil rights movement!

In her speech, she compared the ordinary people who campaigned for the Welsh language at times when it had not been fashionable to do so as civil rights activists «in the mould of Mrs Rosa Parks».

Dukes said Moskowitz had «hijacked the language of civil rights» when she said at a protest less than a mile away that the denial of an additional co-location at the school was about «educational justice.»

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says his Election Day hotline, 800-771-7755, will help people facing language issues, polling place barriers and other potential civil rights problems.

WAKEFIELD — Preachers and politicians summoned Martin Luther King Jr.'s soaring religious language and his moving political rhetoric at a packed church service in Wakefield Monday morning, 83 years after the civil rights leader was born.

I think it is incredibly important for all New Yorkers, but particularly those in public life, to make very clear that in this city, the most diverse city in the world, the city where the LGBT civil rights movement was born, that that type of language can not be tolerated... I think that all of us need to recommit to making sure that whenever we hear language of any type that is demeaning, derogatory, racist, sexist, homophobic, anything of that nature that we speak out against it.»

The politics of race and civil rights during the Reagan era are certainly very important to Kansas» cinematic language as their themes provide instructive commentary in several noteworthy scenes.

Some civil rights organizations say lumping together different types of students, such as English - language learners and students in special education, makes it much tougher to see how individual groups are progressing relative to other groups of students and the student population as a whole.

For instance, if the project is a language arts research - based initiative involving readings about Civil Rights leaders.

Ruling in Grove City College v. Bell last year, the Court held that the civil - rights statute — whose language is similar to laws barring discrimination on the basis of race, handicap, and age — applies only to programs and activities that receive federal aid, and not to the entire institution.

The priorities and language of reformers — achievement gaps, no - excuses schools, social justice, and the «civil rights issue of our generation «-- betrays a focus on fixing schools attended by urban, low - income families of color.

Quoting historian James T. Patterson on the growth of «rights consciousness,» Davies notes that those constituencies often defended ESEA and demanded its expansion with the language and logic of the civil rights movement.

Nobody who wrote or supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964 thought that the term «minority» included so - called language minorities.

But supporters» fondness for using the language of civil rights can not obscure a broader agenda to defund and, eventually, destroy public education.

A lawyer for the Education Department's office for civil rights in San Francisco recently decided to help the University of California rewrite its course catalog, with the aim of deleting allegedly sexist language.

A focus on students» civil rights and cultural integrity is, in some cases, giving way to concern that some non-native English speakers are acquiring insufficient mastery of the English language.

The study was required by the department's office for civil rights in return for dropping a complaint against the district's program for language - minority students.

At that point, language - minority speakers and their advocates were arguing for bilingual education as a civil right.

A story and chart in the May 14, 2008, issue of Education Week about states that have curtailed bilingual education should have said that trends in student achievement identified by Daniel J. Losen of the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles, were based on test scores in reading of English - language learners in 4th grade, not 4th and 8th grades.

This was just the opening round of what is likely to be a long series of acrimonious debates over policy at the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, on topics including sexual harassment, affirmative action, instruction of English language learners and school discipline — even on who might head the agency.

This practice, diametrically opposed to that in Singapore, which outperforms the United States in reading in English in spite of the fact that nearly everyone in that city - state speaks a different language at home, has no chance of narrowing the gap in academic literacy with native English speakers; instead it will exacerbate it, to be followed by more civil rights pressure on our universities to lower their academic standards still further in an attempt to achieve equal outcomes, in a vicious cycle that will continue the degradation of America's civil and academic life.

It also calls for more money for English language acquisition programs, civil rights enforcement, and special education services.

Past letters have focused on sexual harassment, programs for English language learners, and school discipline (see «Civil Rights Enforcement Gone Haywire,» features, Fall 2014).

In its Dear Colleague letter, ED and DOJ refer to Title IV and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act without quoting their language or discussing their scope.

Privatization advocates and their funders have appropriated the language of civil rights and use the dissatisfaction of underserved communities to promote the marketization of public education, an agenda that promises to leave many students of color behind.

For example, in Kajoshaj v. New York City Department of Education (2013), the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a civil rights suit of a Muslim student of Albanian descent who was retained for a second year in the fifth grade based on deficient performance on the statewide language arts test.

Using the kind of language more readily associated with past opponents of black civil rights, Ms. Dukes said that critics of the lawsuit «can march and have rallies all day long....

He frames that argument in language from the Civil Rights Movement, which really?

A press release passed out by StudentsFirstNY before the forum used some of the same language, calling the Common Core a «lifeline» and a «critical civil rights issue» for «communities with failing schools.»

He issued a statement Tuesday blasting the changes, saying the new platform language «stands in stark contrast to the positions of a broad coalition of civil rights groups.»

Charter school supporters say they are providing opportunities for students in areas with poor traditional public schools to have a better alternative to get an education, and some have even framed it in language of civil rights.

The FEAs have taken many forms, including: sheltered instruction observation protocol (SIOP) implementation in Texas; community - based equity assessment in Texas; IDRA's Focusing on Language and Academic Instructional Renewal (FLAIR) program implementation in reading in Louisiana; gender equity also in Louisiana; implementation of a multicultural framework in staff development to support student success in New Mexico; parent leadership in New Mexico; unitary status planning in Arkansas; English as a second language (ESL) classroom strategies in Arkansas; service learning in Oklahoma; and meeting civil rights requirements under the law in Oklahoma.

A widely circulated report from the civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Education found that in 2009 - 10 students of color, students with disabilities and English language learners were suspended and expelled at higher rates than their white peers.

Durham Public Schools eventually entered into a voluntary resolution agreement with the United States Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights outlining a plan of action to create a school environment that nurtured every child, regardless of English language ability.

Specifically, TransACT ® Parent Notices provides standard and customizable communications in all languages, as well as guidance on usage to all staff in a state or district to reduce cost and enable ESSA, Civil Rights Act and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act compliance.

The Civil Rights Movement was about inclusivity, while those who appropriate its language to buttress corporate education reform do so largely in support of programs that promote exclusivity at the public's expense.

In addition to the standard dynamics of running a large organization, administrators have the responsibility of communicating across diverse languages to promote student engagement and retention, all while remaining compliant with civil rights and federal education laws.

The leaders of this effort, including US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, are fond of appropriating the language of the civil rights movement to justify their anti-union, anti-teacher, pro-testing privatization agenda.

Since 2014, she has worked as an attorney with the Federal Coordination and Compliance Section, where she coordinates with federal agencies to ensure consistent enforcement of civil rights statutes and Executive Orders prohibiting discrimination in federally conducted and assisted programs and activities and participates in investigations and lawsuits related to the failure to provide language access services.

Civil rights activist Jonathan Corbett notes the ambiguity of the term «offensive language,» as that definition varies from person to person.

While studying painting and printmaking at Yale University, Tomashi Jackson noticed that the language Josef Albers used to describe color perception phenomenon, in his 1963 instructional text Interaction of Color, mirrored the language of racialized segregation found in the transcripts of education policy and civil rights court cases fought by Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF).

At a time during the Civil Rights movement when African American artists were expected by many to create figurative work explicitly addressing racial subject matter, Gilliam persisted in pursuing the development of a new formal language that celebrated the cultivation and expression of the individual voice and the power of non-objective art to transcend cultural and political boundaries.