Sentences with phrase «civil rights protections»

It was for that reason, Markison says, that the government had to step in and add further civil rights protections for Americans seeking housing.

The legal war over the issue — North Carolina and the U.S. government have deployed dueling lawsuits over whether the state's law violates civil rights protections — is far from being settled.

The city of San Francisco sued Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday, claiming that his decision to rescind «guidance documents» from prior administrations violated civil rights protections.

The word disability for me is associated with civil rights because of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and other civil rights protections that use the word disability.

Authorities have been wary of prosecuting members of Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - Day Saints out of fear the 19th century anti-polygamy law ran afoul of more recent civil rights protections and would not hold up in court.

* A column in Education Next made the case that DeVos isn't «rolling back» civil rights protections as much as she is pulling them back from Duncan / King excesses, raising the important question of whether reporters should be comparing DeVos's policies to her immediate predecessors or to broader historical norms.

Despite how far our country has come in passing civil rights protections, for LGBTIQ youth, intense verbal and physical harassment in school is all too common...

«We are moving forward to require that charter schools receive the same level of oversight, civil rights protections and provide the same level of transparency, and we require the same of traditional public schools,» NAACP Chairman Roslyn M. Brock said in the statement announcing the resolution.

While ESSA maintains many civil rights protections for ELs, it dramatically decreases the federal government's ability to shape state education systems» approaches to EL data and accountability.

Parents often choose a voucher regardless of the availability of civil rights protections due to the urgency of their child needing to change schools.

David Hinojosa, J.D., director of the federally - funded IDRA South Central Collaborative for Equity, gives an overview of the civil rights protections that are in place, the negative impact of many school discipline practices and points to resources available to schools and teachers.

It would turn IDEA into a voucher, reduce Impact Aid, and expand the failing DC voucher program, all the while, stripping vital civil rights protections and basic accountability standards.

Today, in an op - ed published by the Washington Post and Chicago Tribune, former U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and former Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Catherine Lhamon criticized the Trump administration's decision to rescind guidance clarifying civil rights protections for transgender students — including directives allowing students to use school -LSB-... continue]

This is exactly what has civil rights groups worried, that the administration will say it's not the feds» job to get involved in ensuring civil rights protections.

By ensuring federal civil rights protections, offering alternatives to exclusionary discipline and providing useful information to school resource officers, we can keep America's young people safe and on the right path.»

As reported in several news outlets, we understand that this meeting was part of a broader review of 2014's «Dear colleague» letter and other civil rights protections.

Reston, VA — The National Association of Secondary School Principals issued the following statement on the Trump administration's rescinding of the Guidance Related to Civil Rights Protections for Transgender Students: «It is disheartening that the Trump administration's first education action is designed to make students less safe.

The release notes that the regulations «uphold ESSA's critical civil rights protections and enhance equity for historically underserved students by including all students and each subgroup in...

Dept. and obtain «freedom from the current requirements placed on categorical grant programs» — which may well include civil rights protections and such.

You can easily imagine Bannon working hand in hand with an incoming Secretary of Education to weaken the civil rights protections that are still left in the weak Every Student Succeeds Act.

While public charter schools with strong accountability systems can provide excellent opportunities for children, this voucher plan could leave many students vulnerable to discriminatory practices, remove critical civil rights protections, and drain funding from public schools.

It's likely that the tax credit would come with very few strings attached — perhaps a few basic safety, financial, and civil rights protections may be all state programs would have to demonstrate in order to be eligible.

According to the Empire State Pride Agenda, «GENDA would extend basic civil rights protections to all New Yorkers based on their gender identity and expression.»

«Hosting Speaker Boehner provides an opportunity to discuss with one of the most important leaders in our country issues like expanding economic opportunities both in Indian County and Central New York, investing in public priorities and improving education and civil rights protections,» Barkin said without offering specific details.

«This community has come a long way,» Crowley said of Woodside, and he called for the development of more «empathy» for transgender people as well as more civil rights protections «at the state and federal level.»

Senate President Pro Tempore David Long says if lawmakers want to take another shot next session at adding civil rights protections for the LGBT community into state law, they should start in the House.

The press conference, organized by the Empire State Pride Agenda, and featuring several out gay members of the City Council as well as City Comptroller Scott Stringer, highlighted what have become familiar benchmarks in the long - stalled effort to win statewide civil rights protections for transgender and other gender - nonconforming New Yorkers.

But, now, with the State Legislature in the final few days of its 2013 regular session, the Empire State Pride Agenda, the advocacy and lobby group leading the push for civil rights protections for the transgender community, says that there is «clear momentum» toward enactment of the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act.

The drive for the bill has won editorial support from newspapers across the state, and advocates have also enjoyed assists from top law enforcement officials — including James Sheppard, the chief of police in Rochester, and Steven Krokoff, his counterpart in Albany — who aggressively knocked down criticism from opponents of transgender civil rights protections that such laws create public safety problems in locations such as bathrooms and locker rooms.

Cuomo felt the need to make the change as the Trump administration «rolls back critical civil rights protections.»

How will you use your office to affirm or strengthen, rather than weaken, civil rights protections for persons with disabilities?

The federal government's announcement earlier this month is just the latest action to further diminish civil rights protections for transgender students and follows the February 2017 decision by President Trump and the federal Departments of Education and Justice to rescind guidance that clarified federal legal protections for transgender students.

In his statement released Sunday Cuomo said his moves are in response to Trump administrations actions that he says have rolled back civil rights protections, including those for members of the LGBTQ community.

Outside the church walls, Christians need to press government for civil rights protections, and to form relationships with Muslims, according to the report.

No Way» to pressure Amazon to avoid all states that can not offer statewide LGBT civil rights protections.

The administration's directive enraged conservatives who say federal civil rights protections pertains to a person's gender assigned at birth, not someone's changing gender identity.

Living in a pluralistic society that also grants freedom and civil rights protection to those with whom one disagrees is not the same as religious persecution.

Often it is necessary to have civil rights protection enforced from higher levels to prevent this.

Not exact matches

Its six lawyers will represent plaintiffs in civil rights, discrimination, public safety and product safety, consumer protection, healthcare and medical liability cases, the firm said in a statement.

The suits by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Human Rights Campaign, filed in federal courts in Baltimore and Seattle, claim Trump's plan violates the Equal Protection clause of the Constitution.

With the help of the Transgender Law Center and the civil rights law firm Relman, Dane & Colfax, Whitaker sued his school district, arguing that it was violating his rights under Title IX and the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.

They fear stronger resistance to their push for civil - rights protections, including broader access to public restrooms, and wonder if their newly won right to serve openly in the military is in jeopardy.

«Visa programs for foreign workers... should be administered in a manner that protects the civil rights of American workers and current lawful residents, and that prioritizes the protection of American workers — our forgotten working people — and the jobs they hold.»

Although enforcement of the Equal Pay Act and other civil rights laws has helped to narrow the gender pay gap, these actions only cover segments of the American working population, and many important protections are not yet codified in law.

October 11, 2017 — As the debate over investor protections was heating up with the start of the fourth round of NAFTA talks in Washington, D.C., US, Mexican and Canadian civil society organizations delivered over 400,000 petitions to Capitol Hill demanding that NAFTA's expansive corporate rights and protections and Investor - State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) be eliminated during -LSB-...]

October 11, 2017 — As the debate over investor protections was heating up with the start of the fourth round of NAFTA talks in Washington, D.C., US, Mexican and Canadian civil society organizations delivered over 400,000 petitions to Capitol Hill demanding that NAFTA's expansive corporate rights and protections and Investor - State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) be eliminated during renegotiations.

In addition to civil rights for people of color, women and LGBT, there has been an expansion of religious liberty for minority sects, enforcement of viewpoint neutrality with respect to access to various public and non-public forums (e.g. religious student groups must be granted equal access to school facilities as their secular counterparts, etc) greater protections against age and disability discrimination, and recognition of habeas corpus rights even for enemy combatants.

If abortion and related life issues are in fact the great civil - rights issues of our time» in that they test whether the state may arbitrarily deny the protection of the law to certain members of the human community» then Griswold eventually led to a situation in which the Democratic and Republican positions on civil rights flipped, with members of today's Democratic party playing the role that its Southern intransigents played during the glory days of the American civil - rights movement.

Just like the Christians who have no remorse for blocking the civil rights of gay people that brings harm to their families, especially during emergencies when they are denied being with their loved ones during death in a hospital and protection for their children.

I have no doubt that many of the people who opposed abolition, interracial marriage, protection of indigenous people, black civil rights, women's suffrage, etc. believed wholeheartedly that God was on their side and they were simply being faithful to God's Word.