Sentences with phrase «denied access to education»

Girls in the poorest regions of the world are more likely than boys to be malnourished and be denied access to education.

«Numeracy and literacy are important and will always be measured and valued by us as a school but we also have a much bigger responsibility and purpose in developing young people who have been denied access to education previously,» Lenten said.

No gay person as far as I know has been denied access to education, primary, secondary or tertiary, denied access to any restaurant they want to eat in, denied rental of a car or hotel, or denied entertainment at Labadi Beach.

The NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, has called on the Labour Party to help poverty proof the school day and ensure that no child is denied access to education opportunities on the basis of their parents» ability to pay.

«Despite the agreement at the United Nations Summit, we must not forget that today over 60 million children, mainly girls, are denied access to education.

As a result, these children might end up being housed with adults, denied access to education or even detained as an adult in an Immigration Removal Centre and forcibly removed from the country.»

Growing sectors of the populations are denied access to education, basic health services, or jobs that would allow even a precarious subsistence, The poor, the marginalized and the excluded are not significant consumers, much less players in the global market; they have no access to information highways and hardly a chance to shape any of the other significant byways of the process of capitalist globalization.

Not exact matches

In medieval times, it was almost the sole basis of Jewish education, and it continued to be so down into the modern period, wherever Jews were confined to the ghettos of Europe and denied access to public educational institutions.

Lord Rix, president of Mencap, wanted confirmation that the bill would not be used as an opportunity to deny disabled children access to mainstream education in an academy if that was their wish.

The question we face is why we cowardly allow the General Legal Council to deny those with Law degrees access to professional education, contrary to law.

The organization, in the petition signed by its senior staff attorney, Timothy Adewale, said, «The allegation that N500m has been lost to corruption has resulted in denying the girls access to education, and shows the failure of the former President Goodluck Jonathan government to live up to Nigeria's commitments under the global Safe School Declaration.»

After the council hearing, the group was set to hold a press conference and protest outside the education department's headquarters at the Tweed Courthouse, accusing the DOE and the Public Schools Athletic League (PSAL) or denying schools of color equal access to sports teams.

Although initially sceptical about the need for change, as the blinders are ripped from her eyes Maud realizes she must play her part to secure a brighter future for women across the country — which means equal pay, parental rights for mothers, access to education and a slew of other human rights — all of which she and other women of all social and economic classes were denied.

The resources exist and yet on a daily basis all over the world women, men and children are denied access to their fundamental human right to education, health, water, sanitation and food security.

We also find that this online option expands access to education and does not substitute for other informal training, and that students denied admission do not pursue any other formal education.

It is certainly of concern that children in these more rural schools may be denied access to the latest, most innovative digital education learning content because of a mismatch in broadband and connectivity, as the findings of our research implied.

However, in an article for Education Next, Nelson Smith writes that «distressingly often,» charter schools are denied access to school buildings that a school district no longer uses.

So, if we imagine, as the letter writer does, that many of these disabled students were denied access to public education, then the addition of teachers was roughly commensurate with the addition of disabled students.

By using the threat of effectively denying the children of military personnel access to public education, the bill seeks to force the federal government either to increase its impact - aid payments to districts or to establish separate schools, with full federal funding, on the bases.

The decent public education long denied New Orleans youth was framed as a civil right at least as fundamental as the access to jobs, public accommodations, and polling places that had been milestones in an earlier generation's fight to overcome segregation.

Chris Cook, education correspondent for the Financial Times, recently covered the issue, reporting that while conventional schools can call on their local authorities for help, academies do not have access to council funds and, in some cases, maybe denied access to advice and guidance.

This time, he will go to work on Capitol Hill as part of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Fellowship, which provides an opportunity to gain an interdisciplinary understanding of the issues that engender a «school - to - prison pipeline,» and the policy mechanism necessary to address the inequalities that deny some students access to a complete and competitive education, from cradle through career.

Many vulnerable children across the Deep South are being denied access to a quality public education and the mental health services they need.

If the De Blasio administration takes away funding for construction along with access to vacant space in public school buildings, the cold hard reality is that tens of thousands of New York City students will be denied a chance for a better education.»

In the 1982 case Plyler v. Doe, the Supreme Court ruled that students» access to a public education can not be denied based on their immigration status.

For the legislators who worked to defeat these measures and deny families access to quality education options, they too have a record, and a day of reckoning with the voters is coming.

These brave charter school parents argue the state funding formula results in their children receiving only 60 to 75 cents on every dollar and no facilities funding denies them access to a sound basic education, as required by the New York State Constitution.

The defendants lost the case last June when Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Rolf Treu struck down California's laws regarding teacher tenure, layoffs and dismissals by saying they deny students access to a quality public education.

Parents and teachers have until April 18 to email comments on the state's draft plan to overhaul special education, as Texas tries to reform its services after more than a decade of denying children access.

They can choose to deny children access to a great education by continuing to enroll them in seriously low performing schools, try to find enough money to move to a more affluent neighborhood (good luck with that) or face possible jail time or probation for using another address, in another zip code, just to get a chance at a good education.

A growing body of research shows that in many instances gifted black and Hispanic students are disproportionally denied access to gifted education because of the methods and instruments used.

Denying children access to education will not eliminate illegal immigration.

In response to a question from Representative Katherine Clark whether an Indiana voucher school that denies access to students with LGBT parents would be disqualified from receiving education funds, DeVos answered, «For states who have programs that allow for parents to make choices, they set up the rules around that.»

The district must first demonstrate a willingness and desire to address an educational concern that is denying students an opportunity to receive quality instruction, receive equal education opportunity, or benefit from access to schools and all programs within those schools.

Yet we continue hoping our test - driven system will do what it has failed to do in 24 years: close achievement gaps and ensure no student is denied access to a good public education because of their zip code.

«If it is the case that students are being denied the chance of equality of access, in order to skew exam results, then clearly this goes against everything that education should be about.»

That's why I feel compelled to hold Mayor Bill de Blasio, accountable for denying public charter schools access to public space, and limiting the education options available to South Bronx families.

In case lawmakers balk, a ballot initiative is in the works, as is a legal move involving a prominent Boston firm that has filed a class - action suit to lift the charter cap, arguing that it unconstitutionally denies children access to an adequate education.

Through examining course offerings at high schools in 12 cities (and at three elementary schools in Chicago), the report, demonstrates that, 64 years after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, black and brown students are still denied «access to inspiration» in comparison with their white, more affluent peers.

No child should be denied access to a quality education because of their parent's income or their zip code

That lawsuit charged the DOE with violating state education law by making zoning changes that affect neighborhood schools without approval from Community Education Councils, effectively denying parents and children access to neighborhood schools without a voice in theeducation law by making zoning changes that affect neighborhood schools without approval from Community Education Councils, effectively denying parents and children access to neighborhood schools without a voice in theEducation Councils, effectively denying parents and children access to neighborhood schools without a voice in the process.

«To suspend a student because of behavior that is a result of their disability is the equivalent of denying that student access to educatioTo suspend a student because of behavior that is a result of their disability is the equivalent of denying that student access to educatioto education.

Behind the rhetoric of «transparency» and «inclusion,» CPS under the administrators appointed by Rahm Emanuel's Board of Education are going out of their way to deny the public access to key information and to make sure that reporters — especially those with cameras and video cameras — are denied access to the growing mass movement across the city that is demanding no cuts this school year.

These brave charter school parents argued the state funding formula results in their children receiving only 60 to 75 cents on every dollar and no facilities funding denies them access to a sound basic education, as required by the New York State Constitution.

May said it was «completely illogical» to make it illegal to open good schools, and accused other politicians of putting their own «dogma and ideology» before pupils, and denying others access to the kind of education that they themselves had often benefited from.

Like CAP, Weingarten drew parallels between the history of private school vouchers and efforts today by the President and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to deny public schools adequate funding while expanding access to vouchers.

First was the legislative effort, then a ballot question, and the third alternative was a lawsuit using an elite Boston law firm to «file a class - action suit to lift the charter cap» because «it unconstitutionally denies children access to an adequate education.»

Both approaches reverse structurally racist policies that have systemically denied marginalized communities of color equitable access to quality education.

In addition to the Photographese exhibition, Lensational will also launch a fundraising event in partnership with Daughters Rising, an organisation that works with stateless Burmese women who have no official identity or citizenship in Thailand and are denied access to formal education, healthcare and employment, and aggressively targeted by traffickers.

Myanmar has one of the lowest electrification rates in Asia, with more than 60 % of the population without access to a modern form of electricity, denying people the ability to work, weakening health and safety, education, and limiting the opportunity to rise out of poverty.