Sentences with phrase «denied equal educational opportunity»

Finally, he encourages Congress to adopt an «equal education» clause, that states no child in the US will be «denied equal educational opportunity in elementary and secondary education through the lack of a challenging curriculum, well - prepared and effective teachers, and the funding to pay for that education.»

The Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974 states, «No state shall deny equal educational opportunity on account of his / her race, color, sex or national origin by... the failure of an educational agency to take appropriate action to overcome language barriers that impede equal participation by its students in its instructional program» (20 U.S.C., Section 1703 (f)-RRB-.

While it could be argued that class discrimination, denying equal educational opportunity, was the source of the solicitor — clerk divide, ethnic and religious prejudice remained a significant feature of the profession in the 1950s.

Not exact matches

The same universities who denied for years and years minorities equal access to equitable educational opportunities?

My only hope is that the conversation about this case be broadened a bit beyond just teachers to get at the heart of the legal claim: that poor and minority kids are being denied their constitutional right to equal educational opportunities.

Much has changed since the fledgling Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE), 14 New York City community school boards, and 23 individual parents and their children lodged the initial complaint charging the State of New York with denying «thousands of public school students in the City of New York their constitutional rights to equal educational opportunities.»

Some 11 years after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Texas's system of financing public schools, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund has launched a new challenge in state court, charging that the finance system denies students in poor districts equal educational opportunity and should be declared unconstitutional.

«At - risk children, who are not presently in quality pre-kindergarten educational programs, are being denied their fundamental constitutional right to receive the equal opportunity to a sound basic education.»

Children of illegal immigrants should not be denied access to equal educational opportunities in public schools.

When the courts ruled that seniority - based layoffs at these schools denied students their right to equal educational opportunity as guaranteed by the state constitution, many hard - core unionists were infuriated.

«Students of color are now the majority of our nation's public school system, but our educational system continues to deny too many of these students an equal educational opportunity.

«The injunction granted by a conscientious and courageous judge establishes the principle that government may not deny children their right to equal educational opportunity by disproportionately laying off teachers in communities such as Watts and Pico - Union.

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.

The teacher layoffs at Gompers, Liechty and Markham denied students their right to equal educational opportunity as guaranteed by the state Constitution.

The lawsuit argues that students at schools like Markham have been denied their constitutional right to equal educational opportunities as a result of the layoffs.

«Every passing day denies these children their constitutional right to a substantially equal educational opportunity.

These improvements are necessary at all phases of the assessment process, but as this study indicates, the present policy is likely denying services these student need and violating the rights of these students to an equal educational opportunity.