Sentences with phrase «discriminate against poor»

On the supply side, moreover, private schools may find these advantaged parents (and their children) desirable, and may discriminate against poor and minority families.

«The government has no place in discriminating against poor religious minorities or in pitting a religious education institution's faith - based identity against its American identity,» continued the statement, which was signed by 145 Christian, Muslim, and Jewish leaders.

The governor proposed criminal justice reforms that were cheered by advocates, who say the current system discriminates against the poor and people of color, while also managing to double as an attack on his longtime frenemy, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed criminal justice reforms were cheered Wednesday by advocates, who say the current system discriminates against the poor and people of color.

Schenectady City Schools Superintendent Laurence Spring has filed a federal complaint that argues the state's aid formula discriminates against poor and minority students.

Indeed, wrath and outrage are the only sane and appropriate responses to the gulf between science and practice that, as Seidenberg notes, places millions of children at risk of reading failure, discriminates against poorer children, and discourages children who might have become successful readers.

Like the Common Core test itself, the entire testing effort discriminates against poorer children, children who aren't fluent in the English Language and students who are not getting the special education services they need.

There are so many education implications in this New York Times story about child safety agencies discriminating against poor minority parents: How are children's academics affected by being removed from their parents» homes and sent to foster care?

Existing evidence does, however, show that pupil selection discriminates against the poorest children.

As more and more parents understand, the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) Testing program unfairly discriminates against poor students, students who aren't fluent in the English language and students who require special education services.

These systems flagrantly favored school districts in affluent white suburbs and discriminated against poor districts in urban and rural areas with high minority populations.

As such, the current Fed policy that tends to raise commodity and asset prices discriminates against the poor and in favor of the rich.

The researchers get a bit off track when they imply that using credit scores discriminates against the poor, because that isn't something that's backed up by research.

Not exact matches

Instead of looking at a universal definition of the poor as those who have been deprived, stereotyped and discriminated against, they are on a mission to make the cripple to walk; the blind to see forcibly; the deaf to hear by knocking their ears with sledge hammer; the dumb to speak by inserting tube in their esophagus and the list goes.

«11 By means of a process or an event (it is difficult to define it precisely), one who by all odds could otherwise claim epistemological privilege becomes aware of a complete reversal of the notion of «privilege» finds that an extraordinary kind of truthfulness (which is not «objectivity») attaches to the «partial» perspective glimpsed from the vantage of the struggle of the poor, the discriminated - against, the forgotten - about.

Has it discriminated against blacks and the poor?

They're pervasive; they don't discriminate against Republicans, Democrats, rich, poor, old, young and they're absolutely devastating families in our community and people want answers.»

According to a lawsuit filed by parents with the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, New York State has systematically discriminated against districts with black, Latino, and poor students by inadequately funding their education.

What will she do about that to help these poor men who are being discriminated against?

«The standard stuff in the literature suggests that poor kids, kids from discriminated - against groups, and boys are more likely to be aggressive, but our findings don't support this,» adds Fischer.

But some experts worry that this shift will discriminate against students from low - performing high schools in poor areas, pushing more students away from universities and into already - overburdened community colleges.

Like all standardized tests, the Common Core SBAC discriminates against students who come from poor households, students who are not fluent in the English language and students who have special education needs.

It was so touching, looking at a poor orphan gal being mistreated and discriminated against by her auntie and cousins, locked up in the red room.

Luckily for Missouri residents who have less than impressive credit history, lenders of title loans do not discriminate against borrowers with poor credit scores.

The reasoning behind this madness is that the algorithms that calculate scores can not discriminate against wealthier / poorer individuals.

He explained that he was joining «the loyal opposition... [to] point out that we've also been really a horrible country too... look across the real streets at the poor, the discriminated against, the disenfranchised, and the large numbers of persons in prisons, just to mention a few.»

When poor children are more likely to get sick and die than children in wealthier neighborhoods just across town; when rural families are more likely to go without clean water; when ethnic and religious minorities, or people with disabilities, or people of different sexual orientations are discriminated against or can't access education and opportunity — that holds all of us back.

These people are very poor, it's very cruel to discriminate against them while we waste so much energy and don't even try to ratify Kyoto or make a dent in our greenhouse emissions by nuclear plant construction.

The poor discriminated against females as portrayed by the feminist sector is clearly an incorrect narrative.

This fee discriminates against (both asset and income) poor people, but not single ones.

This seems like pretty poor reporting not to mention that Mr. Pieters was previously discriminated against by the Peel Law Association which led to a HRTO complaint and an ONCA deciison.

top groups discriminated against in our courts include the poor, African Americans and Fathers

- Americans believe the top groups discriminated against in US Courts are; The Poor, African Americans, and Divorced Fathers

A federal judge has ordered the city of Sunnyvale, Texas, a sprawling Dallas suburb, to revise zoning ordinances that discriminate against minorities and the poor.