Sentences with phrase «discrimination against charter»

And certainly charter advocates that have already filed lawsuits alleging discrimination against charter schools (in Washington, D.C. and New York state) should use the tactic, too.

This unilateral announcement is not a «resolution» — it's discrimination against charter children, whose families were never consulted about these locations.»

Not exact matches

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects against discrimination on the basis of sex.

An IOC spokesperson told us: «The Olympic Charter does not allow for discrimination against those taking part in the games.

The charter commits the government to countering all forms of discrimination against women, including violence, via the appropriate legislative and institutional measures.

It will change not because the feds will continue investigating discrimination against these children, as they found recently in a virtual Ohio charter, but because the smarter charter and virtual operators will find that they can succeed with special needs kids when others have failed.

In an earlier version, SB 793 was amended to offer protections against discrimination to gay students attending public charter schools.

These two factors lit a fire in me, urging me to volunteer my time to help battle the discrimination against independent charter schools.

Absent attention at the state and local level, we will have far more OCR complaints (e.g., the ACLU filed a complaint against charter schools in Delaware alleging discrimination by race, income and disability on December 5th) stemming from tacit acceptance of lack of access.

Lusher Charter School, Samuel J. Green Charter School in the Freret neighborhood and KIPP Believe College Prep in Carrollton are all mentioned in the article about a discrimination lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center against the state.

From opposing the expansion of high - quality charter schools and other school choice options, to its opposition to Parent Trigger laws and efforts of Parent Power activists in places such as Connecticut and California, to efforts to eviscerate accountability measures that hold districts and school operators to heel for serving Black and Brown children well, even to their historic disdain for Black families and condoning of Jim Crow discrimination against Black teachers, both unions have proven no better than outright White Supremacists when it comes to addressing the legacies of bigotry in which American public education is the nexus.

Interesting Link: Information about American hate groups at the Anti-Defamation League website, whose charter is to «secure justice and fair treatment to all citizens alike and to put an end forever to unjust and unfair discrimination against, and ridicule of, any sect or body of citizens.»

15 The Board shall not certify a trade union if any employer or any employers» organization has participated in its formation or administration or has contributed financial or other support to it or if it discriminates against any person because of any ground of discrimination prohibited by the Human Rights Code or the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

This reasoning has enabled Canadians who are members of sexual minorities to fight against discrimination and to have sexual orientation recognized as an analogous ground under s. 15 of the Charter.

The Barreau made a point of reaffirming the rights and freedoms enshrined in the Charter, in particular, the rights to equality and protection against discrimination.

But an overview of the matter is that the original Indian Act was grossly discriminatory against women; in 1985 amendments were introduced to make the Act comply with the Charter; they eliminated discrimination on the basis of gender prospectively, however, leaving invidious distinctions in place where they were based on events occurring prior to the 1985 amendments.

In particular, she argued the Tribunal erred by holding the words «with respect to employment» were ambiguous, thus necessitating a consideration of Charter values and a balancing of Mr. Dvorak's free speech and associational rights against her Code right to be free from discrimination.

Your motives are unjust and unreasonable FRANKLY i think canada is better then this nonsense and should be aware of how the government is portraying this country furthermore stop referring to canadian residing citizens as FORIEGNERS its harsh and i cant imagine canadian citizens would tolerate this discrimination which by the way goes against charter rights!

The recommendations fail to address sexual violence from the perspective of human rights law such as the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees not only the right to be protected against discrimination and harassment based on gender, race and sexual orientation, among others, but also the right to life and the security of the person, the right to dignity, honor and the integrity of the person, and the right to privacy.

Carrying more legal weight as a constitutional document than its predecessor, the Charter provides the guaranteed protection of important rights such as freedom of conscience, religion, expression, and association; the democratic right to vote; mobility rights to enter and leave Canada as well as reside anywhere within Canada; legal rights in criminal matters; equality rights against discrimination; and language rights.

HC had submitted that her exclusion from entitlement (by three statutory instruments)(i) involved unlawful discrimination against her and / or her children; (ii) breached the EU Charter, arts 24 and 34 (requiring equal treatment); and (iii) breached the PSED, as there was insufficient recognition of the effects on women and children in the defendants» equality analysis and statements.

On May 31, 2016, Quebec tabled Bill 103, An Act to strengthen the fight against transphobia and improve the situation of transgender minors in particular, with the goal of amending the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on gender identity (although it includes other provisions related to other Acts).

The majority's decision gave considerable weight to those claims, but emphasized that there is no hierarchy of rights under the Charter, such that the those claims must be balanced against the co-equal claims to religious freedom (and freedom from discrimination on the basis of religion).

Most of you Ontario lawyers were in an uproar and greatly offended because the PQ government was disregarding such protection against discrimination based on religious beliefs by the introduction of the Charter for a neutral secular government... You were all crying out for Canada's image of pluralism, multiculturalism, diversity and tolerance!!!

Anonymous Lawyer: «When the BC Law Society accredited TWU, it was in essence an endorsement of the discriminatory practices this private entity engages in and sent a message to the public that discrimination against gay people was ok, even though they are protected under the Charter and even though same - sex marriages are legally recognized.

As the SCC noted in TWU, the charter values which protect against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation (or race or gender) do not necessarily override those values favouring religious freedom, they must be balanced against one another.