Sentences with phrase «enforcing federal civil rights»

As a national coalition of advocacy and education organizations across 29 states and Washington D.C. working to dismantle the school - to - prison pipeline, DSC strongly asserts that Mr. Marcus» background and his testimony during his confirmation hearing reveal that he is unfit to carry out the responsibilities of the Office for Civil Rights, which is responsible for enforcing federal civil rights laws in our nation's schools.

OCR's mission is to ensure equal access to education and promote educational excellence throughout the nation through the vigorous enforcement of civil rights OCR is responsible for enforcing federal civil rights laws that prohibit discrimination by educational institutions on the basis of disability, race, color, national origin, sex, and age, as well as the Boy Scouts of America Equal Access Act of 2001.

These documents explain how the Department interprets and enforces federal civil rights laws protecting the rights of students with disabilities, including Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504) and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

The U.S. Department of Education released three new sets of guidance today to assist the public in understanding how the Department interprets and enforces federal civil rights laws protecting the rights of students with disabilities.

DOCR enforces federal civil rights laws and regulations that prohibit various forms of discrimination in federally operated and assisted transportation programs.

Not exact matches

The fate of the civil rights movement, its leaders recognized, lay in its ability to convince politicians and administrators in the federal government that it was in their interest to enforce the law and defend the Constitution in the South in the face of the massive resistance by politically potent segregationists.

Declaring that the «grand jury system is broken» in «dealing with police... questions of criminality and killings» Sharpton urged federal government action akin to the mid-20th century actions on enforcing civil rights.

Well - functioning school choice requires a federal role in gathering and disseminating high - quality data on school performance; ensures that civil rights laws are enforced; distributes funds based on enrollment of high - need students in particular schools; and supports a growing supply of school options through an expanded, equitably funded charter sector and through the unfettered growth of digital learning via application of the U.S. Constitution's commerce clause.

Civil rights advocates charged in a strongly worded report last week that the Clinton administration has failed to enforce key provisions of the largest federal K - 12 program by allowing states and districts to set lower expectations for their disadvantaged students.

Governing education, aside from enforcing civil rights legislation and regulating schooling on federal lands, is not among them.

As much as empirical challenges may seem to render this debate theoretical, it is a critical one for policy: the authority to issue federal guidance to schools on discipline disparities comes directly from administrative authority to enforce the Civil Rights Act, which requires either different treatment or disparate intent.

Or fifty years later, in Runyon v McClary (1976), the Court ruled that the racially - discriminatory admissions policy of a private school in Virginia violated federal laws that hearkened back to the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which «prohibits racial discrimination in the making and enforcing of private contracts.»

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That 2014 civil rights guidance — jointly issued by the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice — put schools on notice that they may be found in violation of federal civil rights laws if they enforce intentially discriminatory rules or if their policies lead to disproportionately higher rates of discipline for students in one racial group, even if those policies were written without discriminatory intent.

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Often conspiracy to deprive someone of their civil rights is used as a federal offense when there is a state level acquittal, and it isn't impossible to imagine that happening in this case as the victim had a right to the protection of the laws, and the state had a right to enforce the criminal laws, which was deprived in a manner that could be called «under color of state law.»

In the mid-20th century, federal judges who were mostly insulated from political pressure enforced desegregation orders and civil rights laws in the face of defiance from Southern politicians defending white supremacy.

On April 25, 2012, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)-- the agency that enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination — approved an updated «Enforcement Guidance on the Consideration of Arrest and Conviction Records in Employment Decisions Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.»