Sentences with phrase «ensure equal funding»

New Hampshire's attorney general will argue that public education is a state and local responsibility but that the state is not obligated to ensure equal funding among school districts, an opinion some local school - board members are preparing to support in the lawsuit over the legality of the state's school - funding method.

Not exact matches

During a speech in the Rose Garden, Trump announced a new White House faith office meant to «ensure that faith - based organizations have equal access to government funding and the equal right to exercise their deeply held beliefs.»

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), ACORN Canada (ACORN) and National Pensioners Federation (NPF) today reacted negatively to the Canadian Radio - television and Telecommunications Commission's (CRTC) rejection of their review of the CRTC's previous decision to deny creating a fund to ensure all Canadians, including lower - income Canadians, have equal access to broadband and other telecommunications services.

Trump said the order aims to ensure faith - based groups «have equal access to government funding and equal right to exercise their deeply held beliefs.»

Of course the Irish Government should have acted on behalf of all the Irish people, and ensured that funding and representation for both sides was really equal.

«These women are leading the fight to protect middle class families by raising the minimum wage, ensuring equal pay for equal work, protecting funding for Planned Parenthood, women's health care access, and reproductive rights,» Matthews said of the endorsements in a statement.

Ensure pork spending is subject to regulations that would mandate equal distribution of funds

But a campaign flyer lists her efforts to raise the minimum wage, increase school funding, promote equal pay for women and ensure affordable housing for seniors and the disabled.

The report, funded by the Commercial Education Trust, revealed that the negative perceptions around apprenticeships among students, teachers and parents hampers take - up and highlights how more needs to be done to ensure equal guidance for both academic and vocational pathways and challenge views about the suitability of different apprenticeships across genders.

States and localities should also do more to ensure that charter schools get an equal share of education funding.

The law was meant to ensure that schools and colleges receiving federal funds give equal educational opportunities to men and women.

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Considering fair school funding to be a state finance system that ensures equal educational opportunity by providing a sufficient level of funding...

To the extent that the right to an equal or adequate education is a personal right, held by each student, the legislature may be required to ensure that any school that a student attends with public funds delivers a constitutionally sufficient education.

To ensure that low - income schools are funded at equal levels with their more affluent counterparts, Congress should update the law and close the comparability loophole in the following three ways:

According to the account, the Republicans believe «the [Dept. of Education] is trying to reassert federal control by exceeding its authority with a rule that would require state and local spending in low - income schools receiving Title I funds to be equal or greater than non-Title I schools... and force schools to include teacher salaries when measuring spending between Title I and non-Title I schools...» At the same time, the story notes that «King is facing pressure from civil rights groups who want to ensure the new education law does not deprive low - income students of equal funding.»

Texas must ensure that, if local supplementation of a state - funded adequate system is allowed, the entire additional local tax effort provides equal yield for equal tax effort, regardless of the local property wealth of individual districts.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, the purpose of Title 1 funding, «is to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high quality education and reach, at minimum, proficiency on challenging state academic achievement standards and state academic assessments.»

Although his statewide marathon of appearances has proven less than fun when addressing crowds of individuals who seek to improve his reform proposals, he's repeatedly acknowledged how imperative it is for this state's future that the ravages of poverty be overcome within our public schools and that policies and state funding mechanisms be devised to ensure equal educational opportunity for all children.

We can also continue working to ensure that charter school autonomy is protected, that charter students have equal access to state and local funding, and that all Colorado charter schools are held accountable to high standards.

Filed and actively pursue an equity lawsuit constructed to ensure a fair and appropriate amount of state funding and equal opportunities for a thorough and efficient education for students in small and rural school districts

In brief, SEAs and LEAs can use these funds towards hiring teachers and administrators, ensuring an equal distribution of quality educators (especially to lower income districts), professional development, family outreach, and providing training to better reach underserved populations such as ELLs and students with disabilities.

«Racial discrimination in our nation's educational systems persists and both the Departments of Education and Justice are failing to protect the civil rights and educational future of our Black and brown students,» said Todd A. Cox, director of policy at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. «This administration must stop endangering students of color and instead ensure equal educational opportunities and foster educational excellence by upholding the federal school discipline guidance and promoting policies and programs that keep students safe.»

It also imperative that the state board of education adopt regulations that are consistent with the language and intent of the Local Control Funding Formula to ensure more equal education opportunities for children with the greatest need.

We believe that the Success Academy's growth must be accompanied by increased public accountability to ensure that all NYC district students have fair and equal access to its opportunities for academic enrichment, as well as to ensure that the network is not abusing public funding that traditional public schools unquestionably need.

The Title I funds are used to provide supplemental core academic instruction, instructional support, and parental involvement and engagement to schools to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high - quality education and reach, at a minimum, proficiency on challenging State academic achievement standards and state academic assessments.

Proposition Z ensures all public school students, including those that attend charters, will have a fair share of the funding, and equal access to improved facilities,» added Wallace.

«Our libraries are a community asset and now, stable and dedicated library funding is in place to ensure free and equal access to all for generations to come.»

«The government's recently announced funding for energy innovation projects is an encouraging step, but the priority should be market reform to ensure equal market access for demand - side providers and power generation.»

Directing court awards and unclaimed residual funds from class actions to the Montana Justice Foundation is one way you can help ensure equal access to justice for all Montanans.

Section 75 PBA imposes an obligation on the employer of a wound up plan to pay into the pension fund an amount equal to the total of all payments that are due or that have been accrued and have not been paid (s 75 (1)(a)-RRB- and under section 75 (1)(b), there is a formula for calculating the amount that must be paid to ensure the fund can cover its liabilities upon wind up.

OTTAWA, January 25, 2017 — The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), ACORN Canada (ACORN) and National Pensioners Federation (NPF) today reacted negatively to the Canadian Radio - television and Telecommunications Commission's (CRTC) rejection of their review of the CRTC's previous decision to deny creating a fund to ensure all Canadians, including lower - income Canadians, have equal access to broadband and other telecommunications services.

Recently, LFW and LAW Fund merged and fundraising is now channeled into the Campaign for Equal Justice and the Endowment for Equal Justice, two key vehicles that ensure stable funding for Washington's legal aid organizations.

The Civil Legal Aid Oversight Committee, Washington Supreme Court and Washington's Board for Judicial Administration have all urged congress to protect funding for the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), which seeks to ensure equal access to justice under the law for all Americans by providing civil legal assistance to those who otherwise would be unable to -LSB-...]

The Civil Legal Aid Oversight Committee, Washington Supreme Court and Washington's Board for Judicial Administration have all urged congress to protect funding for the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), which seeks to ensure equal access to justice under the law for all Americans by providing civil legal assistance to those who otherwise would be unable to afford it.

Continuing the Challenge of Court Funding «Of course, my first priority is to continue to work together to ensure full and fair funding of the courts so that our citizens have equal access to justice no matter where they live or what they do for a living,» ParientFunding «Of course, my first priority is to continue to work together to ensure full and fair funding of the courts so that our citizens have equal access to justice no matter where they live or what they do for a living,» Parientfunding of the courts so that our citizens have equal access to justice no matter where they live or what they do for a living,» Pariente said.

Particularly, at a time when the gaps in access to justice continue to grow, when there are no meaningful increases in funding for Legal Aid, and as litigants and accused increasingly represent themselves in court, it is essential that protections are in place to ensure that every citizen has access to equal justice regardless of income level or ability to pay.

The transaction mixing process essentially allows a sender to choose several «potential» signers in a pool to establish integrity of the transaction and to ensure that every potential signer has an equal weight, meaning that an entity is unable to decipher where the funds came from.

Understanding the intersection of immigration laws and laws governing federal funding for child care is critical to ensuring children from immigrant families receive equal access to quality child care.

This funding will put OFHEO on equal footing with other financial regulators while also helping it pursue its mission of ensuring effective oversight of the Government - Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs).