Sentences with phrase «ensures language access»

The agreement ensures language access for one of the state's so - called Limited English Proficient, or LEP, communities.

The keynote will be followed by workshop sessions on a wide variety of topics of interest to criminal, juvenile, child welfare and mental health practitioners, including but not limited to the wrongful conviction and exoneration of Frederick Clay, litigating nursing home admissions, appellate advocacy, criminal case law update, how to use social science research in your case, the new sentencing guidelines, restorative justice, ensuring language access, advanced issues in Superior Court litigation, representing emerging adults, how to contest preliminary drug test results, a practicum on mindfulness, as well as the latest from the immigration impact unit.

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Saying that the effort will help ensure equal access to the ballot box on election day, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has announced an Election Day hotline designed to help ensure that minority - language voters, people with disabilities and all eligible voters are able to cast «an effective ballot» during the September 10th primary election.

Going forward, we must work to ensure that all students — regardless of the region of the state or the wealth of the district — have access to a rich array of course opportunities in the humanities, the STEM fields, the Arts, Career and Technical Education, and languages other than English (LOTE),» said Commissioner King.

The Department of Agriculture and IRRI launched the Rice Crop Manager (RCM), a free mobile phone service that allows Filipino farmers and extension workers easy access to information to help reduce fertilizer waste and ensure rice crops have enough nutrients to reach their yield potential.This program is available in five local languages — Bicolano, Ilokano, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, and Tagalog.

It's a means of ensuring that our least fortunate children have access to the enabling knowledge and vocabulary that is the foundation of language proficiency, critical thinking, problem solving, and every other big picture academic outcome we seek for our least advantaged children.

Education policy must ensure that all learners, including minority language speakers, access school in a language they know.»

Ambition on is closing the word gap by boosting access to high quality early language and literacy, both in the classroom and at home, ensuring more disadvantaged children leave school having mastered the basic of literacy that many take for granted.

The plan's five main objectives, to be delivered by 2021, are: to develop a new Welsh language; to increase opportunities for children and young people to use their Welsh in various contexts and embed their language use patterns from an early age; to support leaders and practitioners in Wales to continue to develop their Welsh language skills and have the knowledge and expertise to deliver the curriculum through the medium of Welsh and Welsh as a subject; to increase the number of learners in Welsh - medium settings; and to ensure that all learners can have equal access to Welsh - medium education and experience the best opportunities to develop their language skills.

If enrollment for rural schools declines further, it will only increase the challenge of providing federally mandated programs for students in special education, English - language instruction, and ensuring students have access to school personnel and curriculum.

San Francisco Unified's English - language - learner services are governed by the Lau Action Plan, which outlines steps the district must take to ensure students with limited English proficiency receive sufficient language instruction in English and full access to the mainstream curriculum.

The SBOE will also work with the Mayor and Council to ensure that these report cards are accessible and translated into all of the languages required by the Language Access Act.

We must ensure our students of color, immigrant students, students speaking languages other than English and female students, in particular, have consistent access to excellent STEM teachers and opportunities.

Should ELLs be taught in bilingual classrooms that promote fluency in their home language and ensure access to core academic content while they develop English language skills?

To ensure that the Common Core Standards are implemented in a way that fully includes English Learners and that meets their unique language development and access needs, we have published «Raise Your Voices for English Learners: The English Learners and Common Core Advocacy Toolkit».

Specifically, PSEL defines effectiveness in this area as ensuring that students have equitable access to effective teachers and supports, developing policies that fairly address student misconduct, and confronting biases and «low expectations associated with race, class, culture and language, gender and sexual orientation, and disability or special status,» among other tenets.

Alignment not only helps students access the core curriculum but also ensures that students learn the language and have repeated opportunities to access and use the language in core content classes.

Ensure access and inclusion so that every child, regardless of race, color, national origin, home language, gender, economic circumstance or disability, attends good schools, has opportunities to learn and has appropriate support to reach his or her highest potential.

Find out more about our English language teaching work in the Middle East including how we are helping to ensure that refugees are able to access quality education.

New legislation is needed to ensure that we are collecting enough information about charter school students so that we can monitor student access and outcomes by race, class, and language ability.

To ensure the language proficiency of ELLs with disabilities are validly and reliably assessed, the student's IEP Team must determine whether an ELL with a disability needs to received appropriate accommodation on the ACCESS for ELLs 2.0, or needs to take the alternate assessment.

The Connecticut Center for School Change works to ensure that all students — regardless of income, ethnicity, language, race, zip code, disability — have equal access to and experience of a high - quality education and are supported in achieving at high levels.

Lorenzo Manor Elementary, in their second year of inquiry, is focusing on supporting students» academic language development in order to ensure equitable access to curriculum and full participation in the classroom community for all students.

Guidance and additional resources to ensure that English language learners (ELLs) have access to a high - quality education have been released jointly by the U.S. Department of Education and Department of Justice.

Targeted scaffolds for Response to Intervention students and English language learners ensure equity of access for all students.

Lorenzo Manor teacher scholars are focusing on supporting students» academic language development in order to ensure equitable access to curriculum and full participation in the classroom community for all students.

Finally, as a dual language leader, ensure that teachers have access to specific and targeted dual language professional development focused on biliteracy and facilitated in both program languages, rather than delivered solely through an English lens.

As school districts begin to adjust their programs to meet the expectations of the CCSS, they are faced with the responsibility of ensuring that English language learners (ELLs) gain access to the curriculum and develop the academic language skills required by the CCSS.

Lorenzo Manor Elementary School, in its second year of inquiry, is focusing on supporting students» academic language development in order to ensure equitable access to curriculum and full participation in the classroom community for all students.

Proposals also include creating a curriculum designed to span sixth grade through senior year of high school to ensure middle schools and high schools aren't inconsistently rigorous, and ensuring equitable access to advanced courses and foreign languages.

Since 2014, she has worked as an attorney with the Federal Coordination and Compliance Section, where she coordinates with federal agencies to ensure consistent enforcement of civil rights statutes and Executive Orders prohibiting discrimination in federally conducted and assisted programs and activities and participates in investigations and lawsuits related to the failure to provide language access services.

ohn Markham Beach is a superb translator, ensuring through footnotes that the reader has access to Gary's many historical allusions and plays on words that require dual language explanation; The Kites is a moving love story that is an ode to the power of optimism.

Maintaining a centralised repository of all critical operational data is crucial and using the LEVERTON platform, the retailer is able to ensure that all information regarding their assets across various regions, in multiple languages can now be easily extracted, accessed and interrogated.

• An indication of how the project will: - broaden knowledge about the legal needs of persons who are Deaf, the best ways to meet those needs, and how to ensure access to sign language interpreters in community legal settings; and - contribute to a vision on access to legal services in community settings by persons who are Deaf, deafened or hard of hearing.

Thus, the CSLF recommends that the Ministry of Immigration and Cultural Affairs be given the resources necessary to ensure that eligible immigrants can access French courses as soon as possible upon arriving in Quebec, and that these courses go beyond French language training to include cultural awareness of Quebec society.

Plourde also said the move will be good for access to justice as the influx of francophone lawyers to Ontario and English - speaking lawyers to Quebec will ensure clients who speak only one of Canada's official languages receive better service in both provinces.

The DIFC Courts are independent from, but complementary to, the UAE's Arabic - language civil law system — offering a choice that strengthens both processes while ensuring public access to world - class justice.

In the year since the American Bar Association adopted new guidelines for language access in the courts, proponents said today that although there's been progress, court systems nationwide can do much more to ensure all litigants understand what's happening when they step inside a courthouse.

The Los Angeles Superior Court Language Access Services Division provides multilingual interpretation and general language services in court proceedings to ensure meaningful participation in the judicial court process for individuals with limited English proficiency.

As Canada's population of newcomers continues to increase (including immigrants, temporary foreign workers, and even undocumented workers), language barriers must be addressed in order to ensure access to justice.

IRI helps to ensure that thousands of members in dozens of countries have access to materials in their native languages.

With the goal of expanding access to reproductive health information, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) announces the launch of its Spanish - language mobile website, Planned Parenthood en Español Móvil (plannedparenthood.org/esp), ensuring that the facts on birth control, sexually transmitted infections, parent / teen - talks about sex and finding the nearest health center, among many other topics, are available by mobile phone in Spanish.

Interpreters play a crucial role in ensuring that people who don't speak English, or speak English as a second language, are able to access appropriate support and legal services.

While boilerplate language is useful to ensure compliance with building code and disability access laws, it doesn't cover all of the legal dynamics of marijuana leasing.