Sentences with phrase «equal access to education»

Alternative schooling also offers school and community leaders the opportunity to fulfill their legal responsibility to provide equal access to education for all students.

Connections is committed to working with the schools it supports in ensuring students are provided equal access to the education program.

I have supported the messages of our civil rights leaders, and highlighted the laws that provide equal access to education and constitutional rights for all our citizens.

The mission of the Dept. of Education is «to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence throughout the nation.»

I don't ask about their documents, thanks to a 1982 Supreme Court decision which guarantees equal access to education regardless of immigration status.

The president may be hard - pressed to veto even a very conservative bill, though the administration has signaled in the past it will take a hard line when it comes to preserving annual tests and other provisions that focus on equal access to education in NCLB.

Failure to provide any child with equal access to their education is unacceptable and it is particularly alarming for transgender students, 75 percent of whom have reported feeling unsafe at school (GLSEN 2015).

Since equal access to education for all is both morally right and in the long - term interest of everyone, we dare not privatize the funding of education.

Committed to providing fairer and more equal access to education, the university is now recruiting students residing in the East Midlands for the programme, who will be able to get scholarship support by the university ad local charitable trust, who have contributed # 2 million towards the cost of the course.

The Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, which mandated the desegregation of public schools, gave the executive branch a legal precedent for enforcing equal access to education.

At least since the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, this has been interpreted to give the federal government the power to intervene in cases of legally sanctioned discrimination, like the segregation of public schools across the country; to mandate equal access to education for students with disabilities; and, according to some arguments, to correct for persistently unequal access to resources across states and districts of different income levels.

In essence, he ruled that the state's constitution guaranteed not just equal access to education but also equal access to quality education, which at its heart, he said, is about great teaching.

The U.S. Departments of Education and Justice on Thursday issued updated guidance to public elementary and secondary schools to ensure that no child is denied equal access to education, no matter their immigration status.

I believe in the power of education to serve as a lever for change — for individuals, community, and society — and, furthermore, that every child deserves equal access to an education that will enable this change.

«As a result of these arbitrary distinctions» in hiring and firing, the complaint reads, «children of substantially equal age, aptitude, motivation, and ability do not have substantially equal access to education.

The more important question is how much profit is too much and when do lender profits undermine our societal goal of promoting equal access to education.

We discuss equal access to education with Christian D'Andrea, an education policy analyst with the John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy in Madison, Wis., and Kyle Serrette, director of education justice campaigns at The Center for Popular Democracy.

Sixty years after Brown, many parents and teachers still worry that children do no receive equal access to education.

OCR's mission is to ensure equal access to education and promote educational excellence throughout the nation through the vigorous enforcement of civil rights.

President Kennedy, we all know, submitted major civil rights legislation to Congress guaranteeing equal access to education and protecting the right to vote for all.

The intent of the scholarship program is to provide equal access to education in the visual arts to youth who have a strong desire to learn but lack the financial means to afford our classes.

The Art Students League of Denver (ASLD) awards scholarships, when available, to provide equal access to education in the visual arts to those who have a strong desire to learn but lack the financial means to afford our classes.

«Equal access to education for students with disabilities can only be achieved when textbooks and other materials are universally designed and distributed.

The results, Thompson points out, would likely differ in less - developed countries where children don't have equal access to education; academic achievement in these places is shaped more by opportunities than genetics.

Kavuro C Refugee and Tertiary Education in South Africa: The Challenges to Equal Access to Education and Living a Dignified Life (Unpublished LLM Thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013b).

When applying this thought to education, does this really mean that the world would eventually get transformed in a way where everyone has equal access to education?

Despite my loss, the fight for religious freedom and equal access to education will continue, and I am only strengthened in my resolve to further those goals.

The winning initiatives focus on literacy, equal access to education, STEM learning and skills for future employment.

We believe education is a civil right necessary to the dignity and freedom of the American people, and all children should have equal access to an education that maximizes his or her individual potential.

Success is founded on equity, but equity involves more than simply ensuring students have equal access to education; equity also entails a focus on outcomes and results.

The mission of the OCR is to guarantee equal access to education and to promote educational excellence throughout the nation through vigorous enforcement of civil rights.

All students should have equal access to an education that maximizes their individual potential.

The federal government also enforces civil rights laws in public schools to ensure that they do not discriminate and provide equal access to education.

Because of a child's right to equal access to education, Magnolia enrolls students regardless of their immigration status or any other protected classification.

The mission of the OCR is, «to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence throughout the nation through vigorous enforcement of civil rights.»

First, we build a democratic foundation for equal access to education.

NSBA believes that all students should have equal access to an education that maximizes their individual potential.

The U.S Department of Education is dedicated to establishing policies on federal financial aid, collecting data on America's schools, focusing national attention on key educational issues and ensuring equal access to education.

NSBA believes public education is a civil right necessary to the dignity and freedom of the American people, and all children should have equal access to an education that maximizes his or her individual potential.

Secretary Arne Duncan and Attorney General Eric Holder today announced updated guidance to assist public elementary and secondary schools to ensure enrollment processes are consistent with the law and fulfill their obligation to provide all children — no matter their background — equal access to an education.

The path to equal access to education will never be paved with predatory student loans.

Their menu of strategies include the familiar, such as wind power and LED lighting, and the outside - the - box, such as reducing food waste and ensuring that girls have equal access to education.

Many would say things have not gotten better because it's hard to organize and create change when the system seems to say that everybody has equal access to education, but the on - the - ground reality, the subjective reality if you will, shows something that is completely contrary to that.