Sentences with phrase «equal education»

The curriculum is also defined as a tool for quality and equal education for all.

If we want to truly provide equal education opportunities, why not try something truly radical?

The task of creating equal education opportunities in a society full of uneven opportunities can seem nearly impossible.

A deep passion for providing low income and working class children equal education opportunities.

As public policy forces youth of conscience and commitment to equal education for all, as well as a living wage, migration out - of - state of our youth will continue.

The district must first demonstrate a willingness and desire to address an educational concern that is denying students an opportunity to receive quality instruction, receive equal education opportunity, or benefit from access to schools and all programs within those schools.

And yet, here in New York, it took until the Campaign for Fiscal Equity's victory just nine years ago to provide equal education funding for New York City and minority students.

At first instance, Judge Copley followed the recommendation of the Children and Family Reporter, that the schooling proposed by the mother offered a fuller and wider education and would ensure equal education for girls and boys.

«So rather than strike, we ask that the Chicago Teachers Union join us to fight for our shared goal of equal education funding from Springfield for Chicago's children,» Claypool said.

And they won because supporters of comprehensive high schools defined equal education as equal access to different and unequal programs.

«The basic postulate of our strategy and theory in Brown,» said Robert Carter, the general counsel for the NAACP who played a major role in organizing the social - science testimony that was vital in the case, «was that the elimination of enforced segregated education would necessarily result in equal education.»

The reason why isn't clear but the figures are — married men earn 11 percent more per hour than their single colleagues, even when they're the same age with equal education and experience.

Scott Jensen, a former Assembly speaker and senior adviser for the pro-voucher Wisconsin Federation for Children, said in February that the planned voucher expansion was «part of a nationwide civil rights movement that empowers parents, serves students, and creates a more equal education system.»

Washington — The Reagan Administration's education policies are «out of step» with the beliefs of the American public, according to a survey on «prominent issues in the 1984 elections» commissioned by the Project on Equal Education Rights of the now Legal Defense and Education Fund.

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.

Among these are the implementation of LCFF, with all school districts approving their Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAPs) by July 1, the primary election for Superintendent of Public Instruction, the deadline for districts» administration of pilot versions of Common Core State Standards tests, and a ruling in the Vergara lawsuit, around teacher tenure and job protection laws and students» right to access equal education.

Lau v. Nichols «Lau vs. Nichols» is a lawsuit filed by Chinese parents in San Francisco in 1974, which led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling that identical education does not constitute equal education under the Civil Rights Act.

A story not often covered in history texts, Susan E. Goodman's The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial, illustrated by the great E.B. Lewis, pays tribute to a young black girl and her family's efforts to bring about equal education in the public schools of mid-19th-century America.

The Utica City School District has settled a lawsuit with New York state over allegations that it denied equal education opportunities to some refugee and immigrant students.

The schools were segregated then, and separate education certainly did not mean equal education.

Boston Latin, one of the oldest and most prestigious public schools in America, succumbed to coeducation in 1972, the same year that Congress passed Title IX mandating equal education for the sexes.

That we are truly «equal education opportunists.»

Elisabeth Woody, the California researcher, says that the single - sex classrooms she observed often failed to give equal educations to boys and girls and, at least as worryingly, gave broad license to districts and teachers to decide what, exactly, a boy's or girl's education should look like.

The World Bank points out that the city also has one of the most equal education systems among PISA participant countries.

I believe that we all — administrators, teachers, parents — can move closer to real working solutions if we cut through the complexities and dare to address the hard core of the problem: the difference between equal education and excellent education.

Is Gifted Education Equal Education?

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«There is no proof that the lack of choices is keeping students from obtaining equal education opportunities under the U.S. Constitution,» he said.

The barter for charter system, for example has done little to eliminate the barriers to equal education posed by poverty and racism.

Furthermore it will certainly raise the question about whether Connecticut is attempting to walk away from the United States Supreme Court's most fundamental case on education — Brown vs. Board of Education which determined that racially separate but equal education violates the United States Constitution (as does racially separate and unequal education).

Our policy memo aims to explore what has caused this problem and to identify its constituent parts so that we can devise a solution in the pursuit of a truly equal education for every child.

Confronted by the dominant attitude that demographics were destiny, a group of committed educators, led by Dacia Toll and Doug McCurry, set out on a mission to provide equal education access to all America's children and conceived of a school in which high expectations and strong student outcomes were the norm — where access to four - year college for low - income students and those of color was a right, not a privilege.

With equal education.

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Partner with states and local communities to help ensure equal education opportunity and excellence in early childhood education programs and to ensure that children and their families have access to programs, services and supports that promote health, nutrition, economic independence and stability, and social competencies;

In announcing the deal, Klein said that despite the IDC's achievements, «it is also clear that core Democratic policy initiatives that the IDC championed remain unfinished,» including «equal education for all New Yorkers» through the DREAM Act, protecting abortion rights, increasing workers wages and campaign finance reform.

Lessons from Equal Education Opportunity Policy: Connecting the Past, Present, & Future

These are the facts, hidden by the façade and the fiction: For every one Magic Johnson, Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, or Eva Longoria, there are millions of blacks, Latinos, and others who have been barred from adequate housing, equal education, and affordable health care.

If I had known that my wife could leave, then demand, and win, alimony simply because her salary was less than mine (even though we have equal education) I would never have married.

Reyes made clear that he will further champion the rights of all students including immigrants and unaccompanied minors to get an equal education.

Unless the argument really is semantics, and not that everyone deserves an equal education.

Later Saturday, de Blasio spoke to a luncheon hosted by the City University of New York and said the school, with its belief in an equal education for all, «epitomizes the things we are fighting for» in the battle against the Trump administration's policies.

«As Democrats, the IDC remains committed to the fight for an equal education for all New York students — which the Dream Act would provide, protecting a woman's right to choose, increasing workers» wages, and enacting meaningful campaign finance reform.

But nothing requires an equal education for New York children.

I've been outspoken about the fact that we can go back to the»50s and talk about Brown vs. Board of Education and we're also supposed to be getting an equal education from the public schools but that's just woefully untrue.