Despite the American promise
of equal educational opportunity for all students, persistent achievement gaps among more and less advantaged groups of students remain, along with the opportunity gaps that create disparate outcomes.
Equal educational opportunity means ensuring schools have the resources they need to provide real and meaningful opportunities for all students to succeed, regardless of family income or race.
«The presence of immigration agents is disruptive to the learning environment and flies in the face of children's right to
equal educational opportunity as guaranteed by the U.S. and California Constitutions.
The struggle to desegregate America's schools while
ensuring equal educational opportunities for students of all races is one of the greatest social challenges the nation has faced over the last half century.
As a result, the Coleman report failed to accomplish one of the key goals that led Congress to commission the report in the first place: a forward march
toward equal educational opportunity across racial groups.
Jennings favors a federal law declaring that «no child in the United States will be
denied equal educational opportunity in elementary and secondary education through the lack of a challenging curriculum, well - prepared and effective teachers, and the funding to pay for that education.»
Equal educational opportunity requires that all students, regardless of race, color, or national origin, have comparable access to the diverse range of courses, programs, and extracurricular activities offered in our Nation's schools.
Connecticut was one of the first states in the country where the courts stepped in to say that a child's right to an education was so fundamental that state governments must act to ensure that school financing systems «provide a
substantially equal educational opportunity.»
We sat down with Linnea Nelson, ACLU of Northern California staff attorney who specializes in education equity, to better understand how this new funding formula could help ensure
more equal educational opportunities for all of California's schoolchildren.
Unlike the Committee of Ten model, in which all students followed similar college preparatory programs, in the Cardinal Principles
model equal educational opportunity was achieved because all graduates received the same ultimate credential, a high - school diploma, despite having followed very different education programs and having met very different standards in the process.
IDRA is an independent, non-profit organization that is dedicated to
assuring equal educational opportunity for every child through strong public schools that prepare all students to access and succeed in college.
Further, New York's proposal to selectively provide students with disabilities who are below grade level a different test from students without disabilities who are below grade level unjustly discriminates and violates these students» rights under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 [viii] since it deprives these students with
disabilities equal educational opportunities and benefits as those available to non-disabled students.
The Court decided that these students «were not
receiving equal educational opportunity because they did not understand the language of instruction and the schools were not doing anything to assist them.»
«We applaud the voters yesterday whose voices spoke loud and clear as they demanded leaders who
embrace equal educational opportunities,» said Adam Rogalski, Director of Government Affairs for INCS Action.
In his 1999 paper Determinants of Democracy, Harvard macroeconomist Robert Barro finds a significant relationship between more
equal educational opportunity between the sexes and the «target» level of democracy (for which elections serve as a proxy).
«The results suggest that we should expect that women demonstrate relative strength in particular cognitive functions while men in others, even in societies with higher living conditions and more
gender equal educational opportunities,» explains Weber.
We want to strengthen Europe, improve integration
through equal educational opportunities for everyone, drive forward the energy transition as a trigger for global climate change mitigation and firmly anchor cultural education in schools.
This guide is intended to arm policymakers and advocates with the essential background needed to craft constitutional school choice legislation — and to forge ahead with confidence in
delivering equal educational opportunity to all families, regardless of their means.
In Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U. S. 483 (1954)(Brown I), we held that segregation deprived black children of
equal educational opportunities regardless of whether school facilities and other tangible factors were equal, because government classification and separation on grounds of race themselves denoted inferiority.
And while the ESEA must continue to balance federal oversight and decisionmaking at the state level, it must ensure that the federal government retains its long - standing and crucial role in
safeguarding equal educational opportunity.
The Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974 states, «No state shall deny
equal educational opportunity on account of his / her race, color, sex or national origin by... the failure of an educational agency to take appropriate action to overcome language barriers that impede equal participation by its students in its instructional program» (20 U.S.C., Section 1703 (f)-RRB-.
Under that level of review, the plaintiffs have a better chance, and in their response to the request for judgement, they intend to argue that the evidence thus far has shown a «real and appreciable impact» that
threatens equal educational opportunities.
The lawsuit targeted the devastating impact of massive and disproportionate teacher layoffs on students» right to
equal educational opportunity under the California Constitution.
Schools as agents of society must
maximize equal educational opportunities for all students and facilitate constructive societal changes, which will promote respect for human rights and democratic principles as well as shared participation in decision making.