Sentences with phrase «equal educational opportunity»

We need folks willing to roll up their sleeves and fight for equal educational opportunities for those kids.

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.

Because it is the most effective way to ensure that your school district provides equal educational opportunities for all students to participate in the making of music!

A better understanding of the law will enhance your leadership capacity and help promote equal educational opportunity in your school.

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.

We should make equal educational opportunity a federal civil right for all students.

In other words, offering equal educational opportunity means truly leaving no child behind.

Our mission is to achieve equal educational opportunity for every child through strong public schools that prepare all students to access and succeed in college.

If the goal is to provide truly equal educational opportunities to all children, then opportunity is what we should measure and lack of opportunity what we should seek to remedy.

It's because equal educational opportunity is common sense and because it's the right thing to do.

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

This is especially true of education where there are all sorts of reasons to expect market failures and where equal educational opportunity is a key objective.

I'm not sure we understand what equal educational opportunity means.

The pursuit of equal educational opportunity is a serious matter, and good people can differ on the right strategies.

The educational leader acknowledges that he or she serves the schools and community by providing equal educational opportunities to each and every child.

Children of illegal immigrants should not be denied access to equal educational opportunities in public schools.

Such knowledge is essential if we are to reduce disproportionate representation and offer equal educational opportunity to all American students.

High - quality charter schools exemplifying progressive values by providing historically underserved students with equal educational opportunity deserve our support.

«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.

Educational choice brings people together and creates equal educational opportunity for children.

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.

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

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.

Schools can not embrace high standards for all students without addressing the barriers that prevent many students from equal educational opportunity.»

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.

Mr. Kirp was the founding director of the Harvard Center for Law and Education, which filed landmark lawsuits seeking 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-.

That had to stop because it deprived children of equal educational opportunity when some districts couldn't afford to fund their children as well as others.

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.

Inequality in education prevents the nation from fulfilling its potential, and ensuring equal educational opportunity remains one of the civil rights movement's top priorities.

Now, President Kennedy's tests for equal educational opportunity still stand the test of time, even as they have been modified by court decisions and public policies.