Sentences with phrase «equal educational opportunity as»

(e) The board shall establish the information needed in an application for the approval of a charter school; provided that the application shall include, but not be limited to, a description of: (i) the mission, purpose, innovation and specialized focus of the proposed charter school; (ii) the innovative methods to be used in the charter school and how they differ from the district or districts from which the charter school is expected to enroll students; (iii) the organization of the school by ages of students or grades to be taught, an estimate of the total enrollment of the school and the district or districts from which the school will enroll students; (iv) the method for admission to the charter school; (v) the educational program, instructional methodology and services to be offered to students, including research on how the proposed program may improve the academic performance of the subgroups listed in the recruitment and retention plan; (vi) the school's capacity to address the particular needs of limited English - proficient students, if applicable, to learn English and learn content matter, including the employment of staff that meets the criteria established by the department; (vii) how the school shall involve parents as partners in the education of their children; (viii) the school governance and bylaws; (ix) a proposed arrangement or contract with an organization that shall manage or operate the school, including any proposed or agreed upon payments to such organization; (x) the financial plan for the operation of the school; (xi) the provision of school facilities and pupil transportation; (xii) the number and qualifications of teachers and administrators to be employed; (xiii) procedures for evaluation and professional development for teachers and administrators; (xiv) a statement of equal educational opportunity which shall state that charter schools shall be open to all students, on a space available basis, and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, creed, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, special need, proficiency in the English language or academic achievement; (xv) a student recruitment and retention plan, including deliberate, specific strategies the school will use to ensure the provision of equal educational opportunity as stated in clause (xiv) and to attract, enroll and retain a student population that, when compared to students in similar grades in schools from which the charter school is expected to enroll students, contains a comparable academic and demographic profile; and (xvi) plans for disseminating successes and innovations of the charter school to other non-charter public schools.

The teacher layoffs at Gompers, Liechty and Markham denied students their right to equal educational opportunity as guaranteed by the state Constitution.

When the courts ruled that seniority - based layoffs at these schools denied students their right to equal educational opportunity as guaranteed by the state constitution, many hard - core unionists were infuriated.

The lawsuit argues that students at schools like Markham have been denied their constitutional right to equal educational opportunities as a result of the layoffs.

Not exact matches

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).

As an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and its affiliates administer all educational and employment activities without discrimination or based on any protected characteristics such as race, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or Veteran status (except where sex is a bona fide occupational qualification or a statutory requirement) in accordance with all local, state, national laws, Executive Order 11246, Executive Order 13496, the Vietnam Era Veterans» Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, as amended, 38 U.S.C. 4214 (VEVRAA) and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (29 U.S.C. 7903), regulations, and guidelineAs an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and its affiliates administer all educational and employment activities without discrimination or based on any protected characteristics such as race, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or Veteran status (except where sex is a bona fide occupational qualification or a statutory requirement) in accordance with all local, state, national laws, Executive Order 11246, Executive Order 13496, the Vietnam Era Veterans» Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, as amended, 38 U.S.C. 4214 (VEVRAA) and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (29 U.S.C. 7903), regulations, and guidelineas race, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or Veteran status (except where sex is a bona fide occupational qualification or a statutory requirement) in accordance with all local, state, national laws, Executive Order 11246, Executive Order 13496, the Vietnam Era Veterans» Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, as amended, 38 U.S.C. 4214 (VEVRAA) and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (29 U.S.C. 7903), regulations, and guidelineas amended, 38 U.S.C. 4214 (VEVRAA) and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (29 U.S.C. 7903), regulations, and guidelineas amended (29 U.S.C. 7903), regulations, and guidelines.

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.

Not long after Brown, the courts began backing away from desegregation as a means toward equal educational opportunity.

However, as the gap between the incomes of wealthy and poor families has increased over the past three decades, so too has the educational performance of their children, bringing into question the nation's reputation for equal opportunity for all.

Education federalism has served as a consistent roadblock to federal efforts to remove barriers to equal educational opportunities for low - income and minority students.

It could find that the equal protection clause prohibits wide within - state disparities in educational opportunity that disadvantage some students because they live in a property - poor district, as Justice Thurgood Marshall argued in his Rodriguez dissent.

Equal opportunity in choosing a school A recent Wall Street Journal editorial had it right in criticizing civil rights groups like the NAACP for not jumping on the educational choice bandwagon since, as the Journal says, «reform's main beneficiaries are poor and minority students in places like Harlem and New Orleans.»

Or would «equal educational opportunity» require even more unequal spending, as Professors Ogletree and Robinson argue in their companion essay?

This set him apart from his more - liberal colleagues, who viewed Brown v. Board of Education (1954) not as a prohibition on the use of racial classifications in education, but rather as a mandate for judges to do whatever they could to promote «equal educational opportunity.»

To do this, we need to think about schools as places that teach students themselves to take on the civil rights struggle, not just as academies that prepare students passively to receive the benefits — equal educational opportunities, equal content knowledge and skills — that the struggle confers.

The aim of racial integration of our schools should be recognized as distinct from the aim of providing equal opportunity for educational performance.

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.

Part of the historic extension of equal educational opportunity rights to the disabled, Public Law 94 - 142, the Education of All - Handicapped Children Act, now known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), was one of the most popular pieces of federal education legislation ever enacted.

Wyoming has utilized the Future Ready Framework as the backbone of the states Digital Learning Plan, which outlines best practices in providing equal access to quality educational opportunities through technology.

As long as the Stull Act remains unenforced in numerous districts throughout the state, our students will continue to suffer and California will fail to live up to its promise of equal educational opportunity for alAs long as the Stull Act remains unenforced in numerous districts throughout the state, our students will continue to suffer and California will fail to live up to its promise of equal educational opportunity for alas the Stull Act remains unenforced in numerous districts throughout the state, our students will continue to suffer and California will fail to live up to its promise of equal educational opportunity for all.

«The ultimate issue is whether funding is provided to each school in the district so as to provide equal educational opportunity for all students.»

«The continued commitment of the federal government to equal educational opportunity is more important than ever as states and LEAs face historic budget shortfalls for the foreseeable future,» the group wrote.

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 liaison is responsible for ensuring that activities with other agencies are coordinated with school personnel; students in temporary housing have full and equal opportunity to succeed in school; and provide public notice of the educational rights is disseminated where to receive services such as schools, family shelters and soup kitchens.

As secretary of education, DeVos is responsible for meeting the department's mission to «[s] trengthen the Federal commitment to assuring access to equal educational opportunity for every individual.»

Their involvement, as well as the 1993 ruling in McDuffy v. Roberson ordering the Commonwealth to provide equal educational opportunities for all students in Massachusetts, led to the passage of the Education Reform Act of 1993.

The school as an extension of those principles must provide an equal educational opportunity for all children to develop to their fullest potential.

«As a rule of thumb, for a state finance system to provide equal educational opportunity, that system must ensure sufficiently higher resources in higher need settings than in lower need settings,» says Sciarra.

15:20 Dr. Montecel closes her speech: «The Quality Schools Action Framework speaks to the need and possibility of engaging citizens, leaders and policymakers around high quality data that call all of us as members of the community to act, to establish common ground, to strengthen education, and finally and most importantly and fundamentally, to align our values with our investments in the school system: fundamentals and features that we know are needed — from teaching quality, to engaged students, engaged parents and families, and a high quality, authentic curriculum so that students in every neighborhood and of every background can in fact have equal educational opportunities.»

She noted that the State of Texas and the Texas Education Agency must meet their responsibility to «ensure that school districts are providing equal educational opportunity in all schools» as required by the court.

«The injunction granted by a conscientious and courageous judge establishes the principle that government may not deny children their right to equal educational opportunity by disproportionately laying off teachers in communities such as Watts and Pico - Union.

First, public school choice programs (such as charter and interdistrict magnet schools) in Connecticut are all required by Connecticut law to provide children with an equal educational opportunity and to reduce racial, ethnic, and economic isolation of students (except technical schools).

According to the judge's reading of the law, as long as public school students got classrooms with desks, chairs, air to breathe, a teacher, textbooks, and a curriculum, the State had fulfilled most of its obligation to provide an equal educational opportunity.

However, it is only through well - reasoned and carefully implemented educational plans and programs that we may, as Americans, truly realize equal opportunity in education.

Several Los Angeles parents had sued the district, saying that failure to use student test scores in teacher evaluations, as they argued a state law known as the Stull Act required, was violating their children's» rights to equal educational opportunity.

Few civil rights are as central to the cause of human freedom as equal educational opportunity.

«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.

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.

«We applaud the voters yesterday whose voices spoke loud and clear as they demanded leaders who embrace equal educational opportunity.

These improvements are necessary at all phases of the assessment process, but as this study indicates, the present policy is likely denying services these student need and violating the rights of these students to an equal educational opportunity.

TheMorrigan, dismissing proven to be unqualified personnel could be construed as viewing teachers as disposable or it could be viewed as good employment practice, particularly if one have ethics as concerns a student's right to equal educational opportunity.

However, years of statewide assessments have failed to significantly close that gap; in fact, as income inequality grows across the state, the student achievement gap continues, pointing out the lack of fairness and access for all Connecticut's students to equal educational opportunities.

As educational institutions, they are achieving their unique missions while inspiring and empowering charter school leaders to achieve long - term stability and excellence thereby reshaping public education in Utah so every child has an equal opportunity to achieve academic success.

Applicants should provide evidence that their approaches address environmental circumstances such as local achievement gaps, the brief said, and charter authorizers should factor «equal educational opportunity» concerns into renewal standards.

All activities must be in compliance with Equal Employment Opportunity laws, HIPAA, ERISA, and other regulations, as appropriate.General requirements Performs all job responsibilities in alignment with the core values, mission and vision of the organization Performs other duties as required and completes all job functions as per departmental policies and procedures Maintains current knowledge in present areas of responsibility (i.e., self education, attends ongoing educational programs) Attends staff meetings and completes mandatory in - services and requirements and competency evaluations on time.

On behalf of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC), can I welcome you to the launch of Us Taken - Away Kids — a magazine commemorating ten years since the Bringing them home report was released — as well as the updated Bringing them home online educational resources.