Sentences with phrase «equality act agenda»

Last year we proposed a ten - point women's equality act agenda.

Catholic teaching on abortion, transsexuality and gender also contravenes the Equalities Act agenda.

Not exact matches

In reality what this will mean more ground conceded to the government's «Equalities» agenda: the guidelines state that schools will have to demonstrate not only that they do not contravene the 2010 Equalities Act but that they «actively promote» and support it.

Officials were already pitching the plan as a continuation of Cuomo's «progressive» agenda for New York, which the governor counts as including a sharp rise in the minimum wage, the marriage equality law and stronger gun control provisions known as the SAFE Act.

With just one week left in the New York State legislative session, press outlets are predicting that few big - ticket issues, such as public campaign financing, the women's equality agenda, medical marijuana or the Dream Act, will be resolved.

«Even in New York, the birthplace of the Women's Rights Movement, we've felt the impact of the assault of women's equality when just this year, the New York State Senate refused to act on the Women's Equality Agenda.»

Mandle, of Hamilton, said the Independent Democratic Conference has enabled Senate Republicans to stay in power and block legislation she supports, including public funding of elections, the women's equality agenda, the DREAM ACT and an increase in the minimum wage.

His slide began shortly after his State of the State message, where he outlined a progressive agenda, including a women's equality act that included an abortion rights provision, public financing of political campaigns, and strict new gun control laws.

The governor rehashed his first - term accomplishments and promised to push for a women's equality agenda (complete with abortion law changes), public campaign finance and the Dream Act, which extends tuition assistance ot undocumented immigrants.

Cuomo also used the act as a justification last year for his creation of the Women's Equality Party, a new political entity he said could convince recalcitrant Republican lawmakers to enact the controversial abortion plank of the equality agenda, if only the party received enough votes on its line.

Concerns about this disparity eventually led to the passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 — a law that took the equality agenda of the Great Society and projected it onto America's K - 12 schools.