Sentences with phrase «equity policy»

This past year, the district adopted one of only two active racial equity policies in the state.

However, our research suggests that equity policies did not significantly reduce the amount of parent donations.

He urged school board members to include racial equity policies in their strategic plans and to engage parents and the community in the work of systemic transformation of schools.

«By championing the County's Pay Equity policy for businesses that contract with Erie County he has been a leader in ensuring Erie County families benefit from the many advantages that are realized when women are paid equal to their male counterparts.

In other words, the DoJ's workplace equity policy for legal agents is Canada's own version of «don't ask, don't tell.»

«Employment equity policy in Canada: an inter-provincial comparison.»

To this end, agents must, as a condition of their appointment, comply with the requirements set out in this policy,» states the government's workplace equity policy for legal agents.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) offers local leaders an opportunity to work with stakeholders to shape their state's educational equity policy agenda.

This week's agenda includes: Tribute to teacher Janie Naranjo - Hall, update on Oakland Public School Pledge (formerly Equity Pledge), update on equity policy, update on Math in OUSD, civics instruction, charter renewal petition, and more...

More than half of the companies listed on the TSX have introduced equity policies, but the results are mixed at best

At 10 a.m., NYC Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras - Copeland, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, the Women's Caucus and advocates celebrate the passage of the nation's first menstrual equity policy to make pads and tampons free and readily available at public schools, homeless shelters and Department of Correction jails, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Faculty members and administrators at the University of Michigan were already evaluating equity policies, and the NSF award helped legitimize their efforts.

Oak Park Elementary School District 97 hosted a community conversation on its draft equity policy May 3.

Teams will assess current equity policies and practices using NYCLA's Equity Diagnostic tool and together will design a prototype solution.

Thesis title: Where Outreach Meets Outrage: Racial Equity policy formation at the Canada Council for the Arts (1989 - 1999)

Last month, GRID Alternatives Greater Los Angeles unveiled the Los Angeles Energy & Equity Policy Series (LEEPS) with our first symposium on multifamily solar.

In conducting research for Canadian Lawyer's special report on diversity, it became clear that most law firms did not think the federal government's equity policies even applied to legal agents.

(Things are different when it comes to judicial appointments throughout the system, where there are hundreds of positions and a robust equity policy is essential.)

State Early Childhood Health Equity Policy Efforts: Two Case Studies PowerPoint Presentation

ECIDA has implemented a recapture policy, pay equity policy, local labor policy and moved its location to create a one - stop shop of economic development agencies with the state and city.

Furthermore, many companies in Quebec and Ontario, where the aerospace industry is vibrant, are recipients of federally approved contracts and bound by the Federal Contractors Program to ensure compliance with the federal employment equity policy.

We aim to encourage a growing portion of the education policy community to break down barriers and advance sound educational equity policies and meaningful process, responsive to the needs of at - risk, under - served, and politically underrepresented students and their families.

The larger firms must also «have and implement a workplace equity policy and action plan» that meets Justice's criteria; and «collect and record information on the representation and employment status of designated group members within the firm in terms of hiring, promotion, and termination in relation to other employees, and on the measures taken by the firm to achieve workplace equity goals.»

Guidance for Child Welfare Administrators on Achieving Racial Equity Policy for Results, Center for the Study of Social Policy Provides guidance for child welfare administrators for finding the causes of disproportionality and developing policies on how to measure and improve preventive services, entries into care, placement type, length of stay, and permanency for children and families of color.

The pay - equity policy was championed by County Executive Mark Poloncarz as a way to make sure that men and women are paid equally for doing the same work — a widely studied issue across the country.

Within this role she led and facilitated the Race and Social Justice Initiative for the department and helped develop tools and an equity policy lens that city employees could use in their work.

«Today the ECIDA board approved the Pay Equity Policy that will force businesses that apply for ECIDA programs to duplicate work.

Erie County Legislator Edward A. Rath III has released the following statement opposing the Erie County Industrial Development Agency's Board of Directors» approval of a Pay Equity Policy that, as written, is redundant and burdensome for businesses.

The pay equity policy, pushed by Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz, is intended to make sure that companies receiving tax breaks through the Erie County IDA are complying with existing laws requiring that men and women receive equal pay for similar work.

The Erie County Industrial Development Agency has approved a mandate requiring any company that receives tax breaks or incentives must pay female employees equal rates as their male counterparts, if both are doing the same job or holding the same position.While the 15 ECIDA directors who were at the meeting support the pay equity policy, questions were raised about how it may be enforced.

ERIE COUNTY, NY — Today, Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz issued the following statement pursuant to the Erie County Industrial Development Agency's («ECIDA») board passage of a Pay Equity Policy to address wage discrimination in companies seeking inducements.

Fighting Institutional Racism Del Stover A Florida school board adopts a racial equity policy

He believes that this cultural shift goes a long way to fixing the problem, symbolized by the equity policy he helped get passed in Fairfax County Public Schools to ensure equity for every service enacted, including health care.

Dance said the district is working on an equity policy to ensure opportunity and access throughout the county.

Budget $ 2.0 million in Supplemental Allocations to high need schools via the Equity Resource Formula (or a similar criteria) and aligned with purposes identified in School Improvement Plans and consistent with the Strategic Plan and Equity Policy.

Budget $ 250,000 for improved data collection analysis and reporting as required in the Strategic Plan, TAG Plan, and Equity Policy, Literacy Education Evaluation and elsewhere.

The meeting was meant to collect feedback from the community to help inform the school board in its potential adoption of an equity policy.

Budget $ 2.0 million in Supplemental Allocations to high need schools via the Equity Resource Formula (or similar criteria) and aligned with purposes identified in School Improvement Plans and consistent with the Strategic Plan and Equity Policy.

Also, in its social inclusion and equity policies (e.g., gender equity, environmental sustainability, income inequality) the United States has an undistinguished rank of 20.

As well, law firms are required to have employment equity policies and report their statistics on gender, visible minorities, aboriginals, disabled people, and others to the NSBS if they want to work for the provincial government.

A number of firms have similar diversity and equity policies, but As Gail J. Cohen said in her article, these do not necessarily translate into active promotion of diversity and inclusion.

So far, that system doesn't seem to be working to encourage commitment to the equity policies the government espouses.

When firms sign on as legal agents, they agree to the employment equity policy but Beasleigh says essentially the DoJ has «relied on the integrity of firms to comply» with it.

A few said they had written diversity policies, but the majority did not have equity policies of any kind.