Sentences with phrase «families equal access»

District and charter partners in Camden, NJ, have implemented a new enrollment process designed to give families equal access to schools across the city through a neutral, unified system, while also guaranteeing a spot at their neighborhood school.

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They ranged from raising the minimum wage, passing gun safety laws, paid family leave, equal pay for women, and protecting access to «safe and legal abortions.»

RESOLVE «The National Infertility Association, established in 1974, is a non-profit organization with the only established, nationwide network mandated to promote reproductive health and to ensure equal access to all family building options for men and women experiencing infertility or other reproductive disorders.»

«New York leads the nation in creating equal opportunity for all, and we will continue to work to ensure that access to a college degree is not determined by family finances but rather is available to all who work hard and dream big.»

«These women are leading the fight to protect middle class families by raising the minimum wage, ensuring equal pay for equal work, protecting funding for Planned Parenthood, women's health care access, and reproductive rights,» Matthews said of the endorsements in a statement.

Families in the community see the school providing equal access and opportunity for their children.

2.3 by 2030 double the agricultural productivity and the incomes of small - scale food producers, particularly women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets, and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment

By giving these schools true control over their programs, staff, and curricula, and by opening them to all families, authors of the charter school law resurrected the true American vision of public schooling: equal access to great instruction and accountability for results.

While intra / inter-district transfer programs and magnet schools present more choices to families, it is important to consider the following key features adopted from a recent research brief by Kara S. Finnigan and Jennifer Jellison Holme to ensure equal access and equity of participation.

Denver and other Colorado school districts should be capitalizing on the benefits of socio - economic integration for all students by supporting similar policies that ensure equal access to quality schools for all students regardless of their family income or value of their home.

Whenever possible, teachers and families are trained together to promote partnering through equal access to information and to build a sense that everyone is working as a team to support students.

Expanding school choice programs like the Special Needs ESA would provide equal access to all families.

To achieve equal access to knowledge and skill development for all students, regardless of background, race, or gender, resources must be adequate for the specific needs and circumstances of students and their families.

Joining forces with Students Matter to help families from Bridgeport and Hartford file a groundbreaking federal lawsuit, Martinez v Malloy, on behalf of their children to ensure that all kids have equal access to a quality education.

She helps ensure equal access to services leading for improvement for all children, particularly children from low - income families.

In accordance with three sections of Title I, Part A, of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), each state education agency (SEA) is required to submit a plan to the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to ensure that all students have equal access to a quality education, regardless of race, ethnicity, or family income.

All students, regardless of income, family background or geography, should have equal access to a world - class education that will prepare them for success after high school.

Prior to that, she worked for Families for Excellent Schools, a parent and charter advocacy group in New York City that fights to ensure all kids have fair and equal access to a great education.

And choice is a powerful tool for families seeking educational equity and equal access to quality education for their children.

All members have equal access to our products and services and, as a member, your immediate family members (i.e., mother, father, brother, sister, spouse, and children) are eligible to take advantage of these benefits too.

With the signup bonus and other benefits like air travel credit, you can get a minimum of $ 1,300 during your first membership year ($ 500 air travel credit and 50,000 ThankYou points equal to $ 800 airfare with American / US Airways) and enjoy Lounge access for you and your family.

I would like to see equal access to effective legal representation, greater resources for family law courts which are overburdened and greater civility and cooperation among lawyers.

In particular, we have the benefit of the CBA's Envisioning Equal Justice Summit and report and the final report of the National Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family matters.

FMRC's mandate is to provide low and middle - income families who are experiencing divorce, separation or other potentially difficult life transitions, with affordable and equal access to dispute resolution alternatives.

Funded by the non-profit Legal Services Corporation, NJP works to create fair and equal access to justice for low - income individuals and families.

As an active community member, Laura work tirelessly to ensure that all families, especially those financially vulnerable ones, have equal access to dispute resolution processes.

Through education and advocacy, we will continue to make progress to achieve equal access to justice for low - income families and individuals in our state.

How our government and we, as a society, address the issues that confront people with disabilities and their families — from transportation, to employment, to education, to full and equal access to services — defines us as a people.

Equal access to a civil and family justice system that can uphold rights and fairly and effectively resolve disputes is a fundamental and far - reaching component of democratic societies.

Pretty much every report on self - represented litigants, from the work of the Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family to the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters to the CBA's Envisioning Equal Justice Initiative to the National Self - represented Litigants Project, agrees that the cost of legal representation is the number one barrier to accessible justice.

That's why West Coast LEAF is going to court to defend women's right to fair and equal access to the family law system in the aftermath of relationship violence.

In some cases, a family law attorney can assist a parent in negotiating an agreement that provides for roughly equal access where possible.

We believe that equal access to justice for families and individuals who have nowhere else to turn is critical and that everyone should have access to the legal services and legal remedies — regardless of their ability to pay.

The court's stated objective is a good one, and it applies with equal pertinence to anyone embroiled in family litigation involving custody and access issues.

«This new federal funding will help so many families by supporting the great work local organizations are doing to protect equal access to housing for everyone in Massachusetts.»

-- Enabling parenting coordination by agreement or court order; — Amending the Commercial Arbitration Act to address family arbitrations; — integrating reproductive technologies into determining a child's legal parents; — Replacing the terms «custody» and «access» with «guardianship» and «parenting time»; — Defining «guardianship» through a list of «parental responsibilities» that can be allocated to allow for more customized parenting arrangements; — Extending the legislative property division regime to common - law spouses who have lived together for two years in a marriage - like relationship or who are in marriage - like relationship of some permanence and have children together; — Excluding certain types of property (e.g. pre-relationship property, gifts, and inheritances) from the pool of family property to be divided 50 - 50; and — Providing that debts are subject to equal division.

In 2002 the Equality Authority called for equal access to civil marriage, and for equality in other relevant areas of family law, for same - sex couples.

«One of the basic tenets of our system of government is equal access to justice,» said Shawn Weber, attorney and member of the Collaborative Family Law Group of San Diego.

CLSW believes all families, regardless of financial circumstances, should have equal access to legal and social work services in order to remain stable and secure.

REYN strives for equal access to high - quality early childhood development (ECD) services for Romani and Traveller children and families.

The intervening years have resulted in a series of studies which unequivocally show that a child who has equal access to both parents has superior outcomes in most situations, says Colman, principal of Gene C. Colman Family Law Centre.

It would establish equal shared parenting as a starting point for parents and courts to use as they work toward a solution, typically in the range of 35 % to 50 % in residential access of the child to each parent, according to the unique circumstances of each family.

So it shouldn't be a big surprise that he wants Attorney General Wally Oppal to amend the Family Relations Act to recognize that fathers have equal rights as parents in custody, access, and guardianship.

Partner with states and local communities to help ensure equal education opportunity and excellence in early childhood education programs and to ensure that children and their families have access to programs, services and supports that promote health, nutrition, economic independence and stability, and social competencies;

Understanding the intersection of immigration laws and laws governing federal funding for child care is critical to ensuring children from immigrant families receive equal access to quality child care.

Break down the family unit, make laziness and dependence a better option than working (it would equal the same $) and restrict their access to real food thus pumping them full of sugar, salt, msg, gmos and no vitamins / minerals.