Sentences with phrase «for civil rights»

I'm Dan Losen, director of the Center for Civil Rights Remedies, an initiative at the Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles at the University of California - Los Angeles.

Democrats for Education Reform Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund The Education Trust Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights Under Law The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights League of United Latin American Citizens MALDEF (the Mexican American League Defense and Education Fund) Mental Health America NAACP NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc..

Many private schools do not want to be considered «recipients of federal financial assistance» out of concern that such a designation would make them subject to the onerous federal regulations and enforcement actions (such as those that fall under Title IX) of the federal civil rights agencies, including the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR).

But the case groaned back to life in 2006 when a group organized as the Greenville Parents Association filed a complaint with the Office for Civil Rights objecting to the district's use of race in student assignments.

C. Todd Jones, a deputy assistant secretary in the office for civil rights in the George W. Bush Administration, explained why this is so pernicious.

Racial disparities in suspensions begin as early as preschool, with black children comprising 18 percent of enrollment in preschools but 48 percent of preschool children experiencing one or more suspensions, according to the federal Office for Civil Rights.

Every class discusses the leader, who he was, and his role in the struggle for civil rights.

On June 16, the left - leaning ProPublica published a leaked memo from the Department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) explaining that the agency would no longer automatically turn individual complaints about sexual harassment into year - long investigations of the practices of an entire university or school district.

Russlynn Ali, the former assistant secretary for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Education, talks about the district where a black Kindergartener gets suspended for pulling a fire alarm while a white tenth grader does the same thing and gets off with a warning.

The President has yet to nominate anyone to serve as Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, preferring to appoint an «acting assistant secretary» in order to avoid the Senate confirmation process.

Actually, that's what many people on the left do claim, and that was the basis for the Obama Administration's 2014 Dear Colleague Letter on the topic, which gave the Office for Civil Rights (and Justice Department) the authority to investigate school districts based on racial disparities in discipline rates alone.

The Boston Renaissance Charter School has signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Education's office for civil rights that pledges to bring the school into compliance.

What's at stake if the Trump administration rolls back «Dear Colleague» directives issued by the Obama - era Office for Civil Rights?

Duncan's assistant secretaries for civil rights have also been busy bossing states and districts around with a shocking degree of arrogance and an assumption of power — especially on school discipline and school funding.

Following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Educations office for civil rights, the Dade County, Fla., district has agreed to review its discipline procedures and work to ensure that students of certain racial or ethnic backgrounds are not punished disproportionately.

Information on the number of minority teachers in each state is available from the Office for Civil Rights and the U.S. Department of Education.

He was a lifetime crusader for civil rights, but led a bitter strike in New York City that provoked charges of racism.

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has rolled back the regular practice of the education department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of probing further into civil rights complaints for evidence of larger, systemic violations.

In 2000, a federal district judge ruled that Arizona was violating this relatively obscure law, both by not spending enough on its Lau programs — a reference to a Supreme Court decision of 1974 and regulations of the federal Office for Civil Rights — and by failing to provide enough teachers, aides, classrooms, materials, and tutoring.

But they also said the policy, which has been rescinded by Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander, was under development before they arrived at the agency and was not initiated by the assistant secretary for civil rights, Michael L. Williams, who has been sharply criticized for it.

So the big questions for the yet - to - be-named assistant secretary for civil rights are these: Which «Dear Colleague»» letters should be targeted for revision?

Americans for a Fair Chance is a consortium of six of America's leading civil rights legal organizations, including the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., National Partnership for Women & Families, and the National Women's Law Center.

The Education Department's office for civil rights may take up a novel sexual - harassment case that it refused to pursue last year.

I would also expect the Trump folks to make quick changes at the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.

Beginning in 2011, however, the U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) began asking schools to provide basic information on enrollment in such programs and to break out that enrollment by racial and ethnic groups.

The study was required by the department's office for civil rights in return for dropping a complaint against the district's program for language - minority students.

Since 1968, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), an office of the Department of Education, has collected data from public schools on student and school characteristics to ensure all students have equal access to a quality education.

There the Education Department Office for Civil Rights (OCR), often teamed up with the Justice Department, has gone wild in pushing schools and districts around, via both formal regulations and menacing «dear colleague» letters, in far - flung realms from student discipline to bathroom access.

Officials at the Department of Education's office for civil rights have expanded a controversial draft guide outlining the proper use of high - stakes tests in an effort to better detail the legal principles involved and ways in which such issues will affect students.

In an op - ed in the Wall Street Journal, Shep Melnick analyzes a «Dear Colleague» letter about school funding sent out by the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights.

Washington — Secretary of Ed ucation Lauro F. Cavazos last week named Gilbert D. Roman, an official in the department's office for civil rights, to head the Bush Administration's Hispanic - education initiative.

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in 1979 created a three - pronged test to determine compliance with the law.

The U.S. Department of Education's office for civil rights notified the district this summer that it is in violation of federal law because of shortcomings in its program for educating limited - English - proficient students.

Then the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) decided to add a measure of chronic absenteeism — defined as the proportion of students missing 15 or more school days — in its 2013 - 14 Civil Rights Data Collection.

Prior to joining the faculty at HGSE, Pollock worked in the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights and taught English at the high school level.

Dan Losen is director of the Center for Civil Rights Remedies, an initiative at the Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles at the University of California - Los Angeles.

The National Women's Law Center has filed complaints with the Department of Education's office for civil rights alleging that the schools are violating Title IX, the 1972 law that bars sex discrimination at educational institutions receiving federal funds.

Because black and Hispanic youngsters are indeed «underrepresented» in the entering classes of the SHSAT high schools when compared with the youth demographics of New York City — and there's no denying that they are, just as white and especially Asian youngsters are «overrepresented» — the NAACP asserts that the test must be discriminatory and therefore the federal Office for Civil Rights should make the city stop using it.

Kennedy's recent opinions are also good news for the Office for Civil Rights (OCR).

She previously also worked in the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.

As the longest serving director of the governmental organization, she played important roles in creating high caliber career development programs for civil rights professionals to better serve the state's increasingly diverse population, and balanced aggressive enforcement of civil rights laws with the need to advance civil rights social collaboration.

Using the education department's Office for Civil Rights data, Miller estimates that about 37 percent of teachers are absent more than 10 days at district elementary and middle schools compared to 22 percent at charters.

Rather than nominating an assistant secretary for civil rights, the Trump administration avoided a confirmation battle by making Candice Jackson «acting assistant secretary.»

Rather than nominating an assistant secretary for civil rights, the White House avoided a confirmation battle by making Candice Jackson «acting assistant secretary.»

Based on a long line of court decisions and guidance handed down by the federal Office for Civil Rights, which administers both nondiscrimination statutes — the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 — a court would most likely defer to educational experts, uphold standards supported by evidence of the SAT's validity, reliability, and technical underpinnings, and find flagging not to be unlawful discrimination.

In the education department's 2009 — 10 report — assembled by its Office for Civil Rights from surveys of 57,000 schools — on average, half the teachers in the 208 Rhode Island schools surveyed were absent more than 10 days during the year, surpassing teacher absences in Hawaii, Arkansas, Oregon, and New Mexico by only a whisker.

This practice has long been considered legal under both case law and more than 25 years of guidance and rulings from the federal Office for Civil Rights.

A lawyer for the Education Department's office for civil rights in San Francisco recently decided to help the University of California rewrite its course catalog, with the aim of deleting allegedly sexist language.

And the school likely wouldn't have such classes, some teachers here say, if the U.S. Department of Education's office for civil rights hadn't forced the Salt Lake City district to bolster its services for English - learners in response to a complaint by a local activist in 2001.

But in 1970 the new head of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), J. Stanley Pottinger, saw his opportunity and took it.