Sentences with phrase «for equal opportunity for all students»

This will expand the eligibility for the Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act to any student who has received an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) in the past five years.

HB 33 would expand the eligibility for the Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act to any student who has received an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) in the past five years.

Education Scholarship Accounts: HB 33 would expand the eligibility for the Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act to any student who has received an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) in the past five years.

Education Scholarship Accounts: The eligibility for the Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs program has been expanded to any student who has received an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) in the past five years.

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It is figures like these that have informed the urgency with which the government has pursued its Free SHS policy to address inequality and ensure equal opportunities for all students through the removal of cost barriers.

He spoke of teachers who overcame obstacles to create «equal» opportunities for their students, giving their very best in everything they did.

«We recognize that broadband service has become as essential as electricity and water and sewer for economic development and that if we want to attract high - tech jobs, if we want to provide students opportunities for education and provide equal access to services to people across the county, having high - speed broadband is absolutely critical at this point.»

There are also equal opportunities specialists at Uppsala University who promote the work for equal opportunities and against discrimination for students and staff.

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

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.»

It also addresses their emotional, physical, and developmental capacities, and schools should be held accountable for enhancing these and for connecting them to a student's opportunities for full participation in American life: economic self - sufficiency, equal opportunity, and independent living.

In this time of crisis, that means that we offer all students — those who are citizens and those who are not; those who believe in one God and those who do not; those whose beliefs allow them to pledge allegiance to the flag and those whose beliefs allow them to pledge allegiance only to God — equal opportunity to express their love for, and loyalty to, their country.

The school is determined to provide equal opportunities for people with Autism and equip students with a wealth of skills and knowledge through work related learning and employability events.

When he called for equal educational opportunity in the South, the test scores of African American students in southern states rose dramatically.

Much has changed since the fledgling Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE), 14 New York City community school boards, and 23 individual parents and their children lodged the initial complaint charging the State of New York with denying «thousands of public school students in the City of New York their constitutional rights to equal educational opportunities.»

From Eliot's perspective, high schools fulfilled the promise of equal opportunity for education by insisting that all students take the same types of rigorous academic courses.

Other provisions that lend a more credible basis to the view that inclusive education has been promoted in the Act, are provisions such as Section 28 which provides for designing and developing new assistive devices, teaching aids, special teaching materials and other such items necessary to provide «equal opportunities in education'to a child with disability; and clauses (f), (g), (h) of Section 29, which provides for suitable modification in the examination system through elimination of purely mathematical questions for the benefit of blind students and those with low vision (f); restructuring of curriculum for the benefit of children with disabilities (g); restructuring the curriculum for benefit of students with hearing impairment to facilitate them to take only one language as part of their curriculum (h).

Section 28 does provide for designing and developing new assistive devices, teaching aids, special teaching materials or other such items necessary to give a child with disability «equal opportunities in education», but it could be better worded to extend beyond just equal opportunities in curriculum and academics, to a totally interactive learning process, thereby implying the integration of all students, disabled and non-disabled.

«In a number of countries, since 2009 students have become more supportive of gender equality and equal opportunities for all ethnic and racial groups in society.

The second cycle of the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) has recorded an increase in student support of gender equality and equal opportunities for all ethnic and racial groups.

The second cycle of the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study has recorded an increase in student support of gender equality and equal opportunities for all ethnic and racial groups.

They say the results of their study suggest arranging seating in a semicircle in primary school «could lead to equal opportunities for everyone in the class» but caution that, when it comes to student participation, factors such as teacher personality and their teaching style shouldn't be ruled out.

The provision of challenging and play opportunities, which are fun for students, is of equal and growing importance.

Educators play a key role in engaging students with other participants in a modern and asynchronous way, encouraging them to respond to their questions by creating a learning community that will provide learners with equal opportunities for communication such as live lessons and interaction in the virtual environment (Maboe, 2017).

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 all.

«It also sets aside new money for investments in quality pre-kindergarten and for wraparound supports that help provide disadvantaged students equal opportunities to learn.»

«For far too long, these schools have continued to deny students an equal - education opportunity and have been struggling, and we need to take more dramatic steps to turn them around,» said Jason Snyder, deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Education.

The Secretary of Education approves plans, ensures state implementation through oversight and enforcement, and takes action when states fail to meet their obligations to close achievement gaps and provide equal educational opportunity for all students.

This bipartisan measure reauthorizes the 50 - year - old Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the nation's national education law and longstanding commitment to equal opportunity for all students.

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

«Educators must make their voices heard at all levels — at the local, district, state, and federal levels — to promote equal access to educational opportunities for all students,» said Deb Delisle, ASCD Executive Director and CEO.

Our mission is to achieve equal educational opportunity for every child through strong public schools that prepare all students to access and succeed in college.

9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Panel Discussion: View from the Classroom A panel discussion about ensuring equal opportunities for all students in magnet schools.

Plaintiffs» lawyers in the Reed lawsuit had argued that the disproportionately high percentage of layoffs at the middle schools — 70 percent of teachers at one school — violated students» constitutional right to an equal opportunity for an education.

Looking at the challenges effective teachers and leaders face every day, what would it really take to help them ensure every student in NC has the opportunities guaranteed to them in our state constitution of equal opportunity for a sound basic education?

We should make equal educational opportunity a federal civil right for all students.

With the passage of the Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act in 2015, Mississippi became the 3rd state to approve ESAs.

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We remain committed to fighting racism in all its forms and particularly in fighting for the schools and equal educational opportunities that all students deserve.

The ultimate goal of RTI then, is to help us realize the dream and promise of American education by giving every student an equal opportunity for meaningful learning.

Press Release: Equal Opportunity For All Students Act Clears House Committee FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: FEBRUARY 18, 2016 RIDGELAND, MISSISSIPPI — The Equal Opportunity For All Students Act, HB 943, has passed the House Education Committee today and will now head to the House Appropriations Committee for consideratiFor All Students Act Clears House Committee FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: FEBRUARY 18, 2016 RIDGELAND, MISSISSIPPI — The Equal Opportunity For All Students Act, HB 943, has passed the House Education Committee today and will now head to the House Appropriations Committee for consideratiFor All Students Act Clears House Committee FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: FEBRUARY 18, 2016 RIDGELAND, MISSISSIPPI — The Equal Opportunity For All Students Act, HB 943, has passed the House Education Committee today and will now head to the House Appropriations Committee for consideratiFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: FEBRUARY 18, 2016 RIDGELAND, MISSISSIPPI — The Equal Opportunity For All Students Act, HB 943, has passed the House Education Committee today and will now head to the House Appropriations Committee for consideratiFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: FEBRUARY 18, 2016 RIDGELAND, MISSISSIPPI — The Equal Opportunity For All Students Act, HB 943, has passed the House Education Committee today and will now head to the House Appropriations Committee for consideratiFor All Students Act, HB 943, has passed the House Education Committee today and will now head to the House Appropriations Committee for consideratiFor All Students Act, HB 943, has passed the House Education Committee today and will now head to the House Appropriations Committee for consideratifor consideratifor consideration.

In 2015, with the strong leadership and backing of Gov. Phil Bryant, Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves and House Speaker Philip Gunn, the state Legislature passed the Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act.

«We must recognize that different colleges provide different experiences for students, and, if we as a society value equal opportunity as we say we do, it's critical that Colorado's low - income students have the same access to elite colleges as their wealthier peers,» said Van Schoales, CEO of A + Denver.

Special Needs ESA Enters Second Year June 28, 2016 by Brett Kittredge The Equal Opportunity For Students With Special Needs program enters its second year this fall as we look back on a successful first year of a program that is changing lives for students across the staFor Students With Special Needs program enters its second year this fall as we look back on a successful first year of a program that is changing lives for students across thStudents With Special Needs program enters its second year this fall as we look back on a successful first year of a program that is changing lives for students across the stafor students across thstudents across the state.

Support Educators for Excellence through a tax - deductible donation and help teachers identify pressing issues that impact their profession, create solutions to shared challenges, and advocate for policies and programs that give all students an equal opportunity to receive a quality education.

2015: A Great Year For Children In Mississippi December 21, 2015 by Brett Kittredge As we prepare to close the book on 2015, we can look back on a great year for children in Mississippi that included passage of the Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act, the opening of the first two charter schools in the state, and the election of stronger education reform majorities in the state legislatuFor Children In Mississippi December 21, 2015 by Brett Kittredge As we prepare to close the book on 2015, we can look back on a great year for children in Mississippi that included passage of the Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act, the opening of the first two charter schools in the state, and the election of stronger education reform majorities in the state legislatufor children in Mississippi that included passage of the Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act, the opening of the first two charter schools in the state, and the election of stronger education reform majorities in the state legislatufor Students with Special Needs Act, the opening of the first two charter schools in the state, and the election of stronger education reform majorities in the state legislature.

[1] ESSA's website claims that the law «Advances equity by upholding critical protections for America's disadvantaged and high - need students» and that it is committed «to equal opportunity for all students.»

Update On Special Needs Bill March 19, 2015 by Grant Callen Last week, Senate Bill 2695, the Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act, passed the House of Representatives with a strong bi-partisan majority.

Special Needs ESA Bill Headed To Governor March 26, 2015 by Grant Callen Today, by a vote of 30 - 18, the Mississippi Senate voted to concur (agree) with the House of Representatives on Senate Bill 2695, the Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act.

The measure, called the Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act, is before the Legislature again this year.