Sentences with phrase «funding discriminated against students»
Schools receiving Opportunity Scholarship funds discriminate against students on the basis of religion and sexual identity.
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Do students and taxpayer's really want their tuition or tax dollars funding any religious group, especially those that want to actively discriminate against people?
The 504 Plan takes its name from Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, a federal law that prohibits schools that receive federal funding from excluding or otherwise discriminating against a student with a «disability» solely on the basis of that disability.6 A «disability» under Section 504 is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act (ADAA) as a «physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more major life activities.»
According to a lawsuit filed by parents with the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, New York State has systematically discriminated against districts with black, Latino, and poor students by inadequately funding their education.
Ball also reported that officials with the N.C. School Boards Association have identified private schools across the state that openly discriminate against students and families despite receiving public funding, putting gay parents in the position of having their tax dollars paying for schools that have a policy of refusing admission to their children.
To provide charter schools these funds while still allowing them to, in effect, discriminate against these students is unconscionable.
Ignoring Connecticut's collapsing fiscal situation, the Governor and legislature actually handed the charter schools even more scarce public funds, even though those schools discriminate against Connecticut children by refusing to accept and educate their fair share of students who require special education services and those who aren't proficient in the English language and therefore need additional English language services.
At her confirmation hearing, DeVos refused to say whether she would deny federal funds to private schools that discriminate against students based on sexuality, race or special needs.
Washington's justification for discriminating against students like Michael, Rachael and Skyler is a pair of state constitutional provisions with dubious origins: «All schools maintained or supported wholly or in part by the public funds shall be forever free from sectarian control or influence.»
Order the defendants to cease using a funding system that does not provide adequate funding where students can meet state standards and which discriminates against low wealth districts; and
Order the defendants to create and maintain a constitutional school funding system that will enable all students to meet state academic standards and does not discriminate against low - wealth school district.
As the Trump administration seeks to expand school choice nationwide, the academy was thrust into the national spotlight last month as part of a heated debate over whether schools that receive money from taxpayer - funded vouchers can discriminate against certain groups of students, such as LGBT children or students with disabilities.
The truth is that Malloy has not announced a moratorium on additional charter schools until mechanisms are developed and put in place that will ensure that taxpayer funds are not being misused, wasted or stolen and that charter schools must not discriminate against Latinos, non-English speaking students and students with special educational needs.
As with Connecticut's privately owned, but publicly funded, charter schools in Bridgeport, (See Bridgeport Charter Schools Discriminate Against Connecticut Children), the charter schools in Hartford also refuse to accept and educate students who require help learning the English language and those who need special education services.
(3) Order the defendants to create and maintain a constitutional school funding system that will enable all students to meet state academic standards and does not discriminate against low - wealth school districts.»
The claim is just plain wrong when one considers that these privately - owned, but publicly - funded schools are consistently «creaming off» selected students from their communities and openly discriminating against Latinos, student who face English language barriers and students who require special education services.
More taxpayer funding for voucher schools that openly discriminate against LGBT students and parents
Without this amendment, we are discriminating against future students, because there will be no funds available for them to get an education.
Amy Price Garrison (BA» 79) and Frank M. Garrison Jr.,»79 (BA» 76) generously established the Amy and Frank Garrison Social Justice Law Fund to support Vanderbilt Law students providing services to or for the general benefit of individuals who may have been disenfranchised, dispossessed, discriminated against, or economically disadvantaged.