Schools receiving Opportunity Scholarship
funds discriminate against students on the basis of religion and sexual identity.
Not exact matches
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.