Sentences with phrase «gross inequities»

Attorneys from the Education Law Center and the Public Interest Law Center cited gross inequities in school funding among the state's school districts, to argue that the state's current school funding system violates the state Constitution's requirement that the state legislature «support and maintain» a «thorough and efficient system of public education.»

The strange opacity of certain empirical events, the dumb senselessness of intense or inexorable pain, and the enigmatic unaccountability of gross inequity all raise the uncomfortable suspicion that perhaps the world, and hence man's life in the world, has no genuine order at all — no empirical regularity, no emotional form, no moral coherence.

Perhaps it is time to debate whether such gross inequity is a sin and if we should allow ourselves to continue to grow richer while our neighbors are so poor.

But even if they were, given the great differences between capitalist systems, it does not seem reasonable to blame capitalism in general if a particular type of capitalist system encourages gross inequities.

«[W] e have gross inequities across the system... Will Governor Cuomo continue to punt on fully funding all of New York's public schools while children still don't have adequate resources?

Yassine's dedication to working on literacy problems both real and theoretical led her to a collaboration between a group of HGSE students and the litigants of the first federal case asserting a right to literacy based on gross inequity in Detroit Public Schools (DPS) that culminated in an on - campus event where parents, teachers, and students from DPS led a conversation.

By contrast, the prior formula divided resources by schools, based on standard entitlements for certain staff positions, creating gross inequities among large and small schools.

Down through the socialist tradition, the argument repeatedly has been made that capitalism results in gross inequities, and that socialism can do away with such foolishness.

Even if the global community surmounted these barriers of gross inequity, and then shrugged off the albatross of rising populations, stabilising global emissions would not prevent disruption of the climate.

Marx, who is a noted futurist and scholar, goes on to write, «Gross inequity will be increasingly seen as unfair, unconscionable, and unsustainable.»

But gross inequity is what many schools and principals contend with.

Gross inequity is a challenge many principals and schools are forced to contend with.

Committed education advocates in Oakland recognize the gross inequity in schools and are working hard to address it.

The contrary principle contended for by Mr. Manning, that a jury may be encouraged to ignore a law it does not like, could lead to gross inequities.