Sentences with phrase «important educational alternative»

400,000 students, or approximately 15 percent of all students in New York State attend nonpublic schools which provide an important educational alternative in virtually every corner of New York State — and especially so in communities where the existing public schools are failing.

400,000 students, or approximately 15 percent of all students in New York State attend nonpublic schools, providing an important educational alternative in virtually every corner of New York State — and especially so in communities where the existing public schools are failing.

Not exact matches

Under the new OCR rules, once federal officials determine that the distribution of any resource disadvantages a protected minority, the district must demonstrate that its policy is «necessary to meet an important educational goal» and that no «comparably effective alternative» is available.

Who determines what constitutes an «important educational goal» and an «effective alternative»?

The guidelines are unsurprisingly short on what could count as an important educational goal and what policies might be suitable alternatives.

Schools would then have to justify their policies by proving to investigators that they were «necessary to meet an important educational goal» and that there was no «comparatively effective alternative policies or practices» that they could use instead.

In the education context, this subjective test grants almost complete control to federal regulators to decide what constitutes an «important educational goal» and a «comparably effective alternative.»

If policies did result in disproportionality — and thus had an adverse impact on certain groups of students — schools would have to justify them by proving to the Department of Education that their policies were «necessary to meet an important educational goal» and that there's no «comparatively effective alternative policies or practices» that the schools could use instead.

Under this «disparate impact analysis,» once federal officials determine that the distribution of any resource disadvantages a protected minority, schools must not only «demonstrate that the policy or practice is necessary to meet an important educational goal,» but also show that there is no «comparably effective alternative policy or practice that would meet the school district's stated educational goal with less of a discriminatory effect.»

If the policy is necessary to meet an important educational goal, then are there comparably effective alternative policies or practices that would meet the school's stated educational goal with less of a burden or adverse impact on the disproportionately affected racial group?