Sentences with word «inequitable»

We urge the Governor to sign SB1 and end the era of inequitable funding of our schools.

More importantly, performance - driven funding will result in inequitable distribution of dollars.

Even proposing the resolution at a public meeting will get people talking about the lawsuit and the issue of inequitable school funding in Pennsylvania.

Unfortunately, budget cuts to education over the past decade have exacerbated what was already, in most states, a highly inequitable system for funding schools.

«It is common for white people to think of racism as overt, intentional acts of discrimination, failing to recognize the ways in which even well - intentioned behaviors can serve to reinforce racial stereotypes or otherwise result in inequitable treatment,» she says.

Although our initial goals for degree production in phase I HAMP (Heartland?s Alliance for Minority Participation) were achieved, we learned that — for a state with only a 12 % minority population and a history of inequitable treatment of minorities — we must deal with an additional dimension and set of challenges by customizing approaches to recruitment and training for our region.

They reflect the fundamental value of equitable inclusion in the legal system, and the need to respond to differences that result in inequitable access.

These rules will undoubtedly increase costs and risk of inequitable conduct on patent applicants which will decrease the incentive for investors to invest in innovation activities of all types.»

«Illinois has the most inequitable education funding system in the nation, where poorer districts spend as little as $ 6,000 per student while wealthier districts spend up to $ 30,000 per student,» Ostro said in a statement.

The Houston / Marshall plan calls to empower the individuals and communities most affected by inequitable outcomes to be at the center of the community driven solutions and interventions aimed to restore justice for poverty entrenched communities.

In doing so, it has developed a set of rules that ensure that charter schools eschew inequitable practices.

As inequitable distribution of wealth increases, democratic principles and humane ideology recedes.

«New York State has one of the most inequitable school funding systems in the nation, with school districts that serve large proportions of low - income students and students of color having on average fewer resources than districts that serve wealthier students.

Second is the challenge of skilled human resources, where an overall shortage was further compounded by inequitable distribution of skilled workers.

The dissenting Justice Pelletier of the Quebec Appeal Court is right: granting employers the right to waive notice of resignation leads to inequitable situations where employees risk losing their salary for the duration of the notice period merely because they wished to fulfil their duty to give reasonable notice of resignation to their employer.

Federal courts should insist that states design their education systems to accomplish the aims of the right to education — be they ending inequitable disparities in educational opportunity, preparing students to be competent voters and civic participants, or ensuring that students are equal citizens.

As inequitable tax burdens, increased government intrusion and expanded entitlement programs squeeze the life out of an anemic economy, retirees unable to survive on their retirement incomes are headed back to the work force.

Particular emphasis was placed on how inequitable funding for public schools can hamper efforts to boost academic outcomes and improve achievement among vulnerable student populations, as well as on exploring what could be done to change it.

Part 1, as colleague Nirvi Shah reported earlier this year, dealt mainly with inequitable access to experienced teachers, advanced courses, and other resources.

Maathai herself has put it like this: «We are sharing our resources in a very inequitable way.

There's no more inequitable social arrangement than the world Big Climate wants to impose on us.

Here in the United States, we have done the exact opposite and created a more inequitable system of education.

Desegregated schools, for example, can produce very inequitable outcomes for students or end up internally segregated.

It did not seem inequitable to focus on fathers, because there were already substantial local services for separated mums.

Although advocates from these communities have long complained about inequitable treatment by institutions such as the Children's Aid Society, there was no ability by these individuals to obtain the information to demonstrate a systemic problem.

If the leaders of our predominant culture choose to examine the way the currently unbridled political economy, now overspreading the surface of Earth, grows and the way it distributes Earth's resources, then perhaps they will find more reasonable and sensible ways to modify this obviously unfair and grossly inequitable economic system and, thereby, assure a good enough future for our children.

As we continue our pre-election examination of school finance policies, we focus on the second half of the Center for American Progress (CAP) report, The Stealth Inequities of School Funding: How State and Local School Finance Systems Perpetuate Inequitable Student Spending.

«While the executive's proposal falls far short of eliminating the GEA in [fiscal year] 2017, it will likely be looked at as inequitable because some districts had their GEA eliminated and some did not,» the Senate analysis said.

The Partnership welcomed its role as a defendant in order to have a seat at the table to ensure reforms were implemented to protect students from this and other such inequitable policies.

As traditionally practiced in southeast Asia, oil palm cultivation is responsible for widespread deforestation that reduces biodiversity, degrades important ecological services, worsens climate change, and traps workers in inequitable conditions sometimes analogous to slavery.

Underneath these swings is an unsustainable, inequitable economic model with serious political implications.

Others believe that a school is inherently inequitable if it closes its doors to any subset of the local population.

Teachers, parents, union leaders and even some school superintendents and board members in New York are clothed in blue to show their concern for what they see as an overemphasis on testing, an under - emphasis on state education funding, and inequitable spending between districts.

At a time of dire fiscal shortages, and suggested cuts to education and healthcare, it is critical to reform the system which creates the perverse incentives for politicians to pass such inequitable tax policies.

Once again, as often happens under the privately managed charter school model, underprepared teachers will end up in the poorest and neediest schools, thereby exacerbating the problem of inequitable educational outcomes for children living in poverty.

Next: The Stealth Inequalities of School Funding: How State and Local School Finance Systems Perpetuate Inequitable Student Spending

Failure to Disclose Declarant's Relationship to Assignee Sustained as a Basis for Inequitable Conduct

The board provides recommendations to the Governor, JCCPO, and the legislature regarding the implementation and impact of the act with a focus on the carbon tax impacts and avoiding inequitable effects on citizens and energy intensive trade exposed businesses.

Despite overwhelming odds, given inequitable charter funding and fast - paced reform - oriented timelines that all public schools are working to meet, Side by Side students are reaching achievement levels that guarantee they are on track to college and career readiness as they head toward high school.

But another point to keep in mind is that, while pater familias may be fading from our lives, we still live in a culture that is obsessed with power and in which many inequitable power structures — both formal and informal, spoken and unspoken — seek to divide us.

Justices presented the decision as the Legislature's one last chance to fix inequitable funding, quoting from a school finance bill passed this year, House Bill 2655, that lawmakers had hoped would clear court review.