Sentences with phrase «of equal educational opportunity»

Despite the American promise of equal educational opportunity for all students, persistent achievement gaps among more and less advantaged groups of students remain, along with the opportunity gaps that create disparate outcomes.

The pursuit of equal educational opportunity is a serious matter, and good people can differ on the right strategies.

That had to stop because it deprived children of equal educational opportunity when some districts couldn't afford to fund their children as well as others.

As long as the Stull Act remains unenforced in numerous districts throughout the state, our students will continue to suffer and California will fail to live up to its promise of equal educational opportunity for all.

This is a very good decision for those of us who have long claimed that state educational funding laws have deprived students of an equal educational opportunity.»

Section 402 of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 is short, just a paragraph long, but it demanded something huge: The federal government had to conduct a nationwide survey «concerning the lack of availability of equal educational opportunities for individuals by reason of race, color, religion, or national origin.»

In 1973, the US Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the failure of schools to respond to the language characteristics of LEP children was a denial of equal educational opportunity (Lau vs. Nichols, 1973).

There's a labor - history professor and former Peace Corps volunteer pressing a traditional liberal agenda of equal educational opportunity.

Recent statistics make it clear that black people are still struggling to enjoy the fruits of equal educational opportunity, despite the gains since Brown.

We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other «tangible» factors may be equal, deprive the children of the minority group of equal educational opportunities?

The nub of his book's conclusion is that «separating the poor and politically powerless in their own schools and districts is antithetical to the idea of equal educational opportunity.»

In Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U. S. 483 (1954)(Brown I), we held that segregation deprived black children of equal educational opportunities regardless of whether school facilities and other tangible factors were equal, because government classification and separation on grounds of race themselves denoted inferiority.

We must begin today, in 2003, to make the changes that will transform American public education so that it can deliver on the democratic ideal of equal educational opportunity for students in 2013 and 2023.

In this sad time, all of us in CCJEF rededicate ourselves to ensuring that her dream of equal educational opportunity is realized.»

So when I look at the cause of equal educational opportunity in 2010, I ask: How do we maximize freedom and opportunity in schools and communities where low - income black and brown children, and students with disabilities, still are treated unequally?

The notion of equal educational opportunity was explained clearly by Kansas Judge Terry Bullock in a 2003 school funding decision: «If a child lives a great way from school, the transportation cost for that child will be greater than for another child nearer to school — just to provide him or her the same educational opportunity.

This morning, Secretary Arne Duncan reaffirmed the Department of Education's commitment to that vision of equal educational opportunity.

More than 50 years after the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education, the nation's schools are still plagued by inequalities, yet the High Court today declines to intervene on behalf of equal educational opportunity for all children.

The Goldwater Institute, the Foundation for Excellence in Education, the Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options, and the American Federation for Children argue that the Blaine Amendments were «motivated by bigotry» and «present an obstacle to the provision of high - quality educational opportunities for millions of American schoolchildren» that must be removed in order «to vindicate our nation's sacred promise of equal educational opportunities.»

[3] On the other hand, it has been far from inclusive of the state's large population of nonnative English speakers and has a long way to go before reaching its goal of equal educational opportunity for all students.

It's been half a century since Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote that the court believed segregation not only deprived minority children of equal educational opportunities, but also generated in them «a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.»

In 1996, the Supreme Court determined that racial isolation in Hartford was depriving students of equal educational opportunities (Sheff v. O'Neill), ultimately leading the state to build more magnet schools in Hartford.

More than 50 years after the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the nation's public school system has yet to fulfill its promise of equal educational opportunity for all.

If LCFF is implemented in a manner that prioritizes investments in addressing the needs of low income, English Learner, and foster youth students, it could help to fulfill Brown's promise of equal educational opportunities for all.

Eidmann also said in the ruling Hernandez «recognized that students at Jefferson are being deprived of their equal educational opportunities that they are constitutionally entitled to because of the amount of learning time they have lost and are continuing to lose.»