Sentences with phrase «of equal opportunity for»

The University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, religion, or veteran status in employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions.

: A number of the state's teacher - tenure violate the state constitution by depriving California students of the equal opportunity for a quality education.

Last week, a hard - fought legal case brought on behalf of nine California public - school students resulted in a stunning and, for many, exciting decision: A number of the state's teacher - tenure violate the state constitution by depriving California students of the equal opportunity for a quality education.

Experts say the justifications offered by many charter leaders are troubling and undermine the promise of equal opportunity for every student.

RIDGELAND, MISSISSIPPI — Empower Mississippi President, Grant Callen, issued the following statement on the filing of the Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act by Mississippi Representative Carolyn Crawford and Senator Nancy Collins.

This includes authorization of the state's first charter schools, passage of the Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act, 3rd Grade Reading Gate, and an A-F grading system for all schools and school districts.

But neither administration was willing to take any further steps towards making America's promise of equal opportunity for all a reality.

This includes authorization of the state's first charter schools, passage of the Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act, 3rdGrade Reading Gate, and an A-F grading system for all schools and school districts.

Press Release: Special Needs Bill Introduced FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JANUARY 19, 2015 RIDGELAND, MISSISSIPPI — Empower Mississippi President, Grant Callen, issued the following statement on the filing of the Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act by Mississippi Representative Carolyn Crawford and Senator Nancy Collins.

2015: A Great Year For Children In Mississippi December 21, 2015 by Brett Kittredge As we prepare to close the book on 2015, we can look back on a great year for children in Mississippi that included passage of the Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act, the opening of the first two charter schools in the state, and the election of stronger education reform majorities in the state legislature.

With the passage of the Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act in 2015, Mississippi became the 3rd state to approve ESAs.

Looking at the challenges effective teachers and leaders face every day, what would it really take to help them ensure every student in NC has the opportunities guaranteed to them in our state constitution of equal opportunity for a sound basic education?

From Eliot's perspective, high schools fulfilled the promise of equal opportunity for education by insisting that all students take the same types of rigorous academic courses.

He implored PDP members to forget the past and work toward party unity and assured Ladoja and new PDP members of equal opportunity for all.

One could go on enumerating undemocratic elements in our society — the vast disparity in incomes and living conditions, the myth of equal opportunity for education and employment, the regimentation and militarization of the public mind, the threat to democracy which would ensue if a system of compulsory peacetime military training should be adopted.

The strategy promotes intrinsic Euskadi values such as hard work and compromise, the capacity to excel, a vocation for transformation and the creation of equal opportunities for men and women.

The Supreme Court likely remained silent on this issue because of the limited range of impact created by voucher programs when juxtaposed with the Brown Court's broad goal of equal opportunities for all children.

I agree with your statements of equal opportunities for reading complex text and leveled text for students.

Not exact matches

In the spirit of providing every American with an equal opportunity, it would be a much better policy to provide each individual with similar options for saving for retirement.

«What happens with Facebook is you don't know what you don't know,» said David Lopez, a former general counsel for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission who is one of the lawyers at the firm Outten & Golden bringing the age - discrimination case on behalf of the communication workers union.

A society is most productive when all its talent is unleashed by a combination of two factors: equal opportunity (for example through free quality higher education) and social mobility.

The data dictionary is a combination of fields that we created and borrows heavily from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's own data dictionary for EEO - 1 Reports.

But it can offer a wider and more equal window of opportunity for planning families and careers to women who decide they want it.

The La Pietra Coalition, a group of leaders advocating for women's advancement that last year launched The Third Billion campaign to support the scores of women entering the workforce, identifies four challenges that stand between women and equal opportunity.

ONLY three Western Australian businesses have been named an «employer of choice for women» among a list of 98 organisations considered to promote gender equality and provide equal opportunities for women in the workplace.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), in the absence of a specific prohibition against discrimination for being gay, has extended its enforcement in a similar way.

As for the developers» own political leanings, they tell Fortune, «As brothers ourselves, we admire the legacy of brothers John and Robert Kennedy for their commitment to cultivating an America that embraced a young generation, stood for civil rights, and worked towards equal opportunity.»

Local legislators have called for an investigation by the New York State Department of Labor and the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission.

Still, some black women remain optimistic: more than 43 % of black millennial women believe men and women have equal opportunities for promotion.

And so as a part of our continued efforts to strengthen the commitment of the President and his administration to equal opportunity, we thought it would be productive to bring in the private - sector decision makers for a brainstorming session on diversity and inclusion.

Achievement of these goals was considered by the HRC as very challenging, even aggressive, given the expected modest economic growth for 2007 for the financial services industry, the impact and duration of the on - going flat / inverted yield curve (meaning short - term interest rates that are virtually equal to or exceed long - term interest rates, thus lowering profit margins for financial services companies that borrow cash at short - term rates and lend at long - term rates), potentially higher credit losses, fewer available high - quality, high - yielding loans and investment opportunities, and a consumer shift from non-interest to interest - bearing deposits.

It is the policy of Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to provide equal opportunity in employment throughout the corporation for all qualified applicants and employees without discrimination against any person because of a person's race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex / gender (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions and breast feeding), national origin, ancestry, gender identity, gender expression, legally - protected medical condition, physical or mental disability, age, military or veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable law.

I was wrong on the facts, too, for the rolling revelations of the ensuing days showed that Weinstein was an equal - opportunity predator, happy to degrade and devour Jewish women, Gentile women, African Americans, etc., whoever and whenever.

• An economic opportunity «transferable corporate tax credit equal to the value of the cost for all soft and hard costs associated with the acquisition, relocation, and development of any new or refurbished building in the City of Camden up to $ 350 million.»

Small business vendors, including minority or disadvantaged businesses, women - owned businesses, veteran - owned businesses and small businesses operating from HUBZone or high unemployment areas, are a vital part of our commitment to world - class customer response and will be given an equal opportunity to compete for Clean Harbors» business in this environment.

Yes, there are plenty of opportunities for gender bias elsewhere, but the expectation of equal length leaves could only help.

«Investing in a broad and truly open mobile ecosystem is important for the industry and consumers alike, and Windows Phone is now the only platform that does so with equal opportunity for all partners,» said Andy Lees, president of the Windows Phone division.

In the event of a change of control (as defined in the plan), the compensation committee may, in its discretion, provide for any or all of the following actions: (i) awards may be continued, assumed, or substituted with new rights, (ii) awards may be purchased for cash equal to the excess (if any) of the highest price per share of common stock paid in the change in control transaction over the aggregate exercise price of such awards, (iii) outstanding and unexercised stock options and stock appreciation rights may be terminated, prior to the change in control (in which case holders of such unvested awards would be given notice and the opportunity to exercise such awards), or (iv) vesting or lapse of restrictions may be accelerated.

For this kind of company - wide integration, a devotion to diversity must begin at the top, suggests Gil Casellas, an attorney with Mintz Levin in Washington, D.C., who served as chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for three years in the Clinton administration and has been a corporate diversity enforcer in many other rolFor this kind of company - wide integration, a devotion to diversity must begin at the top, suggests Gil Casellas, an attorney with Mintz Levin in Washington, D.C., who served as chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for three years in the Clinton administration and has been a corporate diversity enforcer in many other rolfor three years in the Clinton administration and has been a corporate diversity enforcer in many other roles.

This is expected to be one of the signature moments of the meeting, and will demonstrate the commitment the company has to equal and respectful opportunity for all.

Title III marks another milestone in the rise of online financing and equal investment opportunity for all.

Democracy also gives a place for everyone to be equal and have the same levity of speech, rights and opportunity.

Whatever orthodox believers may think of Kenny's journey over these decades from classical theism to something vaguer, he is at least an equal - opportunity basher: For his aversion to absolutism can equally well be employed against the New Atheists, who affect an apodictic absolutism in their argumentation that makes them as impregnable to counterevidence as anything found in a creationist textbook.

It is rather a matter of justice and equal opportunity for our children.»

I fully accept that the accused have every right to answer in their own defense, and for the few who have availed themselves of the opportunity in this thread by showing humility and grace, those answers and the subsequent apologies have been accepted with equal measures of grace.

The confines of individualism, the closed world of consumption, the supremacy of productivism - and, for many, an obsessive struggle for sheer daily survival obscure humanity's larger objectives: the right to live liberated from oppression and exploitation, the right to equal opportunities, social justice, peace, spiritual fulfillment and solidarity.

But I told her that the situation was far worse than she imagined — disdain of homosexual was rampant in atheist China for instance (where I once lived)-- I told her that such disdain is an equal opportunity explorer.

I had finally found a church that emphasized care for the poor, that studied Scripture, that celebrated an end to nationalism, war, and hate, that provided equal opportunities women in leadership, that stayed out of politics, and that spoke of God's inclusive love for all people... and it was in New Jersey... and it was Reformed!

«The government can not create an avenue of expression for one side of a contentious political issue while denying an equal opportunity to citizens with the opposite view.»

; (3) socio - political ideals for the modem world (does Scripture imply that privileges, opportunities, rights, and rewards should everywhere be equal, irrespective of sex?)