Sentences with phrase «of unequal access»

As economic difficulties exacerbate the problem of unequal access to quality legal representation, the need is as great as ever, and we continue to respond to it.

And for a slew of reasons that I will explore in Part 2 of this column topic, a more elite class of law school graduate spells trouble for the Canadian legal profession's ability to contend with the current crisis of unequal access to justice.

This draft is a detailed plan to develop school leadership aimed at strengthening and improving the public education system while addressing one root of the existing problem of unequal access to quality education — state and local leadership «capacity.»

Learn more about our beliefs, America's long history of unequal access to great schools, and what students are doing to improve education for their family and friends still in the K - 12 system.

Not exact matches

And while various troubling social factors, including unequal access to health care and the impact of the opioid crisis, have stalled the growth of the average U.S. life expectancy in recent years, odds are that America's higher earners will live longer — maybe much longer — than they expect.

In Fault Lines, Rajan demonstrates how unequal access to education and health care in the United States puts us all in deeper financial peril, even as the economic choices of countries like Germany, Japan, and China place an undue burden on America to get its policies right.

In our own country millions of people especially American Negroes are subjected to discrimination and unequal treatment in educational opportunities, in employment, wages and conditions of work, in access to professional and business opportunities, in housing, in transportation, in the administration of justice and even in the right to vote.11

While many more people now have better access to drinking water, sanitation and health care, the world is still an unequal place: 2.5 billion — more than one third of the world's population — still have totally inadequate sanitation.16 Artificial feeding of an infant instead of breastfeeding in such settings can literally mean the difference between life and death.

These statements come from a Minister who in the past has attacked secularism as «intolerant and illiberal», has said that religious people contribute more to society than the non-religious, has championed religious groups as being at the heart of the «Big Society», and even tried to amend the Equality Bill in a way which would leave humanists unprotected against discrimination and unequal treatment in the provision of, and access to, public services, employment, education, funding, and elsewhere.

She has also said that religious people contribute more to society than the non religious, has championed religious groups as being at the heart of the «Big Society», and even tried to amend the Equality Bill in a way which would leave humanists unprotected against discrimination and unequal treatment in the provision of, and access to, public services, employment, education, funding, and elsewhere.

Just as fundamentally there is a danger that the unequal access to and understanding of technology could create a new form of social inequality.

«Across the nation too many of these children face unequal access to justice and it's time for others to step up.»

Social inequality refers to disparities in the distribution of economic assets and income as well as between the overall quality and luxury of each person's existence within a society, while economic inequality is caused by the unequal accumulation of wealth; social inequality exists because the lack of wealth in certain areas prohibits these people from obtaining the same housing, health care, etc. as the wealthy, in societies where access to these social goods depends on wealth.

How much of this difference stems from unequal access to health care, such as regular screening and aggressive treatment, and how much is rooted in biology?

Major reasons include lack of universal access, unequal treatment, and underinvestment in public health and social welfare.

Parents would not want to go back to a system built on unequal access to schools, but they don't want to be denied options in the interest of maintaining quotas or forcing all children in a neighborhood to attend the same school whether it meets their needs or not.

The participation gap: unequal access to the opportunities, experiences, skills, and knowledge that will prepare youth for full participation in the world of tomorrow.

Michael Petrilli called the Department's recent warning that it would take a closer look at these within - district allocations «meddling,» but it's shameful that our public policies disproportionately place students of color in schools with poor lighting, unsafe or temporary structures, and unequal access to technology and curriculum.

But surely poor and minority students have unequal access to all sorts of resources.

At least since the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, this has been interpreted to give the federal government the power to intervene in cases of legally sanctioned discrimination, like the segregation of public schools across the country; to mandate equal access to education for students with disabilities; and, according to some arguments, to correct for persistently unequal access to resources across states and districts of different income levels.

And they won because supporters of comprehensive high schools defined equal education as equal access to different and unequal programs.

[1] While the election results dashed those specific proposals, the idea continues to appeal to many policymakers as a way of addressing rising college prices, growing student debt burdens, and unequal access to higher education institutions.

Yet that's precisely the chain of events set in motion by OCR's latest (and breathtakingly audacious) «Dear Colleague» letter, this one focused on «unequal access to educational resources.»

We also can combat other forces that lower the confidence of children of color in their academic ability and their worth, such as the pervasive belief in this country in the bell curve of ability, school practices for tracking, disproportionate placement in special education, biased application of discipline procedures, and unequal access to Advanced Placement classes.

Last August, the ACLU of Southern California and Public Advocates Inc. published Unequal Access: How Some California Charter Schools Illegally Restrict Enrollment.

Whether we consider the title of the course offered or the more refined international grade placement indicator, U.S. schools clearly provided unequal access to 8th grade mathematics content.

Here is one of Connecticut's leading corporate reform voices: «'' The Vergara case exposed the fact that children have unequal access to quality teachers in California.

From America's Wire: «Educators cite these causes for the disparity in performance: Lowered expectations for students of color Growing income inequality and lack of resources in low - income school districts Unequal access... Read More

Despite the apparent success expressed by some of the preservice teachers with technology as practice, 9 % of the student - teachers were disappointed with unequal access and articulated their concern about a perceived digital divide.

Using historical and ethnographic methods, I argue that certain understandings of talent perpetuate unequal access to power by naturalizing a set of musical skills acquired through other means.

Unequal access to opportunities for developing life skills plays a role in the over-representation of those with independent school backgrounds of the UK's top professions.

Issues in equity and desegregation negatively impact student success in numerous ways to include a lack of access and opportunity to gifted programs and advanced coursework, low expectations, disproportionate student discipline, and unequal resource distribution.

We are at a crossroads where the standards movement that has dominated education policy since the 80's intersects with the almost forgotten educational history of the 60's and 70's that saw the natural progress of effective schools take root because the influential in education policy THEN understood poverty and saw a way that education law could remedy a longstanding injustice — unequal access to quality education.

Lack of access to high quality summer learning opportunities has real consequences — more than half of the achievement gap between lower and higher - income youth can be explained by unequal access to summer learning opportunities.

Shuffling children around within the borders of their district into schools that have unequal access to resources and unequal commitments to educating all students is not the «choice» offered in the suburbs.

The author highlights numerous obstacles to achieving an equitable education system for all students: poverty, inadequate social supports, limited early childhood opportunities, re-segregation; unequal access to quality and certified teachers; low - quality curricula; differential placements in advanced and college preparatory classes, tracking of students, and dysfunctional teaching and learning environments.

11 «Unequal Access: How Some California Charter Schools Illegally Restrict Enrollment,» ACLU of Southern California, July 2016.

To realize charter schools» promise of providing educational choice to all, the ACLU SoCal and Public Advocates released Unequal Access: How Some California Charter Schools Illegal Restrict Enrollment, a July 2016 report that sheds light on exclusionary enrollment policies at 253 charter schools.

Although low - income schools have plenty of working parents, only 24 percent of children living in communities of concentrated poverty participate in an after - school program.81 Alternatively, 56 percent of children not in an after - school program would be enrolled in one if it were available to them.82 Unequal access to child care is inequitable to low - income parents and also hurts students.

Knowing what we do about the historical background of housing segregation along with the impact of funding on school quality, it is clear that, across income and racial or ethnic groups, the access to high - scoring schools is severely unequal.

Time will tell how these initiatives, mixed with the townspeople's narrow view of affordable housing options, move toward solving the town's unequal access dilemma.

Reactionary state laws, unequal and unethical administration of voting procedures, and the unfettered access of corporations to influence electoral outcomes has severely damaged our democracy.

Major reasons include lack of universal access, unequal treatment, and underinvestment in public health and social welfare.

Major reasons include lack of universal access, unequal treatment, and underinvestment in public health and social welfare.

Research and outreach efforts are underway in the region to help farmers find ways to cope with a rapidly changing climate, take advantage of a longer growing season, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, 61,112 but unequal access to capital and information for strategic adaptation and mitigation remain a challenge.

It highlights households do not act as one when making decisions, women tend to control fewer resources and to be more vulnerable to external shocks due to already - present vulnerability from unequal access to resources, lower levels of education, increased burden and poorer health.

While the supporting materials note that disability - related accommodation is available for the actual writing of the examinations, I also have in mind other potential unequal barriers, such as the inability to take time off from work and family responsibilities for study, as well as differential ability to afford / access third party preparation assistance or other study aids and resources.

Lord knows that much of the present crisis in unequal access to justice is due to the complexity and delays of the current system.

The mobile and web environments give rise to distinct privacy and security issues, and, although the availability of wireless and internet access is at an all - time high, concerns about uneven or unequal access persist.

The concept of language discrimination involves any mistreatment, inequality, or unequal access to resources against individuals for whom English is not their primary dialect.