Sentences with phrase «providing equal educational opportunities»

The educational leader acknowledges that he or she serves the schools and community by providing equal educational opportunities to each and every child.

In Ghana, Mugabe declared himself a Marxist, supporting the Ghanaian government's goal of providing equal educational opportunities to the formerly designated lower classes.

Vastly more jarring is that the central goal of the report — the development of an education system that provides equal educational opportunity for all groups, and especially for racial minorities — has not been attained.

The Secretary of Education approves plans, ensures state implementation through oversight and enforcement, and takes action when states fail to meet their obligations to close achievement gaps and provide equal educational opportunity for all students.

We also ask them to provide equal educational opportunity to all students and to socialize diverse young people into our democratic culture.

The five - judge court ruled unanimously Oct. 8 that the state's contributions for teacher pay produce such wide disparities in salaries that poor, rural districts can not compete for and retain well - qualified teachers, and thus can not provide the equal educational opportunities required by the state constitution.

«The ultimate issue is whether funding is provided to each school in the district so as to provide equal educational opportunity for all students.»

Capital Prep and Steve Perry have shown a complete and utter inability to provide equal educational opportunities for Latino children, children who are not fluent in English and children who need extra help due to their special education requirements.

Those disequalizing factors need to be revised or eliminated in order to make schools more uniform and enable all districts to provide an equal educational opportunity.

We continue to have a school funding system that does not provide an equal educational opportunity for our children; does not meet the additional needs of the three student populations identified in our standard; and does not provide a fair and equitable school tax burden for property owners.

Their involvement, as well as the 1993 ruling in McDuffy v. Roberson ordering the Commonwealth to provide equal educational opportunities for all students in Massachusetts, led to the passage of the Education Reform Act of 1993.

The school as an extension of those principles must provide an equal educational opportunity for all children to develop to their fullest potential.

«As a rule of thumb, for a state finance system to provide equal educational opportunity, that system must ensure sufficiently higher resources in higher need settings than in lower need settings,» says Sciarra.

Most importantly, here in Connecticut and around the nation, charter schools refuse to provide equal educational opportunities.

She noted that the State of Texas and the Texas Education Agency must meet their responsibility to «ensure that school districts are providing equal educational opportunity in all schools» as required by the court.

High quality schooling that provides equal educational opportunities for secondary English language learners (ELLs) must include seven key components: state leadership, oversight and compliance; governance; fair funding; parent and community engagement; student achievement and support; teaching and curriculum quality; and accountability.

Lumin Education provides equal educational opportunity to all students in the administration of its educational policies, procedures, programs and activities.

According to the judge's reading of the law, as long as public school students got classrooms with desks, chairs, air to breathe, a teacher, textbooks, and a curriculum, the State had fulfilled most of its obligation to provide an equal educational opportunity.

The article conveniently overlooks that fact that the charter school industry fails to provide equal educational opportunities for children who require special education services, those who aren't fluent in the English Language and those who are forced out of charter schools for failure to survive the abusive disciplinary policies.

And like Pryor, Goldfarb was a big fan of charter schools despite their unwillingness to provide equal educational opportunities to students who require special educational services, those who aren't proficient in the English Language or those who fail to adhere to the abusive and degrading harsh disciplinary policies that are the staple of charter school operations.

Supporters of «desegregation bussing» argued that integration would provide minority students with equal access to equipment, facilities and resources thus providing an equal educational opportunity for all students in the area.

Not exact matches

Interscholastic Athletics: Statute 121A.04 (2003) requires each educational institution to provide equal opportunities for both sexes to participate in its athletic program.

The court also proclaimed that educational «opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.»

«Right now because we believe in the myth of average, we believe that opportunity means providing equal access to standardized educational experiences,» he says.

The aim of racial integration of our schools should be recognized as distinct from the aim of providing equal opportunity for educational performance.

Considering fair school funding to be a state finance system that ensures equal educational opportunity by providing a sufficient level of funding...

More generally, I would say that our single biggest national sin of omission is our continued failure to provide our most vulnerable children, often poor and students of color, truly equal educational opportunities.

Wyoming has utilized the Future Ready Framework as the backbone of the states Digital Learning Plan, which outlines best practices in providing equal access to quality educational opportunities through technology.

Malloy's 2012 education legislation was not designed to provide Connecticut's children with equal educational opportunity.

Further, New York's proposal to selectively provide students with disabilities who are below grade level a different test from students without disabilities who are below grade level unjustly discriminates and violates these students» rights under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 [viii] since it deprives these students with disabilities equal educational opportunities and benefits as those available to non-disabled students.

High - quality charter schools exemplifying progressive values by providing historically underserved students with equal educational opportunity deserve our support.

The purpose of the Act is to prohibit discrimination and to ensure that students with disabilities have educational opportunities and benefits equal to those provided to other students.

The liaison is responsible for ensuring that activities with other agencies are coordinated with school personnel; students in temporary housing have full and equal opportunity to succeed in school; and provide public notice of the educational rights is disseminated where to receive services such as schools, family shelters and soup kitchens.

Equal educational opportunity means ensuring schools have the resources they need to provide real and meaningful opportunities for all students to succeed, regardless of family income or race.

Connecticut was one of the first states in the country where the courts stepped in to say that a child's right to an education was so fundamental that state governments must act to ensure that school financing systems «provide a substantially equal educational opportunity.»

By expanding school choice and providing more educational opportunities for every American family, we can help make sure that every child has an equal shot at achieving the American Dream.

So with federal education law originally meant to support the public education system in order to break the «poverty - ignorance - ignorance - poverty cycle» by providing ALL children with quality education, we know «choice» can not logically get us to equal educational opportunity.

First, public school choice programs (such as charter and interdistrict magnet schools) in Connecticut are all required by Connecticut law to provide children with an equal educational opportunity and to reduce racial, ethnic, and economic isolation of students (except technical schools).

This guidebook for administrators, instructional leaders and teachers in the District of Columbia unpacks the eight affirmative steps that LEAs and schools must take to ensure English Learners are provided equal access to educational opportunities.

(e) The board shall establish the information needed in an application for the approval of a charter school; provided that the application shall include, but not be limited to, a description of: (i) the mission, purpose, innovation and specialized focus of the proposed charter school; (ii) the innovative methods to be used in the charter school and how they differ from the district or districts from which the charter school is expected to enroll students; (iii) the organization of the school by ages of students or grades to be taught, an estimate of the total enrollment of the school and the district or districts from which the school will enroll students; (iv) the method for admission to the charter school; (v) the educational program, instructional methodology and services to be offered to students, including research on how the proposed program may improve the academic performance of the subgroups listed in the recruitment and retention plan; (vi) the school's capacity to address the particular needs of limited English - proficient students, if applicable, to learn English and learn content matter, including the employment of staff that meets the criteria established by the department; (vii) how the school shall involve parents as partners in the education of their children; (viii) the school governance and bylaws; (ix) a proposed arrangement or contract with an organization that shall manage or operate the school, including any proposed or agreed upon payments to such organization; (x) the financial plan for the operation of the school; (xi) the provision of school facilities and pupil transportation; (xii) the number and qualifications of teachers and administrators to be employed; (xiii) procedures for evaluation and professional development for teachers and administrators; (xiv) a statement of equal educational opportunity which shall state that charter schools shall be open to all students, on a space available basis, and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, creed, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, special need, proficiency in the English language or academic achievement; (xv) a student recruitment and retention plan, including deliberate, specific strategies the school will use to ensure the provision of equal educational opportunity as stated in clause (xiv) and to attract, enroll and retain a student population that, when compared to students in similar grades in schools from which the charter school is expected to enroll students, contains a comparable academic and demographic profile; and (xvi) plans for disseminating successes and innovations of the charter school to other non-charter public schools.

The Assistant Secretary for civil rights is responsible for ensuring that schools and districts across the country provide all students equal access to educational opportunity regardless of their backgrounds.

In a 4 - 3 decision, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled the state had an affirmative obligation to provide Connecticut's school children with a substantially equal educational opportunity and that this constitutionally guaranteed right encompasses the access to a public education, which is not substantially and materially impaired by racial and ethnic isolation.

Applicants should provide evidence that their approaches address environmental circumstances such as local achievement gaps, the brief said, and charter authorizers should factor «equal educational opportunity» concerns into renewal standards.

The Departments believe that guidance on how to identify, avoid, and remedy discriminatory discipline will assist schools in providing all students with equal educational opportunities.1

The basic principle is that an equal educational opportunity must be provided to all students.

1 C Access to career information Career center staff should provide all students, regardless of personal or educational background, with equal access to information career opportunities and types of employing organizations.

The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) is an Equal Opportunity Institution authorized to provide research, educational information and other services only to individuals and institutions that function with non-discrimination with respect to race, creed, color, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, political opinions or affiliations.

The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission will shortly release a paper which provides an overview of the research, educational and advocacy work that we have done over recent years on issues relating to family violence in Indigenous communities.