Sentences with phrase «right to a quality education»

We are all grateful for your steady leadership and tireless efforts to guarantee our students their fundamental right to a quality education.

Every young person has the human right to a quality education and to learn in a safe, respectful school environment.

In that case, a state judge earlier this month struck down California's tenure system and other job protections embedded in state law, ruling that they deprived students of their constitutional right to a quality education because they shielded even the most incompetent teachers from dismissal.

Who are these deniers of parents» rights to a quality education for their children?

It is the case in which Connecticut's Supreme Court ruled that Connecticut's children have a constitutionally guaranteed right to a quality education.

«Recently, we had success in fighting for the fundamental right to a quality education in Los Angeles with the Superior Court's decision in Reed v. State of California.

At issue in the landmark case, Vergara vs. California, are five statutes that the nine students bringing the case contend protect ineffective teachers, thereby violating their constitutionally protected right to a quality education.

Citing two earlier cases that forced changes in state laws regarding students» rights to quality education through money spent and time of instruction provided, as well as evidence in Vergara, he said the plaintiffs «have proven, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the Challenged Statutes impose a real and appreciable impact on students» fundamental to quality of education and that they impose a disproportionate burden on poor and minority students.»

When the law that became the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act passed in 1975, millions of vulnerable students were granted enforceable legal rights to a quality education.

PPEF works on issues of interest to low - income new Yorkers; FPI is a non-partisan not - for - profit organization; AQE works to promote «the Constitutional right to a quality education.»

In testimony before the General Assembly's Appropriations Committee last week, the Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding [CCJEF] presented the rationale behind Connecticut conducting an Education Adequacy Cost Study in order to determine the level of resources that are really needed to ensure that every child has access to their constitutionally guaranteed right to a quality education.

«AQE wants to provide every child the right to a quality education.»

«Unless effective action is taken to tackle poverty, children will continue to be denied their human rights, including the right to quality education.

«How dare you deny students their right to a quality education because of where they live, because of their ZIP code?»

«Too many children, still, are denied the right to a quality education for reasons not of their choosing,» he says.

Courses of action to ensure the right to quality education for each and every student are included in the report.

Moreover, these youth have the right to a quality education, grounded in Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and the federal civil rights laws.

As a result many are being denied the right to a quality education,» Stephanie Gotlib, CEO of CDA, said in a statement.

This article presents the objectives, guidelines, approach, actions and achievements that have taken place in the capital of Colombia to guarantee the right to a quality education that allows its citizens face the challenges of a globalized world.

The lawyers will argue that the charter school cap has the effect of denying students in Boston and other urban districts their right to a quality education.

In Sri Lanka, the National Education Commission (NEC) has initiated nine National Goals that seek to ensure the right to quality education built upon the four pillars of learning as identified in the Delors report.

All refugee children and adolescents to enjoy their right to quality education in a safe environment supportive of their developmental needs.

Where people have the opportunity and the right to a quality education and teachers are merely the means to knowledge and not the only real source of information and wisdom, where youth learn by them - selves in seeking and investigating knowledge.

«I have been denied the right to a quality education,» said Gavin Alston, 12, whose Chicago school was shuttered last year.

If you believe that every child has the right to a quality education, then there is no more important work than providing the right leadership to dramatically transform public education in this country.

As parents and educators with a passion for quality public education and Chinese language and culture, our founders established Yu Ying on the belief that all D.C. children have the right to a quality education that opens doors to the future.

Everyone, everywhere has a need and the right to quality Education.

The right to a quality education is not enshrined in every state's constitution, but it is in California.

We promise all students in Washington they have a right to a quality education.

One can argue that every kid has the right to a quality education and that helping kids leave failing schools is morally right.

She has long been an advocate of children's right to a quality education.

Students do not have a union or contract, but they do have teachers like Marisa advocating for a student's right to a quality education.

There is, mainly, students» right to a quality education, acknowledged by state constitutions.

The school claims that every child has a right to a quality education, particularly one that values language and culture.

Amid a controversial lawsuit charging that the state's teacher tenure and dismissal laws were depriving students of their constitutional right to a quality education, billionaire philanthropists seeking to overhaul public education and powerful teachers unions poured more than $ 20 million into television attack ads and nasty mailers.

In the opening statement for the students, Ted Boutrous argued that every child has a constitutional right to a quality education — a right that has been violated due to the current teacher employment statues that he claimed handcuffs administrators in weeding ineffective teachers out of the classroom.

That every single child, regardless of race, regardless of ethnicity, regardless of wealth or zip code, every child in America has a right to a quality education.»

Robert Fraisse, whose career included serving as superintendent in three California school districts, appeared to give the defense a boost by testifying that the five laws under challenge in the trial — governing teacher seniority, tenure and dismissal — are not to blame for the presence of ineffective teachers, that well - managed districts can operate smoothly within the laws and that the statutes don't infringe on students» rights to a quality education.

The trial court correctly found that striking down these laws as unconstitutional was necessary to vindicate the right to a quality education promised to all of California's school children,» said Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr., lead co-counsel for plaintiffs, in a statement.

At the end of the day, we must remember and realize that every child has the right to a quality education, resources to succeed academically that meet any of their physical, mental, emotional, behavior disabilities, challenges, gifts or needs.

For two hours, Boutrous and McRae laid out their vision, arguing that the statutes handcuff school districts, thus leaving ineffective teachers in the classroom and denying students their constitutional right to a quality education.

Mayor Villaraigosa today thanked the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education for their approval of a settlement agreement in Reed v. State of California, a class action suit that claimed the plaintiffs» constitutional rights to a quality education was being violated by the disproportionate impact of teacher layoff at their schools.

At the urging of Mayor Villaraigosa and his Partnership for Los Angeles School, the ACLU and Public Counsel filed a lawsuit (Reed v. Smith) on behalf of Gompers, Liechty, and Markham Middle Schools arguing that the children's constitutional right to a quality education was being violated due to the disproportionate impact of teacher layoffs at those schools.

«Every child across this great state has the right to a quality education, and to attend a school that is best for them regardless of their zip code.

Every child across this great state has the right to a quality education, and to attend a school that is best for them.»

The families, educators, and community leaders of GO Public Schools Oakland believe that every child has a right to a quality education and everyone has a responsibility to help provide it.

on Hey Malloy, Wyman and Jepsen — Connecticut children have a Constitutional Right to a quality education!