Sentences with phrase «same public mandate»
We'd like to see the same public mandate expressed about charter schools.
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When black students are unable to gain admission at the same rate as whites to the elite public exam school in Boston, let's ask a federal judge to mandate black excellence.
«At the same time,» McMahon said, «we will highlight obstacles to greater growth and prosperity in the Empire State, including high taxes, excessive spending and debt, unfunded liabilities, and costly public - sector collective bargaining mandates.»
While the executive branch has to provide data on the racial and ethnic makeup of its staff for the public record, there is no rule mandating that congressional offices do the same.
Boston Latin, one of the oldest and most prestigious public schools in America, succumbed to coeducation in 1972, the same year that Congress passed Title IX mandating equal education for the sexes.
District mandates get harder and harder in an attempt to meet public demands — the same public that offers lip - service, but no substantive help, to our predicament.
Nor do they provide them the same quality and quantity of services available to students in public schools, including those mandated under each student's individualized education program (IEP).
Charter high schools are subject to the same state mandated reporting and graduation requirements as other Rhode Island public schools.
To add to the scandal, Jeff Bryant notes the Indianapolis Star report that were two traditional public schools in Indiana to receive the same break that Bennett's friend's school received, they wouldn't have been subject to state - mandated takeovers by a charter operation called Charter Schools USA.
The original New Jersey charter public school law mandated per pupil funding for each charter public school student equal to 90 percent of the amount allocated for a child in a traditional district school in the same school district.
«Our conclusion remains the same: parents do not have a legal right to withdraw their children from state - mandated assessments in Arizona's public schools.»
If private and charter schools are to receive taxpayer funding via vouchers or tax credits, they should also have to be subject to the same state testing requirements as public schools in order to show that their students are achieving at state - mandated levels.
If certain proposals to control homeschooling families were to be fair and not an unwarranted profiling of those who choose home education rather than public or private schooling, then the same kinds of mandated home visits by government - approved agents would need to be imposed on all families with children of all ages and on all public and private school personnel.
Since that time, every public school in the nation has followed the same federally - mandated prescription.
Nor do they provide them the same quality and quantity of services available to students in public schools, including those mandated under each student's individualized education plan (IEP).
Charter schools accepting public funds should be accountable to the same public agency and held to accountability and oversight requirements equivalent to those mandated for traditional public schools.
«We're very concerned about what this means for mandate of the public library in providing universal access to a diverse collection in a range of formats... we need to be able to provide customers with access to e-content in the same way that we've always provided access to other forms of content in books and DVDS and CDs et cetera.»
While service dogs enjoy federally mandated access to all public places, therapy dogs are not guaranteed the same accessibility.
The same day, however, some other news reminded the public of what happens when government policy mandates and incentivizes a favored energy source: Taxpayer dollars are gobbled up and investors lose out.
But another explanation of the same phenomenon is that technical expertise is sought because today's politicians, as managers of public life but lacking the moral authority enjoyed by their predecessors, need them where they previously enjoyed a mandate from the public.
In 1997, the same year Louisiana mandated drug testing for certain adult recipients of public assistance (HB 2435), the state enacted a process for random drug testing of all «elected officials» (HB 646).
The decision, however, highlights the paradox of our federal government responding to an important issue of public policy by adopting legislation (the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act) that mandates compliance with rules governing the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information, but at the same time not equipping the privacy commissioner with powers to enforce compliance or punish violators.
The same deference exerted to these schools though is also extended to institutions like the law society, especially in upholding their mandate for the public interest.