Sentences with phrase «schools against public schools»

We need to stop pitting public schools against public schools, and start working as one community to improve the lives of all our children.

Not exact matches

Last year, one such company, Dovden Investments, launched at least 35 lawsuits against Canadian organizations — including a school for gifted children in Alberta and a pair of individual developers of free public - transit apps — that ostensibly stole the obscure intellectual property in its portfolio.

The list of companies terminating their partnerships with the National Rifle Association is growing as public outcry against the gun group escalates following the deadliest mass shooting at a public high school in U.S. history.

They donated $ 25 million in the fight against Ebola last year, and they gave $ 100 million worth of Facebook shares toward improving a New Jersey public - school system.

Broward School Board members took a stand against arming school employees Tuesday, while facing harsh public criticism about how well the district protects and cares for its stuSchool Board members took a stand against arming school employees Tuesday, while facing harsh public criticism about how well the district protects and cares for its stuschool employees Tuesday, while facing harsh public criticism about how well the district protects and cares for its students.

As a reaction against the 19th and early 20th centuries» rising trend of public regulation and money creation, this school describes money's value as based on its bullion content or convertibility, or on bank deposits and other financial assets.

Detroit school students, represented by the Los Angeles - based public interest firm Public Counsel, filed suit last month against the state of Michigan, claiming a legal right to literacy based on the 14th Amendment to the Constitpublic interest firm Public Counsel, filed suit last month against the state of Michigan, claiming a legal right to literacy based on the 14th Amendment to the ConstitPublic Counsel, filed suit last month against the state of Michigan, claiming a legal right to literacy based on the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

Well before that, we will see increasing legislation, taxation, and state licensing directed, in the name of gay rights, against church halls and schools and charities: all the Catholic institutions that can be identified as offering some kind of public access and accommodation.

Existing constitutional provisions against establishments of religion did not bar public spending on education from reaching schools with religious affiliations, and Blaine's amendment did not propose to alter this arrangement except by excluding Catholics.

In addition to civil rights for people of color, women and LGBT, there has been an expansion of religious liberty for minority sects, enforcement of viewpoint neutrality with respect to access to various public and non-public forums (e.g. religious student groups must be granted equal access to school facilities as their secular counterparts, etc) greater protections against age and disability discrimination, and recognition of habeas corpus rights even for enemy combatants.

His mother began to fight for her son, first against a local public school system that takes a cookie - cutter approach to children, then against the county and state.

What constitutes legitimate protection of a child and what are the obligations of a family to protest against an injustice in school segregation, for example, and to open the way for better public education?

In the current culture wars, religious liberals tend to ally themselves with the educational establishment against those on the Religious Right who are attacking the public schools.

This can be observed in the struggle to defend public school salaries, in forms of nonmonetary trading of goods and services, in incipient micro-banks oriented especially toward financing projects designed and carried out by women, or in protests against corruption in the public sphere.

In the early 1960s, Madalyn O'Hair, an atheist communist filed a lawsuit against prayer in public schools that made it's way all the way to the Supreme Court of the U.S..

School records are NEVER open to the public, as it is against the law for them to do so.

Actually those he's speaking against are those that want to push creationism in public schools where seperation of church and state is supposed to exist.

When the story was made public in November, the school postponed the pre-scheduled disciplinary hearing, and initiated further investigations against Sutcliffe, alleging breach of confidence and bringing the school into disrepute.

Inquisition, witch trials, laws against public office, teaching fiction as fact in public schools, etc... we can certainly handle what we're dealing with now, but we won't let it get out of hand ever again!

His [Stalins] government promoted atheism through special atheistic education in schools, anti-religious propaganda, the antireligious work of public insti tutions (Society of the Godless), discriminatory laws, and a terror campaign against religious believers.

the problem is when those people who believe decide to force their beliefs on others by codifying their beliefs into law, discriminating against their fellows, and insinuating it in to public school curriculum.

His government promoted atheism through special atheistic education in schools, anti-religious propaganda, the antireligious work of public insti tutions (Society of the Godless), discriminatory laws, and a terror campaign against religious believers.

Their is no prohibition against discussing religion in public schools.

There is a prohibition against promoting one religion over another in public schools.

Hawaii, I would be against any faith based criteria entering our public schools.

The idea that sex, as a unique human activity, might require a unique morality, different from the general moral rules against physical harm to others and harm to the self, is not one that public schools are prepared to entertain.

You said «I would like to remind you that not everyone who calls themself Christian is trying to push school prayer, pro-life, discrimination against LGBTs or restrictions of public discourse on diverse points of view.»

@LinCa I would like to remind you that not everyone who calls themself Christian is trying to push school prayer, pro-life, discrimination against LGBTs or restrictions of public discourse on diverse points of view.

As much as we might fight against prayers in public schools, churches on city property and political leaders who have the nerve to declare that this is a Christian country, we must accept the fact that we are a minority.

Schools that discriminate are excluding or disadvantaging a portion of the public and therefore do not truly benefit the (whole) public, and they also violate the federal public policy against racial discrimination.

When saying Merry Christmas has become a bad thing, when we can no longer have the peoples vote counted and respected by judges and elected officials, when health care for aids and other associated dieses is covered, when kids in school have to be subjected to demonstrations of gay bedroom life when the mayor of NY will no longer without reason and against the law rent churches public buildings, when teen pregnancies up 45 percent will be paid for by us the people of the US with all the cost completely covered.

I have myself taken part in a demonstration against a public policy that was later described by «the other side» as being violent and hateful, with the intent to intimidate the school board into breaking the law.

Also, they argued against any prayer or Bible - reading in the public schools unless it was according to their beliefs.

They have — most of them — hot running water, central heating, electric lighting, immunizations against deadly disease, public schooling, access to parks and beautiful libraries, etc. etc, wonderful benefits that, for most of human history, were either reserved for the few ruling elite or didn't exist!

They have carried on an all out battle against the teaching of the theory of evolution in the public schools.

Battleground: One Mother's Crusade, The Religious Right, and the Struggle for Control of our Classrooms by stephen bates poseidon press, 365 pages, $ 24 The 1983 protest by a group of parents in Hawkins County, Tennessee, against certain stories and themes in the public school reading....

The point, here, is that public schools were pressed to recognize cultural pluralism and to avoid favoring any one religious tradition over against others.

The Saskatchewan Catholic School Boards Association states: «Their argument is that per student grants paid to a Catholic school division for non-Catholic students is discriminatory against public schools under the Charter of Rights and FreSchool Boards Association states: «Their argument is that per student grants paid to a Catholic school division for non-Catholic students is discriminatory against public schools under the Charter of Rights and Freschool division for non-Catholic students is discriminatory against public schools under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

Of course, the courts must uphold the First Amendment provision against any and all who wish to capture the public schools for their own sectarian teaching.

When Catholics dominate the public school boards they sometimes discriminate against non-Catholic teachers.

For instance a US Education department report concerning American public schools shows large scale contemporary abuse, with little action being taken against admitted offenders.

Many of those outraged by the allegations against Penn State, including that Paterno had reportedly been told about the abuse but declined to notify authorities, have pointed a finger at what they say was the school's and its football program's commitment to maintaining a sterling public image, drawing parallels to the church.

In the public schools, even the reciting of the Lord's Prayer or the Bible involves taking sides for or against the supersessionary claims.

School District That Held Graduations in Church An appeals court ruled against a Wisconsin school district over its usage of a church building to hold graduations due to a lack of space in public school facilSchool District That Held Graduations in Church An appeals court ruled against a Wisconsin school district over its usage of a church building to hold graduations due to a lack of space in public school facilschool district over its usage of a church building to hold graduations due to a lack of space in public school facilschool facilities.

, we work hard every day to get more kids and their families cooking in the kitchen, help fight the battle against hunger, and help more public school students have an opportunity toward education in the restaurant and foodservice industry.

I'm glad Jezebel got a hold of this and made it public so at least we can all know what we're potentially up against when sending our own kids to high school.

Bullied and bludgeoned by weeks of intense public debate over a longer school day, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis fought back Friday by filing an unfair labor practices complaint against Chicago Public Schools leadership and accusing Emanuel of trying to intimidate her in a profanity - filled tirade recently at Citypublic debate over a longer school day, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis fought back Friday by filing an unfair labor practices complaint against Chicago Public Schools leadership and accusing Emanuel of trying to intimidate her in a profanity - filled tirade recently at CityPublic Schools leadership and accusing Emanuel of trying to intimidate her in a profanity - filled tirade recently at City Hall.

One parent even filed a lawsuit against the league that organizes public school sports.

Of course, school lunch is one part of the larger war that must be waged — against the public's apathy, lack of awareness, or disenfranchisement from the system.