Sentences with phrase «standard of an adequate education»

In September of 2016, Superior Court Judge Thomas Moukawsher's ruling gave Connecticut six months to revise its school funding formula and clearly define its standard of an adequate education.

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There is no doubt that work, an adequate standard of living, health care, food, clothing, housing, and education are all human goods that are, as the Declaration says, «indispensable for [a person's] dignity and the free development of his personality» (Article 22).

Rather the Universal Declaration's affirmation of rights to social security, to work, to rest, to an adequate standard of living, and to education are rooted in religious values and in the tenets of social democracy.

In addition to presenting a significant barrier to resolution of the Israel - Palestine conflict, by constituting a substantial obstacle to the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, the ICJ similarly notes that the existence of these settlements «violates the basic human rights of the Palestinians by impeding liberty of movement and the inhabitants» right to work, health, education and an adequate standard of living.»

The changes, which Education Commissioner John King said are already under way, include increasing public understanding of the standards, training more teachers and principals, ensuring adequate funding, reducing testing time and providing high school students the option to take some traditional Regents exams while Common Core - aligned tests are phased in.

Two prominent and recent adequacy cases — from New York (Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. New York) and Kansas (Montoy v. State)-- show that when courts attempt to overcome the problem of justiciability either they will founder trying to establish what an adequate education actually is or they will retreat to the legally safe but politically dangerous standard of equity.

Dean Lagemann's talk, «Toward a More Adequate Science of Education,» focused specifically on creating new standards of accountability for education research, new infrastructure for research, and new programs of research training — as a means of linking theory and practice in powerEducation,» focused specifically on creating new standards of accountability for education research, new infrastructure for research, and new programs of research training — as a means of linking theory and practice in powereducation research, new infrastructure for research, and new programs of research training — as a means of linking theory and practice in powerful ways.

In 2014, the State Supreme Court of South Carolina ruled that the state was failing to provide the poorest districts — known as the state's «corridor of shame» — with enough funding to meet the constitutional standard of a «minimally adequate education.»

The plans, introduced in the Education and Adoption Bill, are aimed at raising standards in hundreds of schools that are achieving adequate exam results, but where the government believes achievement could be much higher.

The U.S. Department of Education has blocked an attempt by Pennsylvania's Education Secretary to evaluate state charter schools using a more lenient method for calculating AYP, the «adequate yearly progress» measurement that determines whether schools have met the minimum academic standards under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).

The result was the ESSA, which ends much of NCLB's hated prescriptions — good - bye, «adequate yearly progress» and associated punishments — and forbids the secretary of education from specifying state standards or tests.

In 2010, the Connecticut Supreme Court concluded in a 4 - 3 decision in response to the coalition's lawsuit that the Constitution implied a qualitative standard of a minimally adequate education, and that the state is responsible for ensuring that level of adequacy is met.

The group concluded that ELLs must have access to 60 and not only 30 months of bilingual instruction and that to make this shift, the state must collaborate with institutions of higher education to develop adequate standards.

Delivering access to justice demands change and action on a very broad range of initiatives — pro bono work by the private bar, fair and adequate funding of legal aid, collaboration among all system participants (clients, lawyers, courts, agencies, NGO's), legal education (and its financing), e-filing and case data standards, court forms, court interfaces to self - represented litigants, unbundled legal services, virtual law practice, multistate practice, law practice ownership and investment, limited practice licenses, unauthorized practice of law rules, lawyer advertising rules, and lawyer discipline.

«In short, the quality of forensic practice in most disciplines varies greatly because of the absence of adequate training and continuing education, rigorous mandatory certification and accreditation programs, adherence to robust performance standards and effective oversight,» the report said.

You should take adequate life insurance so that your family continues to maintain the same standard of living and can meet financial goals like son's education and marriage.

A number of the provisions of ICESCR are directly relevant to the disadvantage suffered by Indigenous Australians, including rights to an adequate standard of living, including in housing and infrastructure; the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standards of physical and mental health; and an adequate standard of education.