Sentences with phrase «students by denying»

«Hey look, we can steal a few more bucks from students by denying them health insurance, and we get to make a political statement at the same time while using the pathetic excuse it is for religious reasons, even while we are actually trying to make even more money... in the name of God...»

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The irony continues with the feting of Okotoks as the greenest community in Canada by such pundits as Prime Minister Stephen Harper and CBC's Peter Mansbridge at the same time the «rurban» community sits in the chosen provincial riding of Wildrose leader Danielle Smith — a right wing student of the climate - change - denying Fraser Institute and cheerful avower that global warming science is «not settled.»

If SB 1146 were to pass, it would deny students» ability to participate in state grant programs — programs that exist to help low - income students, and which are overwhelmingly used by racial minorities — at schools that are found in violation of the bill.

Although marked out as an exceptional student by his professors at the Gregorian University, he was denied the opportunity to pursue further studies, so he does not write in the academic style and precise terminology of the professional theologian.

Religion has even become a problem at religious schools, as when Gonzaga University, a Catholic Jesuit school, initially denied the Knights of Columbus official student club status because the club practices «religious discrimination» (and «gender discrimination») by admitting only Catholic men.

It's part of the larger Let Her Learn movement by the NWLC that tries to end all of the policies that end up denying students their right to their education, especially at a young age.

Flanked by two former managers and a senior manager, Siena men's basketball coach Jimmy Patsos on Friday denied allegations he verbally abused a team student manager afflicted by an anxiety disorder and withheld per diem allowances from players and team aides.

The Orangetown Town Board has again gone unanimously on record requesting the New York State Parole Board to deny the parole application bids submitted by the two convicted killers of 16 - year - old Pearl River High School student Paula Bohovesky 37 years ago.

Denied a request by Boys Prep Elementary to expand to serve the full number of students allowed in its charter, including serving additional special education students.

His demonstrations have included leading a walkout of a talk by the former state education commissioner and conducting a mock trial prosecuting Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo for denying New York students their right to an education.

Teachers respond by attempting to teach a topic a week, says education professor Marcia Linn of the University of California, Berkeley, an adviser to the TIMSS study, but that approach «denies students the opportunity to find out what it is like to have a deep understanding of any subject.»

A U.S. Appeals Court ruling in a University of Chicago case has lowered the barrier for court review of claims by postdoctoral students and junior faculty that they have been denied financial rewards from discoveries in which they have participated.

A study by Andrew Shtulman of Occidental College showed that even students with an advanced science education had a hitch in their mental gait when asked to affirm or deny that humans are descended from sea animals and that the Earth goes around the sun.

Willie Soon continues to attend industry - funded climate denier events and detests questions that highlight the dirty energy companies funding his work: watch Dr. Soon shout at a student asking critical questions last April, at events run by the campus arm of CFACT, a well known climate denial organization.

By enacting a charter moratorium, this bill would deny the families of New Mexico the opportunity to make the best choices for their students» education.»

Also, by choosing to cram the material, students are denying themselves that dopamine release.

«Although, in theory, a single instance of sufficiently severe one - on - one peer harassment» could have the effect of denying students equal access to educational programs, the court found it «unlikely that Congress would have thought such behavior sufficient to rise to this level in light of the inevitability of student misconduct and the amount of litigation that would be invited by entertaining claims of official indifference to a single instance of one - on - one peer harassment.»

Parents of children assigned to failing schools in the New York City and Albany, N.Y., systems claimed in a lawsuit last week that those districts had denied students the chance to transfer or receive supplemental services as required by the federal law.

Lubricating the learning process with frictionless turn - in - the - worksheet compliance denies students opportunities for productive struggle — a condition important for learning and retention, according to an article by Richard Schmidt and Robert Bjork in Psychological Science.

The lawsuit was initially brought by Abigail Fisher, a white student who was denied admission to the University of Texas and claims that she experienced racial discrimination.

The case was brought last month by the parents of three white preschoolers who were denied admission to next fall's kindergarten class at the Arlington Traditional School, a countywide magnet school serving about 300 students in grades K - 5.

Students insisted that racism is «not a good thing» but denied any individual or collective responsibility for racism by the «white culture».

According to state rules, a student's full - time school may not deny access to courses offered by FLVS.

Such an approach ensures that the inspirational surroundings offered by historic buildings are not denied to future generations of students, while also reusing finite resources in the interests of sustainability.

Three years later in Little Rock, Ark., despite the Supreme Court's decision that segregation violated the Constitution, nine young Black students were denied access to a public high school by segregationist Governor Orval Faubus.

There's also talk by states» rights advocates of no longer requiring annual testing by states, which would deny parents and educators valuable information about whether students are on track, reduce the ability to measure and improve teacher quality, and make it harder for administrators to know how schools are doing and when they need to intervene.

I came to define Equity Literacy as the skills and understandings that enable us to recognize, respond to, and redress conditions that deny some students access to the educational opportunities enjoyed by their peers and, in doing so, sustain equitable learning environments for all students and families.

In 1964, the Supreme Court ruled in Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County that the County had to reopen its public schools on the grounds that it was still in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.23 By closing its public schools and subsequently subsidizing private academies that only admitted white students, the County, along with the state board of education and state superintendent, continued to deny black students the rights their white peers were provided.

A declaration that the State's funding scheme, which results in charter students receiving 60 to 75 cents on every dollar received by district students, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the New York State Constitution; A declaration that the State's funding scheme, which denies facilities funding to charter schools, violates the New York State Constitution; A declaration that the State's funding scheme, because of its overwhelming and targeted impact on minority students, unconstitutionally discriminates on the basis of race.

The Education Practices Commission may suspend the educator certificate of any person as defined in s. 1012.01 (2) or (3) for up to 5 years, thereby denying that person the right to teach or otherwise be employed by a district school board or public school in any capacity requiring direct contact with students for that period of time, after which the holder may return to teaching as provided in subsection (4); may revoke the educator certificate of any person, thereby denying that person the right to teach or otherwise be employed by a district school board or public school in any capacity requiring direct contact with students for up to 10 years, with reinstatement subject to the provisions of subsection (4); may revoke permanently the educator certificate of any person thereby denying that person the right to teach or otherwise be employed by a district school board or public school in any capacity requiring direct contact with students; may suspend the educator certificate, upon an order of the court or notice by the Department of Revenue relating to the payment of child support; or may impose any other penalty provided by law, if the person:

Washington, DC — The National Coalition on School Diversity (NCSD) and our partners are disappointed by Secretary of the Department of Education (DOE) Betsy DeVos» decision to eliminate funding for the Opening Doors, Expanding Opportunities (ODEO) grant program — denying parents and students an opportunity to reach a community consensus on the best methods of socioeconomic integration in isolated, struggling schools.

By denying these student representatives the primary tool of decision - making on school boards, these adults served to negate the voice of students and encouraged their use as merely a «stamp of approval.»

The yearslong districtwide scheme denied an untold number of students the right to a proper education by fraudulently boosted the district's test scores, attendance and graduation rates to meet federal accountability standards.

Indeed, as per a statement made by Ron Adler, president of the Ohio Coalition for Quality Education, not only is it «disappointing that ODE spends so much time denying that poverty and mobility of students impedes their ability to generate academic performance... they [continue to] remain absolutely silent about the state's broken report card and continually defend their value - added model that offers no transparency and creates wild swings for schools across Ohio» (i.e., the EVAAS system, although in all fairness all VAMs and the SGP yield the «wild swings» noted).

It is also the first statement that students will deny they ever made if confronted by School Administration.

The Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974 states, «No state shall deny equal educational opportunity on account of his / her race, color, sex or national origin by... the failure of an educational agency to take appropriate action to overcome language barriers that impede equal participation by its students in its instructional program» (20 U.S.C., Section 1703 (f)-RRB-.

OSEP found that some of the practices used by school districts to delay or deny initial special education evaluations for students included serving such students via a Section 504 plan or a dyslexia program, or requiring that a student first be provided Response to Intervention for a significant period of time.

Increasing student learning by growing the number of families choosing high quality charter schools so that no child is denied the right to a great public education.

One of the most common excuses given by the county board of ed for denying charter petitions is that the proposed school «isn't appropriate for special education and English Language Learner students».

The defendants lost the case last June when Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Rolf Treu struck down California's laws regarding teacher tenure, layoffs and dismissals by saying they deny students access to a quality public education.

Already, schools throughout the district are preparing parents, teachers, and students for the news on Tuesday that their schools may be denied, and explaining that the schools won't be closing and can be authorized by the county or the state after LA Unified rejects their petitions.

CCSA's vision is to increase student learning by growing the number of families choosing high quality charter schools so that no child is denied the right to a great public education.

By denying the data, communities are standing up for educators to be able to teach to the whole child, to respect and attend to the rich diversity of student interests and ways of learning and to teach in culturally relevant and developmentally appropriate ways.

It was timely, then, when in 2014 Campbell Brown and the Partnership for Educational Justice brought a suit called Wright v. New York that «was inspired by a California court decision a few months earlier, when a judge ruled the state's tenure protections denied California's students their constitutional right to a sound and basic education.»

that «was inspired by a California court decision a few months earlier, when a judge ruled the state's tenure protections denied California's students their constitutional right to a sound and basic education.»

When the courts ruled that seniority - based layoffs at these schools denied students their right to equal educational opportunity as guaranteed by the state constitution, many hard - core unionists were infuriated.

The case was brought by nine student plaintiffs who say the current state laws protect ineffective teachers and deny their constitutional right to receive a quality education.

But what happens when that student's voice sounds like something that has been produced by a system that, by its very nature, wants to deny authenticity of experience?

Tangi Academy will continue its work of educating their students, but moving forward will be difficult without the funds denied to them by TPSB.

We achieved this sign - on rate even though all participating LEAs will have to implement a bold set of policy and practice changes, including using student growth as one of multiple measures in evaluating and compensating teachers and leaders; denying tenure to teachers who are deemed ineffective as gauged partly by student growth; relinquishing control over their persistently lowest - achieving schools; increasing the number of students who are taught by effective teachers; and, in many cases, opening their doors to more charter schools.