Sentences with phrase «to discriminate against students»

The new language says that a charter school shall not discriminate against any student on the basis of ethnicity, national origin, gender, or disability.

And the bill explicitly states that religious schools that take vouchers will be allowed to discriminate against students based on gender and teachers based on religion.

Public charter schools are free and open to all students, and the schools are not allowed to hand - pick or discriminate against students for any reason.

Students representing majority tend to impose their authority on minority representatives and willingly or under peer pressure discriminate against students representing the minority.

It would discriminate against students on the basis of their socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity, family history and certainly prohibits most special education students from attending.

And religious schools can discriminate against students based and gender and teachers based on religion.

Not to mention legal mandates — which you'll note I purposefully didn't even broach until now — which, of course, require that public charters not discriminate against students with disabilities.

Not to mention legal mandates - which you'll note I purposefully didn't even broach until now - which, of course, require that public charters not discriminate against students with disabilities.

The charter network came under fire this week with a new complaint accusing them of discriminating against students with special needs.

In state after state, district after district, charter schools discriminate against students who require special education services, students who need help learning the English language and students who have disciplinary issues.

Wyoming, for instance, expressly prohibits charter schools from discriminating against students with special needs in enrollment decisions.

If real public schools discriminated against students based on their ethnicity, language skills or special education needs, the Courant and every other respectable media outlet, as well as every education and community advocacy organization would be calling for investigations and prosecutions.

According to the Department's website, anti-poverty legislation and the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s brought about the emergence of the Department's equal access mission.10 This mission includes ensuring that publicly funded schools are not discriminating against students by race, sex or disability.

Schools receiving Opportunity Scholarship funds discriminate against students on the basis of religion and sexual identity.

The office investigates also whether schools» student discipline policies discriminate against students of color, and if schools are adhering to Title IX guidance barring discrimination against transgender students.

The idea, in short, is that the same principle that suggests Christian students should be allowed to form groups with particular identities also means that Vanderbilt has a right to corporately discriminate against student groups at odds with its values

We need to continue to examine how we're disciplining so we can ensure that we're not discriminating against students in the process.

The court found that the state unconstitutionally discriminated against students attending Colorado Christian University (CCU) and Naropa....

The undemocratic class bias in education extends even farther than the tests that automatically discriminate against students from the lower social and economic strata of society.

Perhaps the correction of this longstanding injustice will prompt Yale's medical school to stop discriminating against students who reject modern medicine in favor of voodoo.

Washington — The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a federal law that prohibits high schools from discriminating against student religious groups violates the First Amendment's ban on state establishment of religion.

But Chad Ganden and his parents say those rules discriminate against students with learning disabilities.

In January 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Education (ED) jointly released a «Dear Colleague Letter» containing guidance on how schools should avoid discriminating against students on the basis of race when administering disciplinary action.

«The present educational - funding system seriously discriminates against some students and significantly interferes with their right to equality of educational opportunities,» the three - justice majority wrote.

Ball also reported that officials with the N.C. School Boards Association have identified private schools across the state that openly discriminate against students and families despite receiving public funding, putting gay parents in the position of having their tax dollars paying for schools that have a policy of refusing admission to their children.

The Dear Colleague guidance letter on civil rights and discipline, prepared in conjunction with DOJ, describes how schools can meet their legal obligations under federal law to administer student discipline without discriminating against students on the basis of race, color or national origin;

Washington's justification for discriminating against students like Michael, Rachael and Skyler is a pair of state constitutional provisions with dubious origins: «All schools maintained or supported wholly or in part by the public funds shall be forever free from sectarian control or influence.»

«Parents don't know that Celerity can actually discriminate against students.

The initial complaint alleged that the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program discriminated against students with disabilities.

In 2011, opponents of parental choice asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the Milwaukee voucher program for allegedly discriminating against students with disabilities.

Like all standardized tests, the Common Core SBAC discriminates against students who come from poor households, students who are not fluent in the English language and students who have special education needs.

[23] Despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that states may not discriminate against students enrolling in K - 12 public schools on the basis of their legal status, clear guidelines do not exist for higher education.

At a meeting held at the Department of Education (ED) in Washington today, conservative groups, parents and some teachers asked the Department to rescind federal guidance issued under the Obama administration, ensuring that school districts aren't discriminating against students through their discipline policies and practice.

By law, charter schools can not have admission processes that unlawfully discriminate against students.

The complainants alleged that Webber Academy discriminated against the Students by not allowing them to perform short prayers on campus in accordance with their religious beliefs.

Registration — refusing to accredit professional programs, in the public interest: Courts in three provinces have moved forward to address the power of law societies to refuse to accredit a Christian law school, based on a public interest concern about the school requiring students to sign a covenant abstaining from sexual intimacy outside of marriage between one man and one woman — a covenant that would effectively discriminate against students of certain sexual orientations.

According to the guidelines schools still «violate Federal law when they evenhandedly [emphasis added] implement facially neutral policies» that were adopted with no intent to discriminate «but nonetheless have an unjustified effect of discriminating against students on the basis of race.»

Later, when testifying before the House Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies in defense of the budget proposal, Secretary DeVos declined to say whether the Department of Education would intervene if schools receiving federal funding discriminated against students.

The Court agreed with the AHRC that Webber Academy's policy discriminated against the Students.

When charters claim to out - perform public schools they are not making those claims from an even playing field and are discriminating against students who require alternative evaluation methods or who have difficulty taking standardized tests.

Charter schools in Massachusetts have always been prohibited — as a matter of state and federal law — from discriminating against students with special needs or English language learners.

Acted for a BC school board in a human rights matter brought by parents of a dyslexic child who alleged that the school district had discriminated against the student by failing to provide adequate accommodations

At her confirmation hearing, DeVos refused to say whether she would deny federal funds to private schools that discriminate against students based on sexuality, race or special needs.

and the schools are not allowed to hand - pick or discriminate against students for any reason.

Voucher schools discriminate against students with special needs and have a track record of «counseling out» under - performing students and sending them back to public schools.

A UCLA newsletter has cited evidence that charters discriminate against students with disabilities.

Extera Public Schools do not discriminate against any student on the basis of ethnicity, gender, national origin, or disability.