Sentences with phrase «toward equal opportunity»

Today, the Code is renowned for its progressive attitude toward equal opportunity and fair housing, surpassing the federal government's own laws prohibiting discrimination against various protected classes.

Handing another layer of protection to a female claimant also reverses all the gains women have made toward equal opportunity.

Despite the sharp decline in the share of academic course taking, indeed, because of this decline, education leaders in the 1940s and 1950s declared that significant progress was being made toward equal opportunity for education.

of this decline, education leaders in the 1940s and 1950s declared that significant progress was being made toward equal opportunity for education.

Growing Home combines direct service strategies with efforts to advance change to work toward equal opportunity.

Not exact matches

Individualistic countries value individual effort and achievement and thus are in favor of redistribution of family wealth toward creating more equal economic opportunities, independent of the social context (i.e., wealth of the family) into which one is born, which legitimizes high inheritance taxes.

The ideal that all people should have equal access to the material means of human fulfillment should be a goal toward which we move as fast as opportunity, prudence, and political reality allow.

When people in one nation are given knowledge of better ways of life in other nations, they have a basis for aspiring toward equal benefits and opportunities for themselves.

The City's Public Advocate noted that in an era of equality victories, Cuomo's action was another critical step forward toward ensuring that every person in New York State has an equal opportunity for a happy and fulfilling life.

Moore has been in hot water over a complaint filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that alleged Moore made remarks that were racist, and derogatory toward women and people with disabilities.

He implored PDP members to forget the past and work toward party unity and assured Ladoja and new PDP members of equal opportunity for all.

Not long after Brown, the courts began backing away from desegregation as a means toward equal educational opportunity.

As a result, the Coleman report failed to accomplish one of the key goals that led Congress to commission the report in the first place: a forward march toward equal educational opportunity across racial groups.

On April 16th, ROCI hosted an expert panel webinar on The Long Road Toward Equal Educational Opportunity for Rural Hispanic Students: New Insights and Strategies from Idaho.»

Establishing a high - quality UPK program is a critical first step toward creating equity in access to early education and ensuring that all children begin kindergarten with an equal opportunity to succeed.

He praised the Bush - era law for shining a light on academic disparities but said it should be revised to promote a well - rounded curriculum, equal opportunity for disadvantaged students and academic growth toward high standards.

The report's school accountability approach emphasizes two equally important goals for these new systems: 1) ensuring that accountability systems drive toward equal education opportunities by creating a system for identifying and acting on chronic low performance by particular groups of students and 2) ensuring that accountability systems are broadly framed in order to drive toward a comprehensive conception of student and school success and a culture of continuous improvement rather than just shame and punishment.

As educators and policymakers struggle to close gaps and ensure equal opportunity through education, however, many of the country's most talented young people — rich and poor alike — are left unable to surge ahead, languishing in classes geared toward universal but modest proficiency.

These developments begin to point the way toward a possible future when African American artists and other artists of color will be granted equal opportunities to influence the culture through visual art with the full support of institutions.

Since some of the case laws and guidelines from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) are shifting the emphasis on screening more and more toward individualized assessments, managing cost while maintaining quality requires close attention to process.

Thanks to the Fair Housing Act, we have made incredible strides over the past half century toward establishing a housing environment with equal opportunity for all.