Sentences with phrase «unequal access»

In a statement, Deborah Veney Robinson, the group's vice president for government affairs, said she was «encouraged» by Duncan's «intention to focus new energy on the problem of unequal access to quality teachers.»

They suffer not only from unequal access to education and training, but also from discrimination by their employers.

«Across the nation too many of these children face unequal access to justice and it's time for others to step up.»

And while various troubling social factors, including unequal access to health care and the impact of the opioid crisis, have stalled the growth of the average U.S. life expectancy in recent years, odds are that America's higher earners will live longer — maybe much longer — than they expect.

Parents would not want to go back to a system built on unequal access to schools, but they don't want to be denied options in the interest of maintaining quotas or forcing all children in a neighborhood to attend the same school whether it meets their needs or not.

Lack of access to high quality summer learning opportunities has real consequences — more than half of the achievement gap between lower and higher - income youth can be explained by unequal access to summer learning opportunities.

Lord knows that much of the present crisis in unequal access to justice is due to the complexity and delays of the current system.

In Fault Lines, Rajan demonstrates how unequal access to education and health care in the United States puts us all in deeper financial peril, even as the economic choices of countries like Germany, Japan, and China place an undue burden on America to get its policies right.

Few studies have explored potential reasons for the racial disparity in ASD diagnosis, though some researchers have suggested unequal access to healthcare and clinician prejudice as explanations.

At least since the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, this has been interpreted to give the federal government the power to intervene in cases of legally sanctioned discrimination, like the segregation of public schools across the country; to mandate equal access to education for students with disabilities; and, according to some arguments, to correct for persistently unequal access to resources across states and districts of different income levels.

A good example is in Professor Clotfelter's post, where he writes that «economic segregation almost inevitably means unequal access to the best teachers and other resources.»

Whether we consider the title of the course offered or the more refined international grade placement indicator, U.S. schools clearly provided unequal access to 8th grade mathematics content.

Last August, the ACLU of Southern California and Public Advocates Inc. published Unequal Access: How Some California Charter Schools Illegally Restrict Enrollment.

From America's Wire: «Educators cite these causes for the disparity in performance: Lowered expectations for students of color Growing income inequality and lack of resources in low - income school districts Unequal access... Read More

The Education Equity Initiative identifies unequal access to quality public schools and works to increase opportunities for black and Latino students to receive a high quality education and for all students to learn in racially diverse schools.

Using historical and ethnographic methods, I argue that certain understandings of talent perpetuate unequal access to power by naturalizing a set of musical skills acquired through other means.

Advocates point to historical and contemporary unequal access to education as another reason to support school choice programs that free children from poor or struggling zip codes and allow them to attend better schools in other areas.

To realize charter schools» promise of providing educational choice to all, the ACLU SoCal and Public Advocates released Unequal Access: How Some California Charter Schools Illegal Restrict Enrollment, a July 2016 report that sheds light on exclusionary enrollment policies at 253 charter schools.

Time will tell how these initiatives, mixed with the townspeople's narrow view of affordable housing options, move toward solving the town's unequal access dilemma.

Problems included that it was being negotiated in secret with little information being disclosed, lobby groups were granted unequal access, and the substance of the agreement proposed heavy handed enforcement.

Because unequal access to legal expertise can prevent development we ensure everyone engaged in the fight against poverty has access to free legal support.

This draft is a detailed plan to develop school leadership aimed at strengthening and improving the public education system while addressing one root of the existing problem of unequal access to quality education — state and local leadership «capacity.»

And there are too many racially isolated schools with unequal access to preschool programs, advanced courses, and college counselors.

How much of this difference stems from unequal access to health care, such as regular screening and aggressive treatment, and how much is rooted in biology?

The study showed working poor and even middle - class single parents face unequal access to preschool services.

CEA and its members support the use of accurate measures of student learning, but object to the misuse of SBAC, a test that, for a variety of reasons (such as unequal access to technology) has failed to yield valid scores for the majority of students.

«When we talk about the equity gap, we have to also look at enrollment stratification,» said Nichols, which he says is a result of several factors, including unequal access to high - performing K - 12 schools as well as a misconceptions about what indicates that a student is eligible or «ready» for more selective colleges and universities.

Public television turns its cameras on education this month, airing specials that focus on unequal access to public education and the nationwide movement to make schooling more relevant to careers and jobs.

Specifically, we look at public defenders in the south, where low pay and heavy workloads raise questions about unequal access to justice.

For example, Balsen and Moore cite a 2007 study that found that «two ‐ thirds of the 9th [sic] grade reading achievement gap can be explained by unequal access to summer learning opportunities during the elementary school years.»

(See also this previous Croakey story featuring Archie and his physician, that discussed the impact of trauma and racism on health, and the experience of Indigenous peoples in unequal access to and treatment in the health system.)

The mainstay of the rentier is unequal access to finance.

Many learners today are challenged with increases in anxiety, inactivity, unequal access to healthy available food and disconnection from the natural environments is of serious concern.

As is the case in Bangladesh (and many developing countries), the poor are victims of structural injustice, with unequal access to assets and marginalized opportunities for human development; such is the fallacy of neoliberalism as opportunity: entry into the marketplace bears no promise of mobility when the terms of engagement are restricted to participation at the bottom-most level.

Equally, choice is proposed as a mechanism for greater control for the individual and higher standards of care, but brings the risk of unequal access to services.

They argued that candidates had unequal access to the electorate and that the electorate were not fully informed during the campaign, when some union ballots were distributed in partisan fashion.

Too many children who escaped horrific conditions are facing unequal access to lawyers across the country.»

That system has led to unequal access to organs, forcing some patients, especially those in high population areas, to suffer worsening illness and progress closer to death before receiving transplants.

«The fact that poor families have unequal access to child - care must be addressed by...

Michael Petrilli called the Department's recent warning that it would take a closer look at these within - district allocations «meddling,» but it's shameful that our public policies disproportionately place students of color in schools with poor lighting, unsafe or temporary structures, and unequal access to technology and curriculum.

The participation gap: unequal access to the opportunities, experiences, skills, and knowledge that will prepare youth for full participation in the world of tomorrow.

But surely poor and minority students have unequal access to all sorts of resources.

Speaking at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Culture Secretary Karen Bradley addressed the issue of unequal access to arts across the UK and focussed on the fact that people from disadvantaged backgrounds are under represented in the artistic professions.