The moral claim behind school-choice mechanisms is that they increase disadvantaged students' access to such schools and such capacities.
SEEK's mission is to provide academically and economically disadvantaged students access to a college education and to help them find appropriate career opportunities.
MPs, lawyers and civil liberty groups have condemned the cost-cutting plans as an "erosion of justice" and warn that it will deprive society's most disadvantaged people access to a lawyer.
Join Deborah Bial, President of the Posse Foundation, Professor Brown-Nagin, faculty director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute, and a panel of experts for a discussion of programs designed to increase disadvantaged students' access to higher education.
The problem can be avoided "by improving disadvantaged families' access to information about schools, and also by restricting the possibilities for schools to skim off the best students through selective admissions criteria", as well as by putting more resources into schools attended by disadvantaged pupils.
There is an argument to be made that if transport systems were better all round then a wider variety of people would use them, but for someone from a disadvantaged community, access to affordable, reliable buses and trains can be the difference between getting to a job or not, or being able to take advantage of education opportunities that might aid social mobility.
Autonomous vehicles would not only give disadvantaged Americans access to better job opportunities, but also better access to schools, stores, and services.
Attending a selective college is widely seen as providing students, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, access to opportunities that are otherwise difficult to obtain.
Providing disadvantaged children access to a quality education raises their productive capacity and enhances social inclusion through higher employability.
