Yet the larger issue of access to equal education is in danger of being blurred by the far more complicated matter of just what happened to Ms. McDowell and her son, Andrew Justin Patches, a kindergartner.
With regard to choice of spouse, property rights, inheritance, choice of domicile, divorce and other matters pertaining to marriage and the family, laws shall be enacted from the standpoint of individual dignity and the essential equality of the sexes.There was plenty more, as she warmed to her mission: women's right to paid work, to custody of children, to equal education.
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I would have thought the point was that only public schools embody the American dream of an equal education for all, teaching American values unfettered by constraints of religion or class.
"This data collection shines a clear, unbiased light on places that are delivering on the promise of an equal education for every child and places where the largest gaps remain," U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in a statement.
In the case of Vergara vs. California, plaintiffs are seeking to overturn "last in, first out" layoff rules, contending they violate state constitutional guarantees of an equal education for students.
Having grown up in Chicago during the Civil Rights movement, Weigelt says that African Americans have never been fulfilled the promise of an equal education or the opportunity to accumulate wealth in the same way whites have.
As idealists, we were able to win a policy allowing children of migrant workers to continue their studies and remain with their parents, and yet the main impetus behind this change, the parents who lived and worked in Beijing without Beijing hukou, had not been able to secure for their own children the chance of an equal education.
Alas, with the privatization and charterization of our city's (and nation's) public schools, it is not inconceivable that Dewey, and the other schools mentioned, will literally be nothing more than "rest stops"—on the way to the eternal resting place of New York's legacy of free and equal education.
