Equal Educational Opportunity: Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, Second Session [and Ninety-second Congress, First Session], Volumen16

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Página 6816 - In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.
Página 6912 - The legislature shall maintain and support a system of free public elementary and secondary schools as defined by law. Every school district shall provide for the education of its pupils without discrimination as to religion, creed, race, color or national origin.
Página 6793 - The Legislature shall provide for a system of Common Schools, by which a school shall be kept up and supported in each district at least three months in every year : and any school district neglecting to keep up and support such a school, may be deprived of its proportion of the interest of the public fund during such neglect.
Página 7273 - Good luck is more important than hard work for success," "Every time I try to get ahead, something or someone stops me," and "People like me don't have much of a chance to be successful in life.
Página 6902 - Robert Coram, in a pamphlet devoted in part to a " Plan for the General Establishment of Schools throughout the United States...
Página 6818 - And, if a State should provide that the votes of citizens in one part of the State should be given two times, or five times, or 10 times the weight of votes of citizens in another part of the State, it could hardly be contended that the right to vote of those residing in the disfavored areas had not been effectively diluted.
Página 6815 - Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.
Página 6842 - Providence as those ways are manifested in the order of Nature and in the history of the race, which proves the absolute right to an education of every human being that comes into the world; and which, of course, proves the correlative duty of every government to see that the means of that education are provided for all.
Página 6815 - It is the very foundation of good citizenship. Today it is a principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values, in preparing Him for later professional training, and in helping him to adjust normally to his environment.
Página 6835 - Mclnnis in sustaining defendants' demurrers. The plaintiffs in Mclnnis challenged the Illinois school financing system, which is similar to California's, as a violation of the equal protection and due process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment because of the wide variations among districts in school expenditures per pupil.