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The civil rights movement brought about controversies on busing, language rights, desegregation, and the idea of “equal education". [1] The groundwork for the creation of the Equal Educational Opportunities Act first came about with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which banned discrimination and racial segregation against African Americans and women.
Cienfuegos, a non-profit group teaching art to people with disabilities in Cuba. Universal access to education [1] is the ability of all people to have equal opportunity in education, regardless of their social class, race, gender, sexuality, ethnic background or physical and mental disabilities. [2]
The United States secretary of education is a member of the president's Cabinet and is the fifteenth in the United States presidential line of succession. [4] This secretary deals with federal influence over education policy, and heads the United States Department of Education.
In 1990, the United Nations created the Education for All (EFA) Declaration. This was a recognition of the inequalities faced by children all over the world in the provision of quality education. Inequalities are created by cultural, geographic, and political factors that continue today to impede equal access to education.
The Equal Access Act has also been used to fight opposition to gay-straight alliances in high schools across the nation. [4] Administration in high schools who have opposed the formation of gay-straight alliances, and formally denied their organizers privileges and the right to assemble, found themselves being sued and caught in legal disputes.
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The right to education has been recognized as a human right in a number of international conventions, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which recognizes a right to free, primary education for all, an obligation to develop secondary education accessible to all with the progressive introduction of free secondary education, as well as an obligation to ...
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