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There have been challenges concerning the use of _________ testing for determining placements in regular and special education classes. These suits allege that such tests are racially and culturally biased and results in erroneous placement that stigmatizes children.
Although federal courts historically have permitted different rules for males and females, differential treatment of male and female athletes cannot be justified by unfounded and unsupported perceptions about either sex regarding _________, endurance, and ability.
Racial segregation that happens “by fact” rather than legal requirement (i.e. often the concentration of race in certain neighborhoods results in neighborhood schools mirroring the population, segregated in fact (de facto) although not by law (de _________ ).
The composition of the student body, faculty and staff, _________, extracurricular activities and facilities are the six elements analyzed for racial distinctions.
Courts can require nearly anything of districts and states that would result in fulfillment of _________ of public schools.
Plessy v. Ferguson was an 1896 Supreme Court decision that upheld _________ _________ of passengers in railroad coaches as required by Louisiana law (“separate but equal”).
According to legal definition, classifications based on ___ are specific to having male or female reproductive systems.
Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students _________.
_________ ___ states that “No person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”
Where separate programs for pregnant students are available, the student may volunteer but may not be automatically enrolled or coerced. The school district may require the student to obtain statement from a _________ attesting that she is physically and emotionally able to continue in general education.
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Rationales used to justify the consideration of ___ include: States’ rights to limit programs to a specific ___; Administrative need to project enrollment; Cost of assessing learning readiness; Difficulty meeting a wide range of individual needs; and desire for children to develop emotionally, socially and psychologically prior to admission.
Equal opportunity to education prohibits _________ across race, native language, ability, age and sex.
Specific to employee to student _________ _________: for there to be an award of damages, an appropriate official must have actual knowledge of the inappropriate conduct and then fail to ameliorate the problem. Failure to respond must qualify as deliberate indifference.
Title IX explicitly permits separation of students by sex within _________ sports, though school districts have discretion in their efforts to provide equal athletic opportunities for males and females.
The Equal Protection Clause of the ___ _________ (1868) establishes that no state shall deny to any persons within its jurisdiction equal protection under the law and eventually led to the Supreme Court decision that helped dismantle racial segregation.
_________ is one of the leading states in mandating programs for gifted and talented students, but there are limits: The law does not require exclusive individual programs outside or beyond the district’s existing, regular, and special education curricular offerings (e.g. college tuition for a child within compulsory school age) and does not impose a duty to maximize a child’s potential.
The freedom-of-choice plan (1968) was adopted in order to eliminate race-based assignments but ultimately did not achieve racial integration within schools. The district was was ordered to enact a plan that would realistically work with immediacy to eliminate racial identification and those six elements to do so are still used today as the _________ criteria.
Under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act (1964) discrimination against _________ minorities is considered a form of national origin discrimination.
Two exceptions where classes may be segregated by sex: Physical education classes during participation in contact sports; and portions of classes that deal exclusively with human _________.
Courts endorsed reasonable _________ as a means to integrate, but stated that the plan must be evaluated based on time involved, distance traveled, and age of students.