…discrimination complaints and have been used to enforce issues such as school desegregation and access for the disabled. It is too early to identify the effects of the new civil…
More…welcoming and accommodating environment. Target Completion Date: June 2020 • The ESL Department will network with one or more school districts to model best practices for general communication between EL…
More…people deemed unworthy of embodying in their Constitution. We cannot avoid our responsibility to monitor the General Assembly’s efforts in service of its mandate and to measure those effects against…
More…and nationally, in a disproportionate manner against students of color. To reduce the harmful and discriminatory effects, the School District of Philadelphia must curtail its reliance on exclusionary discipline in…
More…to have far-reaching effects on public schools in the city. The SRC has been assuming that it has special powers to suspend parts of the school code and charter law…
More…showing that while African-American boys make up 18% of preschool enrollment, they make up 48% of preschoolers suspended more than once. Expulsion and suspension have significant negative effects on the…
More…than their peers who are consistently misgendered). 8 Among the transgender people who responded to one study about restroom access, 54% reported adverse health effects from trying to avoid using…
More…their educational experience and spoke to the grave and preventable violence it causes. Please check out our one-page report summary of the report. Caregiver exclusion notices: Parents have the right…
More…Programs October 26, 2015 3 In short, given the significant negative effects of exclusionary discipline and the disparate impact of discipline practices on young children in early childhood programs, we…
MoreAbout: The PaSCC is a network of stakeholders who wish to communicate and collaborate on improving school climate and dismantling the school-to-prison-pipeline in their communities and throughout Pennsylvania. Originally created…
More…allocating funds that are appropriated for the basic education subsidy, the Commonwealth uses factors that Act 35 of 2016 requires it to use. 2. The allegations in this paragraph are…
More…information, please contact: Karen U. Lindell Juvenile Law Center [email protected] (215) 625-0551 ext. 137 Jamie Ray-Leonetti Disability Rights Pennsylvania jray-leonet[email protected] (215) 238-8070 ext. 219 Gabriella LaBella Disability Rights Pennsylvania [email protected]…
More…the district currently uses exclusion from school at “alarming rates” for its littlest learners. A coalition of advocates wrote to Superintendent William R. Hite Jr. and the School Reform Commission…
More…is “self-defined” by its inherent capabilities and that the manner in which a student uses an object cannot convert an otherwise non-weapon, like a pencil, into a weapon. Cheryl Kleiman,…
More…and magnet schools. The panel members debated how to interpret the constitution’s mandate that the state provide “thorough and efficient education” for all of its students. Mark Gleason, of the…
More…— for the first time in the Commonwealth — a funding formula for special education that uses accurate student counts and addresses actual student needs. Advocates from 40 different organizations…
More…(often called data), uses the wrong tests, misidentifies a child’s disability, recommends something the parent disagrees with, or otherwise lacks needed information to ensure that a proposed IEP will meet…
More…Plaintiff Students of a Meaningful Education Through Denial or Delays in Enrollment and Placement at Phoenix Causes Them Irreparable Harm……………………………………………………………..44 Page -ii- B. SDOL Is Not Irreparably Harmed by Providing…
More…with Notes of Testimony (“N.T.”), Jacques Blackman, Aug. 22, 2016, 9:27 AM-12:34 PM, 55:20-56:18. Phoenix is a little different. It focuses primarily on credit recovery for those students who are…
More…the district violated federal laws when it kicked the eighth- and 12th-grade students out of the district they had attended all of their lives. Read the full story: http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/easton/index.ssf/2013/12/lawsuit_easton_area_school_dis.html …
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