…can be best communicated to school administrators and teachers. • Increase program monitoring. Ensure the state has sufficient staffing, resources, and leadership to implement thorough school district audits and evaluations…
More…exclusionary discipline practices that disproportionately impact students of color and students with disabilities. A December 18, 2018, report from the Federal Commission on School Safety, led by Education Secretary Betsy…
More…all students in Pennsylvania – especially in the face of an administration that is refusing to enforce them.” Read our December 18, 2018 statement on the discipline guidance here. https://www.elc-pa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Statement-on-School-Safety-Commission-Recommendation-to-Rescind-Federal-Discipline-Guidance.pdf…
More…19 Fogleman v. Mercy Hosp., Inc., 283 F.3d 561 (3d Cir. 2002) ……………………………………………………………………. 16 Foti v. Askinas, 639 A.2d 807 (Pa. Super. Ct. 1994) ……………………………………………………………. 6 Gaudino v. Stroudsburg Area…
More…of transgender students to be free from discrimination and to be affirmed in their gender identities in public schools.1 The Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission (PHRC) recently clarified that, while not…
More…will continue a major push to get the state to adequately and equitably fund its schools. In the coming months, ELC will also be looking to build on recent victories…
MoreELC applauds the adoption of the Pennsylvania Human Rights Commission’s final regulation putting in place new significant new nondiscrimination protections for Pennsylvania students. It provides important protections for LGBTQ students, who…
MoreEducation Law Center attorneys presented testimony to Pennsylvania’s Joint State Government Commission on Aug. 17, 2023, with recommendations about Act 138 of 2016, which substantially changed the truancy provisions of…
More…“By recognizing that minor children should not be subjected to a short, 180-day statute of limitations in filing claims with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, the court has affirmed the…
More…Commission We Need Supportive Spaces That Celebrate Us: Black Girls Speak Out About Public Schools Watch our recent trainings and presentations: Hot Topics for School Boards: Learn the Law &…
More…access to all school programs for students with disabilities, also applies to ELLs by resolution of the School Reform Commission. • ELL students with special education needs must receive all…
More…with a government commission charged with recommending a school funding formula. The school districts bringing the lawsuit are William Penn School District in southeastern Pennsylvania, the School District of Lancaster,…
MoreAugust 11, 2016 School Reform Commission School District of Philadelphia 440 North Broad, Suite 101 Philadelphia, PA 19130 Dear Chairperson Marjorie G. Neff and Commissioners, Every year in Philadelphia, too…
More…comes as Gov. Wolf has proposed millions more dollars to school districts across the state, and a bipartisan commission has been holding hearings to develop an education-funding formula, which Pennsylvania…
More…the appeal for an increase in the state’s basic education funding to adequately allocate dollars and to revisit the recommendations made by the 2014 bipartisan Special Education Funding Commission. Click…
More…programs which includes different application review process and waiver of certain testing on a case-by-case basis. By board resolution of the School Reform Commission, this process is also applicable to…
More…billion. The school district share was $603 million. 150. These allegations constitute conclusions of law to which no response is required. With regard to what a Commission member stated, after…
More…Public Utilities Commission, 563 A.2d 593 (Pa. Cmwlth. 1989) ………………………………………………………….. 3-4 In re Gross, 382 A.2d 116 (Pa. 1978) ………………………………………………………………. 3, 4, 9, 17 Harris v. Rendell, 982 A.2d 1030…
More…2016. The District’s School Reform Commission in June 2018 formally changed the School District’s student conduct and discipline policy, extending the existing ban on out-of-school suspensions to cover grades 1…
More…Commission today in its final meeting formally adopted an important change in the School District’s student conduct and discipline policy, extending the existing ban on out-of-school suspensions of kindergartners to…
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