…board, I recognized the challenges. Nearly 87 percent of our students live in poverty, including approximately 1,000 homeless children. We are confronting ever-increasing unfunded mandates from both the federal and…
More…right to attend school where you live if certain conditions are met. Use this form to determine whether the child living with you is eligible to enroll in the school…
More…Absences, THE NEW REPUBLIC (Mar. 6, 2015), https://newrepublic.com/article/121186/truancy-laws- unfairly-attack-poor-children-and-parents …………………………………………………. 18 DEBORAH FOWLER ET. AL., TEXAS APPLESEED, CLASS, NOT COURT: RECONSIDERING TEXAS’ CRIMINALIZATION OF TRUANCY 14 (2015), https://www.texasappleseed.org/sites/default/files/TruancyReport_ All_FINAL_SinglePages.pdf ……………………………………………………………..passim…
More…• with physical risk factors associated with learning or developmental complications; • who live in residential facilities; • who are involved in substantiated cases of child abuse or neglect or…
More…room; in contrast, the District’s regular education classrooms are typically grouped by grade and instruction level. 25. The instructional program provided to C.K. in the Auberle-student classroom is more limited…
More…boy for an out-of-whack education funding system courtesy of brutal cuts enacted in his first years in office, agrees. That’s why earlier this year he asked the Legislature to set…
More…T.P. v. McKeesport Area School District, Case No. GD-10- 019236. Did you live at the Auberle Group Home at any time from October 14, 2008 to January 1, 2011? …
More…a caregiver such as a grandparent, a relative, or a family friend. Like other youth, these children have the right to go to school in the district where they live….
More…to a peak of $28,400 per pupil, advocates said. “We have a problem here in Pennsylvania,” said Maura McInerney, attorney with the Education Law Center-PA. “We have hundreds of thousands…
More…a student with a disability pursuant to the IDEA. He attends both the regular high school and the Career Institute of Technology in the Electrical Construction Technology Program and is…
More…Valley – the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools (PARSS) and the NAACP Pennsylvania State Conference. “Pennsylvania’s public school children are entitled to have their day in court. The…
More…Families who can afford it – who live in the right zip code – have a choice.” But Cooper argued that the expansion of magnets and charters exacerbate what is…
More…Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools. The parties claim the state has a school funding system that “does not deliver the essential resources students need and discriminates against children…
More…it overruled “without prejudice, preliminary objections concerning the nature of the constitutional rights at issue and the corresponding level of judicial scrutiny to be applied.” It also deferred ruling on…
More…education in Pennsylvania violates the state Constitution. The Petitioners are six school districts, the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools, several parents of school-age children, and the Pennsylvania State…
MoreJan. 20, 2016 – the Philadelphia Public School Notebook – by Michael Churchill, Deborah Gordon Klehr, Susan Spicka Earlier this month, Gov. Wolf approved emergency funding to allow schools to…
MoreMay 25, 2016 – Newsworks WHYY: Keystone Crossroads – by Kevin McCorry Pennsylvania will soon join the overwhelming majority of states that have a student-based formula for distributing state education…
More…of the level of disruptive behavior . . . , lends support for the hypothesis that there is a bias against Black students in [disciplinary referrals].”); Russel J. Skiba &…
MoreDelco News Network quotes ELC Legal Director Maura McInerney in an article on Governor Wolf and Senator Joe Scarnati’s opposing briefs on the legal status of ELC’s school funding lawsuit….
More…Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (“Section 504”), schools reflexively refer students and their families to Truancy Court—resulting in additional lost instruction time. Not only is the referral to Truancy…
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