WmPenn_v_PDE_Response_to_PrelimObjs_2_17_15

factor supports abstention only in the rare circumstance where the text of the Pennsylvania Constitution entrusts the legislature with the power to self-monitor the constitutionality of its own actions. See…

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BestInvestment_Full_Report_6.27.11

to victims, court costs associated with the prosecution of crime, the costs of incarceration (infrastructure, staff, housing and food, counseling, prisoner education programs), the indirect economic costs associated with productivity…

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Erie School District on the brink of disaster

formula takes into account poverty, population and the number of English language learners and special education students to determine a more comprehensive formula. Those recommendations, along with a 2015-16 state…

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Black Girls Education Justice Initiative

real-time conditions in our schools, to address interlocking educational barriers and implement overdue powerful and transformative solutions that Black girls in our community have outlined for us.   As part…

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Amici Brief: PCCY et al

guarantees in the 13 constitutional text. The Washington Supreme Court, for example, noted that standards can offer “substantive content to … the broad educational concepts” contained in the constitution’s provisions….

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Zero Tolerance for Zero Tolerance

control how we interact with them.” The national mania for arresting students follows the trajectory of our national mania for incarceration that has finally started to wane, with bipartisan talk…

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