Turzai Brief
…into law a new Basic Education Funding Formula, which was created and unanimously adopted by a bipartisan Basic Education Funding Commission after holding hearings throughout the state. The new funding…
More…into law a new Basic Education Funding Formula, which was created and unanimously adopted by a bipartisan Basic Education Funding Commission after holding hearings throughout the state. The new funding…
More…for students and educators, but Senate Bill 383 does just the opposite and puts our students in danger. Guns have no place in schools, and arming teachers and other school…
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…
MoreMarch 16, 2017 Kristina Moon, Staff Attorney Education Law Center-PA 1 Testimony to the School Reform Commission of the School District of Philadelphia: Meeting the Needs of English Language Learners,…
MoreEducation Law Center Staff Attorney Kristina Moon presented testimony on March 16, 2017 to the Philadelphia School Reform Commission on how the city’s schools can better meet the needs of…
More…legally entitled. Finally, we hope you will join us in calling on the General Assembly to revisit the recommendations made by the 2014 bipartisan Special Education Funding Commission. All public…
More…climate that is free from discrimination. The Philadelphia School Reform Commission adopted its policy on June 16, 2016. The Pittsburgh Public Schools Board unanimously approved its policy on June 22,…
More…that meet the needs of students and communities. We are pleased to see bipartisan support from the Basic Education Funding Commission and Wolf’s administration for the notion of a fair…
More…enrollment, poverty levels, and other factors, this has created huge inequities — favoring districts that have lost enrollment but have had to endure requisite funding decreases. In addition to actually…
More…middle,” Polito said of funding levels. “But we’re not.” Last year, the bipartisan Basic Education Funding Commission recommended a fair funding formula that would correct the situation in Erie. The…
More…students by giving them more out-of-school suspensions and placing them in lower-level courses. In the complaint to the U.S. Department of Education and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, the parents…
More…deserve and to which they are legally entitled. Finally, we hope the General Assembly will revisit the recommendations made by the 2014 bipartisan Special Education Funding Commission. All public schools…
More…enacted in this year’s budget. The money would be distributed using the fair funding formula created and adopted by the bipartisan Basic Education Funding Commission in June 2015. Statements from…
More…in each district.” In June, the campaign endorsed a fair funding formula proposed by the Basic Education Funding Commission. Although the formula has received general support in Harrisburg, debate continues…
More…students were receiving a fair and equal education. Hite responded with one word: “No.” He chuckled, and the auditorium erupted with laughter. But the level of inequity is no laughing…
More…• Further disenfranchises families and communities by transferring up to 15 Philadelphia schools from one majority state-controlled entity (School Reform Commission) to a different entirely state-controlled entity (Pennsylvania Department of…
More…ESSA falls short of this promise. In addition, despite the findings of a 2013 report of the Equity and Excellence Commission that Congress itself chartered, the bill fails to incentivize…
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More…adopted by the Basic Education Funding Commission. This is a thoughtful, well-crafted formula based on the real costs of educating students, but it is only as good as the funding…
More…The state’s Basic Education Funding Commission has taken on the task of developing a remedy responsive to the court ruling and has held a series of public hearings around the…
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