Federal law requires school districts to appoint surrogate parents within 30 days to represent unaccompanied students throughout the special education process. It also permits school districts to authorize shelter staff…
More…in Priority Area Three: Stopping the School-to-Prison Pipeline 1 Reduce exclusionary discipline practices in both regular and charter schools. These include suspensions, expulsions, transfers to disciplinary alternative schools, and school-based…
MoreThe Education Law Center-PA stands with the Tamaqua Area Education Association and many in the Tamaqua school community in eastern Pennsylvania in opposing their school district’s new policy allowing teachers…
More1 No. 17-2886 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT G.S., a minor, by his parents, J.S. and E.S., Appellee, v. Rose Tree Media School District,…
Moreexposure through drinking water in schools is of particular concern. Some city school systems have proactively addressed this issue by eliminating water fountains in schools. More information is needed to…
Morethe Parkland massacre. Major school shootings have not been perpetrated by Black students. Reductions in out-of-school suspensions began well before 2014, as advocates effectively moved school districts away from zero-tolerance…
MoreEqual Protection Clause, and to cease implementing a school-funding arrangement that does not assure that adequate, necessary and sufficient funds are available to school districts to provide their students with…
Morerights.” School districts across Western Pennsylvania are slowly changing their policies to better protect transgender students from discrimination and bullying. Some, such as North Hills School District, have updated non-discrimination…
More…time you spoke to them! Ask the School to Take Action Get your school district’s bullying and/or harassment policy. Write a letter to the school principal describing the…
MoreCall your school district’s bullying hotline. Write a letter to your school board and/or speak at a board meeting. What Should You Do If Your Rights Are Violated •…
MoreCall your school district’s bullying hotline. Write a letter to your school board and/or speak at a board meeting. What Should You Do If Your Rights Are Violated •…
MoreDistrict should examine policies and practices that hinder equal access for parents and students such as the use of an on-line school selection process for accessing high schools, School Advisory…
MoreDecember 12, 2013 – by Peter Panepinto, The Express-Times – Two Easton Area School District students who were kicked out of the district on Monday because they are homeless and…
MoreMay 3, 2017 – WHYY Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane Last year, the Philadelphia School District ended most out-of-school suspensions for kindergartners. However, thousands of elementary school children—first through fifth…
More312: 1569-1575. After detecting elevated levels of lead in water from school drinking fountains, the Baltimore City Public School system decided to turn off all school drinking fountains and switch…
Moreschool. PaSCC works to ensure that schools have a positive school climate as opposed to a negative one characterized by an over-reliance on exclusionary policies (expulsions, suspensions, transfers, use of…
More27, highlighting the centrality of resource issues for the school district. “The fact that Philadelphia schools simply don’t have enough resources is in part a Harrisburg problem, but it’s one…
More…the case are six families, six school districts – William Penn, Panther Valley, Lancaster, Greater Johnstown, Wilkes-Barre Area and Shenandoah Valley – the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools,…
Morethe district’s ability to provide these needed services. View ELC’s full testimony here: October 2018 School Board Testimony. Reynelle Brown Staley testifying at the Philadelphia School Board Action meeting. …
Moreserving a comparable population to district schools, which raises doubts about any claims that traditional charter schools outperform district schools. The concentration of more advantaged students in traditional charter schools…
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