…enroll the student plaintiffs in the regular high school, McCaskey. The School District appealed that order to the Third Circuit. “Our refugee clients came to America with a vision that…
More…the judge is expected late in 2022. Read more about the case here. FundOurSchoolsPA.org is a website devoted to the lawsuit jointly produced by the Education Law Center and our…
More…well-established research and best practices to promote regressive school policies. The Education Law Center works with students and parents to battle high rates of suspensions alongside leaders in civil rights,…
Moreillegal and dangerous policy. Read about the brief here. The presence of guns in schools and arming of untrained school staff pose significant safety risks to schoolchildren and communities and…
MoreBut a few have chosen to help with some of the worst. Parents of public school students can call the The School Discipline Advocacy Service which pairs law students from…
MoreMay 20, 2015 – David Limm, Philadelphia Public School Notebook – Several school districts, parents, and groups have taken a lawsuit alleging Pennsylvania’s school funding system to be unconstitutional to…
MoreThe Education Law Center submitted testimony to a March 15, 2018, Pennsylvania House Education Committee hearing on school safety. We urge officials to reject militarized responses to school violence and…
MoreCenter attorney Michael Churchill said. “The school districts who have joined our lawsuit know this is true, and students in underfunded schools know this is true. The legislature has the…
Morestate Department of Education and state officials over what they claim is an “irrational school-funding system.” The schools, including Panther Valley School District, filed a lawsuit Monday along with The…
MoreSchools will be forced to eliminate 125 full-time positions to strip away $8.9 million. With an enrollment of 11,815, Erie schools have a high percentage of students who don’t speak…
More…PA Ass’n of Elementary & Secondary School Principals (PAESSP) PA Ass’n of School Business Officials (PASBO) PA Ass’n of School Administrators (PASA) PA Ass’n of Rural and Small Schools (PARSS)…
More…“school engagement” issue. To solve it, schools and courts must incentivize students to re-engage in school rather than push them further away. Truancy is often a reflection of the need…
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…
More…school discipline. Under No Child Left Behind, schools faced harsh consequences if students failed to achieve on high-stakes testing. This focus on standardized test scores incentivized schools to push out…
Morecommunity services. Truancy must be recognized as a “school engagement” issue. To solve it, schools must incentivize students to re-engage in school rather than push them further away. Truancy is…
MorePa Funding Lawsuit edfundinglawsuit.wordpress.com November 10, 2014 Executive Summary Lawsuit: Pennsylvania School Funding Unconstitutional Six school districts from across the Commonwealth, an association of 150 rural and small schools, as…
MoreCourt Judge Edward G. Smith today signed a consent decree requiring the district to educate immigrant students in its main high school, McCaskey. The class-action lawsuit, initiated on behalf of…
MoreA school library helps each school meet its mission of each student learning and achieving academic success. A school library helps teachers teach and students learn; it promotes information literacy…
More…to be free from discrimination based on race, color, or national origin applies to many issues including: • Admission to charter schools and local neighborhood schools; • School transfers; •…
MoreGeneral Assembly. In November, six school districts, parents of schoolchildren, the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools and the state conference of the NAACP filed a lawsuit asking the…
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