…just to keep their already-underfunded doors open. The result, repeated again and again since long before today’s ongoing budget impasse, is that Pennsylvania has the widest funding gap between wealthy…
More…Elementary into a Renaissance school run by Mastery Charters—is that underneath it all, it was a dramatic retelling of the same old story. On the one side were desperate parents…
More…wasn’t supposed to take, all because he wanted a girl’s “digits” – her phone number. He told administrators he expected to be suspended, the usual punishment for breaking the rules….
MoreFor more information, contact Paul Socolar, [email protected], 215-906-1250 Statement on School Safety Commission Recommendation to Rescind Federal Discipline Guidance December 18, 2018 – The widespread problem of racial discrimination in…
MoreDistrict, which has cut hundreds of millions from its budget and still approached the new school year facing roughly a $300 million dollar budget gap. Read the full story: http://axisphilly.org/article/breaking-down-claim-of-historic-education-funding-under-corbett/…
More…through February 2015, the Student received 3.5 to 4.5 hours of homebound instruction per week. S-56. 59. In February of 2015, the Student returned to LA with bus transportation and…
More…apprentice with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers IBEW in order to become a licensed electrician. 3. K.C. and M.C. are parents of the named plaintiffs who bring this lawsuit…
More…International School (now re-named Newcomer Program). In late January of this year, a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the injunction. The consent decree…
More…12 from this program, he intends to apprentice with International Brotherhood of Electrical IBEW next year in order to become a licensed electrician. N.C. also has a specific learning disability…
More…evidence does support the 21 “Evident” is defined as “clear to the understanding: OBVIOUS, MANIFEST, APPARENT” or “CONCLUSIVE.” Webster’s Third New International Dictionary 789 (2002). 25 Board’s finding; however, this…
More…and its Newcomer Program designed for first-year ELLs (formerly known as the International School). And now, the School District of Lancaster is looking at spending more than half a million…
More…times in the neck. The ruling means the suspension will not appear on her permanent record. The Barack Obama International Academy student, who was 14 when the incident occurred May…
MoreNewsletter: Back-to-School 2017 ELC Newsletter: July 2017 ELC Newsletter: June 2017 ELC Newsletter: May 2017 ELC Newsletter: April 2017 ELC Newsletter: March 2017 ELC Newsletter: February 2017 ELC Newsletter: January…
MoreOct. 6, 2014 – The Education Law Center, along with more than 40 other organizations, today launched a new campaign for fair education funding for all of Pennsylvania’s K-12 public…
MoreFebruary 6, 2018 Statement on Governor Wolf’s Budget Address Deborah Gordon Klehr, executive director of the Education Law Center, issued this statement following Governor Tom Wolf’s budget address today: “We…
More…are being supported in their education during COVID-19 school closures. The latest letter highlights innovative strategies and promising practices that, if promoted by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, could help…
More…for Sept. 29. Read our latest press release about the case. To stay abreast of the case, go to the Fund Our Schools PA website, a joint project of the Education Law Center and…
MoreNov. 24, 2014 – The Education Law Center submitted a letter to Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Education Carolyn Dumaresq urging her to reject the latest round of cyber charter school applications…
More…pushing [rule-breakers] away; you’re going to find a way to engage them.” That doesn’t mean adopting a permissive attitude toward disruptive actions. Greenblatt summed it up this way: “In a…
Morethe latest move in a long-running attempt to bring a chronically deficit-ridden district back to financial health. “We keep asking the state to give us more,” said Chester Upland’s school…
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