…color. Her testimony urged the General Assembly to increase funding for classroom instruction and target state increases to chronically underfunded communities. Read her testimony here and a news article here….
More…below the average percentage of students with IEPs for all charter schools in Philadelphia. Read our news release here. Read the complaint here. Read media coverage here, here, and here….
More…for basic education and a $100 million increase in special education funding, to be distributed to districts through the existing funding formulas. Read our letter, press release, and news coverage….
MoreDelco News Network quotes ELC Legal Director Maura McInerney in an article on Governor Wolf and Senator Joe Scarnati’s opposing briefs on the legal status of ELC’s school funding lawsuit….
More…in 2024 to strengthen protections for students. The 2024 rule clarifies that Title IX prohibits discrimination and harassment based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics; reaffirms the rights…
MoreFollowing the Trump Administration’s executive order rescinding the “sensitive locations” policy that barred Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from conducting enforcement actions at schools, playgrounds, and bus stops, the American…
MorePublic News Source quotes ELC Legal Fellow Sean McGrath on the availability of early intervention services in the state of Pennsylvania. Read more here….
MoreApril 25, 2017 – Public News Service PA – by Andrea Sears HARRISBURG, Pa. – Legislation to reform charter schools in Pennsylvania could come up for a vote any day…
More…for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System. The report details the problems facing tens of thousands of youth on any given day in our country when it comes to their…
MoreCheck out this 7/9/17 national story from NBC News about charter schools. ELC’s Executive Director Deborah Gordon Klehr talks to reporter Craig Melvin about charter schools often failing to serve…
MoreIn a statement on the Pennsylvania budget, ELC welcomes the news from the General Assembly that state funding for basic education, special education, and pre-K in the coming school year…
Morebeing eliminated, Denton Record Chronicle (June 2015) http://www.dentonrc.com/news/state/2015/06/20/criminal-truancy-courts-for-students-being-eliminated http://youthlaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Truancy-Research.pdf. https://www.texasappleseed.org/sites/default/files/TruancyReport_All_FINAL_SinglePages.pdf http://www.publiccounsel.org/tools/assets/files/Counterproductive-and-Wasteful-Los-Angeles-daytime-curfew-report_FINAL.pdf. 4 • Confine a person in parental relation to a child who is habitually truant only as a last…
More…charged after students find her loaded gun in bathroom, Public Opinion (Sept. 13, 2016), https://www.publicopiniononline.com/story/news/2016/09/12/teacher-resigns-after-child-finds-her-loaded-gun- school/90280916/ (last accessed Dec. 20, 2018). Confusing Legal Authority about Security Personnel and the Possession…
More…District would receive 18.9 percent, or about $75 million, of that new funding, said the advocates, who held a news conference in front of the district’s North Broad Street headquarters….
More…would even meet that target, yet you have some that have struggled academically for years. I would hope this legislation would get very serious about addressing that, so we’re not…
More…truancy issues, that may arise. You may also contact the Education Law Center directly by following instructions available here. You can learn more about ELC’s mission here. Parent Resources The…
More…Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (“Section 504”), schools reflexively refer students and their families to Truancy Court—resulting in additional lost instruction time. Not only is the referral to Truancy…
More…released a statement on the Pa. Department of Education’s finding that the Philadelphia School District violated the rights of at least 800 incoming Kindergarten students. Read the news release here….
More…of Philadelphia (“District”) to promptly and appropriately address pervasive and severe bullying of students with disabilities as exemplified by the stories of multiple students. Read the news release here. …
More…Legislative respondents continue to oppose the case moving forward; Senator Scarnati filed a brief blaming poor school districts for their own underfunding. Read the joint news release by ELC and…
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