Delco 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….
MorePublic News Source quotes ELC Legal Fellow Sean McGrath on the availability of early intervention services in the state of Pennsylvania. Read more here….
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…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…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….
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…
More…to reject remaining preliminary objections and a motion to dismiss asserted by the legislature so that the case can proceed directly and promptly to trial. Read the News Release here….
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…violence, including violence targeting Black students and LGBTQ+ students. What We’re Fighting: Discrimination in Students’ Access to Bathrooms and Sports Teams, Refusal to Respect Pronouns, Banning Pride Flags, Don’t Say…
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…
More…so critical that the PHRA is available as a tool to root out discriminatory pervasive bullying.” Read the news release here and the brief here. …
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…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…General 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…
More…to seek dismissal based on mootness, they fail to dispute in any way the growing disparities between high-wealth and low-wealth districts. Read more in this August 7, 2018, News Release….
More…step in the right direction, it in no way solves underlying problems. Students aren’t being given a fair opportunity to succeed, they rightly point out. Read the full story: http://cumberlink.com/news/opinion/editorial/our-view-fix-state-s-broken-education-system/article_899ffe28-0c41-11e3-b666-0019bb2963f4.html…
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….
MoreMay 16, 2014 – by William Bender and Solomon Leach, Philadelphia Daily News – Fifth-graders have been sent to kindergarten. An eighth-grader was banished to first grade. Draconian “behavior contracts”…
MoreMarch 9, 2014 – David Lapp, Special to the Sunday News – Significant problems exist with Pennsylvania’s current charter school policy, and we agree with state Sen. Lloyd Smucker that…
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