Statement on PA Basic Funding Commission Delay
The Campaign for Fair Education Funding has issued the following statement on the announcement by the Basic Education Funding Commission that it needs more time to complete its recommendations: It…
MoreThe Campaign for Fair Education Funding has issued the following statement on the announcement by the Basic Education Funding Commission that it needs more time to complete its recommendations: It…
More…All case documents can be viewed here: https://edfundinglawsuit.wordpress.com/ # # # The Education Law Center of Pennsylvania works to ensure that all children in Pennsylvania have access to a quality…
More…case in 2016. All case documents can be viewed here: https://edfundinglawsuit.wordpress.com/ # # # The Education Law Center of Pennsylvania works to ensure that all children in Pennsylvania have access…
More…don’t mean anything,” said David Seropian, business manager for the McKeesport Area School District. “If the numbers come to fruition then we would be pleased.” Sto-Rox Superintendent Terry DeCarbo said…
More…or, if they persist, assigns them to Phoenix Academy, an alternative high school for “underachieving” students run by a private company, Camelot Education. According to the complaint, Phoenix Academy is…
More…the evidence, 8, Aug. 15, 2014 [2] See http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/news_and_media/7234/p/1237291 [3] See American Institutes for Research, Educational equity, adequacy, and equal opportunity in the Commonwealth: An Evaluation of Pennsylvania’s School Finance…
More…reputation and, ultimately, its survival, comparing and judging schools based on results has become a commonplace ritual. Parents often use the scores as a North Star for deciding where to…
More…way of communicating with those around you. This was the isolated world of one of the Education Law Center’s clients, 9-year-old Billy (not his real name). Billy is a child…
More…‘adequacy.’” The Commonwealth Court heard arguments on this case on Wednesday, March 11th. You can find the full complaint here, and watch a short video on the lawsuit below. http://www.otlcampaign.org/blog/2015/03/18/pennsylvania-districts-file-suit-against-state…
More…to a “thorough and efficient” education, attorneys told a Commonwealth Court panel Wednesday. The plaintiffs in the case are six school districts, parents from five districts (including Philadelphia), the Pennsylvania…
More…Rogers Company Pittsburgh Richard Karcher Parent and Community Activist Shippensburg Tonya Trembly Karcher Parent and Community Activist Shippensburg Diane L. Kirk, Ph.D. Department of Administrative and Policy Studies, School of…
More…Republicans shot back claiming exactly the opposite. Gov. Corbett, said his campaign manager Mike Barley, has put “more state funding to education than any time in our Commonwealth’s history.” It’s…
MoreApril 15, 2014 – by Julia Bergman, Axis Philly – Ask the average Philadelphian what their top concern is and they’re likely to say education. The city has become a…
More…practices for children with disabilities in a non-traditional school community. The webinar is free and is hosted by the Institute on Disabilities at Temple University. Registration is required: http://ow.ly/qtVtk …
More…16 cyber-charter schools, which teach home-based students via the Web, would spend a lot less per student than bricks and mortar schools. Not so. Read the full story: http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/component/flexicontent/item/63557-temple-prof-pa-cyber-charters-turning-huge-profits-sending-tax-dollars-out-of-state?linktype=hp_impact …
MoreIn June 2012, after granting expedited review and oral argument en banc, the Commonwealth Court dismissed as moot ELC’s Emergency Petition for Mandamus filed on behalf of families facing potential…
More…in the school finance area is, at best, unclear. • Marrero v. Commonwealth of PA: http://www.schoolfunding.info/states/pa/MARRERO.pdf • PA Association of Rural and Small Schools v. Commonwealth of PA Policy Issues…
MoreAugust 7, 2013 – by Christina Samuels – The Pennsylvania-based Education Law Center filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice today, saying that young people with disabilities and…
More…the state Supreme Court. An appeal filed Wednesday by the plaintiffs seeks to force the state’s highest court to hear a case dismissed last month by Commonwealth Court. In that…
More…arguing that the state had failed to provide a constitutionally-mandated “thorough and efficient” system of public education for students. A Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court denied the petition last month. The coalition…
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