webinar was developed for educators, school administrators, teachers, and advocates, and guides participants through the Legal Center on Foster Care and Education’s new tool on school discipline. This resource highlights…
More…local governmental entity offers universal, free preschool programing, and neither offers free transportation to enable preschool– age children to attend preschool, early learning, or daycare programs, except that, in general,…
More…opportunities in the School District of Lancaster. The opinion emanates from a federal class action lawsuit, Issa, et al., v. School District of Lancaster challenging the District’s treatment of immigrant…
Moreschool and the ways that racialized school discipline policies such as discriminatory grooming codes, subjective violations of schools’ codes of conduct, and the issuance of parental exclusion notices push Black…
MoreCommission’s Formula Proposal Makes Strides Towards Addressing Equity Gaps Restoring 2011 School Funding Cuts Must be the First Step For Immediate Release Contact: Deborah Gordon Klehr, [email protected] or 215-346-6920 June…
More…do we look at it?” Vereb said of education funding. “Do we look at it on a per-student basis; on a per-classroom basis? on a per-school-district basis?” Corbett is on…
More…to make meaningful progress in school. Bullying of a student with a disability on any basis may interfere with this critical right, and school districts must promptly and appropriately address…
MoreIn 2013, the Education Law Center (ELC) issued a report highlighting the impact of sharp reductions in the school nurse workforce in the School District of Philadelphia. School nurses who…
MoreArea School District in Luzerne County, Shenandoah Valley School District in Schuylkill County and Panther Valley School District in Carbon County are plaintiffs in the lawsuit seeking court action to…
Moreat Andrew Jackson Elementary last week. In the absence of a school nurse on duty (a nurse is present only on Thursdays and every other Friday), school staff called 911….
MoreMarch 31, 2014 – WHYY, Radio Times – New information released by the Department of Education shed more light on a disturbing difference when it comes to school discipline —…
Moreschool in Pennsylvania until the end of the school term in which you have your 21st birthday or until you graduate with a regular high school diploma (whichever comes first)….
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…
More…sponsoring organization of the Pre-K for PA 1 The Proposed Announcement adopts the definition of “suspension” and “expulsion” from Pennsylvania’s school code, applicable to school-age students. 22 Pa. Code Chapter…
More…instead of something essential to the success of ELL students. Funding cuts often disproportionately impact school districts with the highest needs. For example, the School District of Philadelphia serves 25%…
More2012-2013 school year, fewer than half of the state’s students were able to pass the Keystone graduation exams and three-quarters of school districts operated one or more schools that could…
MoreJune 30, 2017 LANCASTER, PA – Following a one-year legal battle over the placement of newly arrived older immigrant students, mostly refugees, in the School District of Lancaster, U.S. District…
More… The plaintiffs, which include six school districts and two statewide organizations, filed an appeal yesterday challenging a Commonwealth Court decision last month to dismiss the suit, claiming that school…
Moreor local organization that supports the idea of arming school personnel. Even the Pennsylvania government’s own research into school climate and school safety rejects guns in schools: a 2014 Pennsylvania…
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…
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