Funding Campaign. 10-6-2014. October 2014 Newsletter: ELC Kicks Off New School Funding Campaign. Release: ELC Joins New School Funding Campaign. 8-28-2014. August 2014 Newsletter: ELC Joins New School Funding Campaign….
More…Philadelphia office had a staff of just three but harbored the same big ambitions in education advocacy as its parent, the New Jersey-based Education Law Center, Inc., in Newark, N.J.,…
MoreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – August 7, 2018 Contact: Paul Socolar, Education Law Center, 215-906-1250, [email protected] Barb Grimaldi, Public Interest Law Center, 267-546-1304, [email protected] In new school funding lawsuit filings, Governor…
More…or to identify as a class member and receive monies for educational purposes contact: Jennifer Fox Rabold, Settlement Administrator Phone: 800-543-8921 Email:[email protected] McKeesport Settlement c/o Jennifer Fox Rabold Senior Counsel-Legal…
More…case was carefully reviewed in its entirety. In special education due process hearings, there is a world of difference between what is technically admissible and what is truly necessary to…
More…on the community, students, teachers and the district to help bring the numbers down. Great Public Schools — Pittsburgh, the Education Law Center and the Center for Third World Organizing…
More…on his education. After years of struggling in school, Walter was making progress with full-time special education instruction and counseling as a related service due to his emotional dis-regulation and…
MoreNov. 10, 2014 – Today six school districts, seven parents, the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools (PARSS) and the NAACP Pennsylvania State Conference filed a lawsuit in Commonwealth…
Moreacademic standards and thrive in today’s world. The Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia and the Education Law Center-PA are representing the petitioners. After the order was issued, lawyers for…
More…receive an appropriate and adequate program of language instruction, including assignment to the International School if appropriate, ESL instruction, modifications in the delivery of instruction and testing to facilitate their…
More…country – and the world – at one time. The suit maintains that youth housed at Glen Mills suffered at the hands of Glen Mills leadership and staff. Instead of…
MorePrevention Report to State Roundtable (2013) at p. 5, available at http://www.ocfcpacourts.us/assets/upload/Resources/Documents/2013%20State%20RT%20report%20on%20Educat ional%20Success%20and%20Truancy%20Prevention(9).pdf (Of 42 counties surveyed, nearly 80%reported that children living in congregate care settings with on-site schools “sometimes”…
More…on the most at risk students, including students with disabilities. Thank you for the opportunity to present public testimony today and for the Council’s good work on behalf of individuals…
More…legal director of the ACLU of Pennsylvania, which filed the suit along with the Education Law Center and others. Read the rest of the article in the New York Times….
More…LLP 1625 Eye Street, NW Washington, DC 20006 Brad M. Elias (pro hac vice) O’Melveny & Myers, LLP 7 Times Square New York, NY 10036 Telephone: (212) 326-2000 Counsel for…
MoreDepression and Suicide in Transgender Youths, UT NEWS (Mar. 20, 2018), https://news.utexas.edu/2018/03/30/name-use-matters-for-transgender-youths-mental-health/ (reporting transgender youth whose pronouns and names are respected have depression and suicidality rates that are much lower…
More…workbook). 15 See 20 U.S.C. 1232d(b)(3)(E); 34 CFR §§ 300.149, 300.600(e). 16 24 Pa. Stat. Ann. § 1-122 (West). https://elc365-my.sharepoint.com/personal/tvonoehsen_elc-pa_org/Documents/Education%20Law%20Center/Special%20Education%20Report/elc-pa.org/contact https://www.bls.gov/news.release/disabl.nr0.htm https://www.marketplace.org/2017/07/14/economy/what-unemployed-look Governors Letter – Special Education Report.pdf FROM: The…
More…cuts made under former Gov. Tom Corbett. Wolf and state lawmakers resumed talks on the budget at 2 p.m. today, the Associated Press reported. Read the article on Phillymag.com: http://www.phillymag.com/news/2015/07/01/gop-school-funding-philadelphia/…
MoreNov. 11, 2014 – By Robert Swift, Scranton Times-Tribune – A Wilkes-Barre mother joined school districts and advocacy groups Monday in a lawsuit calling for an end to sharp inequities…
MoreNov. 15, 2014 – Editorial, Delaware County Daily Times – It is an unfair, unlevel playing field. That’s not especially new. Even outgoing Gov. Tom Corbett, who became the poster…
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