January 08, 2014 – Solomon Leach, Philadelphia Daily News – The battle over fair and equitable school funding in Pennsylvania will soon be headed back to court, activists said yesterday….
MoreJanuary 6, 2015 – Philadelphia Daily News – by Ronnie Polaneczky IN PHILLY, if your child is late to school often enough, you may be hauled into Truancy Court to…
MoreApril 21, 2015 – by Solomon Leach, Philadelphia Daily News – COMMONWEALTH Court yesterday dismissed a lawsuit accusing the state of failing to adequately and equitably fund Pennsylvania public schools….
MorePennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools and the NAACP Pennsylvania State Conference. The Commonwealth Court ruling was the latest in a long line of Pennsylvania state court decisions basically…
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…Coatesville — had a disparity of 20 percentage points or more between the percent of African Americans in the district and the percent of African Americans placed in the districts’…
More…our joint news release: December 4, 2020 — Today, parents and a community organization in Chester Upland School District (CUSD) filed an emergency motion to suspend a process to outsource…
Morebrought by Philadelphia that the judicial branch could not overturn legislative decisions on education. Legislative Republicans praised Tuesday’s ruling. “Today’s decision by a unanimous Commonwealth Court validates our position that…
MoreApril 21, 2015 – by Joel Mathis, Philadelphia Magazine – A Commonwealth Court ruling overturning a challenge to Pennsylvania’s method of funding schools will be appealed to the state’s Supreme…
MoreMay 20, 2015 – Matt Miller, The Patriot News / PennLive – A coalition of parents, school districts and public interest groups filed an appeal Wednesday with Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court…
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/…
MoreNot even a snowstorm could halt the momentum of ELC’s Fair Funding Lawsuit, as advocates from ELC, PILC, and pro bono counsel O’Melveny and Myers argued today that objections filed…
More…its constitutional mandate.” “Today’s ruling ensures that our schoolchildren across Pennsylvania will finally have their day in court,” said Deborah Gordon Klehr, executive director of Education Law Center – PA,…
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More…remains true today. III. PETITIONERS’ CLAIMS ARE BARRED BY SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY AND SEPARATION OF POWERS. A. Petitioners’ Demand For A Mandatory Injunction Is Barred By Sovereign Immunity. The Commonwealth, its…
More…the plan’s completion. The NCLB required the reporting of student achievement data that was broken down by subgroups such as minorities, English Language Learners, special education and economically disadvantaged students….
More…matters, which have consistently recommended against an increase in the number of guns in schools. Other research supports their conclusion. A July 2018 article in the American Journal of Public…
More…know about exclusionary discipline in all public schools: That rates of exclusionary discipline are high. That African American and latino students, as well as students with disabilities and…
More…Philadelphia African-American Leadership Development Program and the Coro Fellows Program. She has served on the board of the New York Urban League and is currently a member of the Clementine…
MoreFeb. 22, 2017 The Education Law Center released the following statement in response to the Trump Administration’s withdrawal of federal Title IX guidance: The Trump Administration’s withdrawal of 2016 guidance…
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