Your Rights Disability 8.2017

…your disability—and even then for only forty-five (45) days. • Before a school may change your educational placement for violating a school rule, your IEP Team, which should include you,…

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Supporting & Affirming LGBTQ+ and Nonbinary Students

…in 2024 to strengthen protections for students. The 2024 rule clarifies that Title IX prohibits discrimination and harassment based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics; reaffirms the rights…

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Glen Mills Class Action Press Release

…failed to differentiate instruction or accommodate his disabilities and included no live instruction. Walter told Glen Mills staff that he could not learn in this manner and refused to participate…

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ELCOpenLetterTransRights

…Fellow EDUCATION LAW CENTER -PA 1315 Walnut Street, Fourth Floor Philadelphia PA 19107 [email protected] 215-238-6970 Cc: Lee Krause, Esq. 7 See generally M. Dru Levasseur, Esq., Gender Identity Defines Sex:…

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Remembering Vivian Narehood

…how voluminous.  Her belief that what she was doing mattered to struggling children and their families gave her the tolerance and patience to process mounds of educational data to find…

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School Funding Trial Has Concluded

…case, where our lawyers submitted briefs about the legal issues in the case. And after oral argument on the legal issues took place on July 26, 2022, the case was…

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J.S. v. Manheim Township School District

In the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. ELC joined with ACLU Pennsylvania in filing an amicus brief in support of a student who was expelled for off-campus speech in J.S. v. Manheim…

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Defending the Right to Learn and the Freedom to Read

…legislative efforts in Pennsylvania in 2023 to protect the freedom to read and curtail book banning. Read ELC’s advocacy letters opposing the book ban policies proposed at Blackhawk (October, 2023), Central Bucks (May,…

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