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,…
More…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,…
More…case. The Cordero ruling, he said, came as “a relief to parents – and for that matter districts – that had struggled to find options for kids with complex disabilities.”…
More…Chester Upland Superintendent Gregory Shannon, who before taking the helm of the Delaware County district in 2013 was deputy chief of student discipline for the Philadelphia schools. Shannon and his…
More…money-hungry school districts argued today before the Commonwealth Court at Harrisburg. “We argued today in court the schoolchildren of Pennsylvania have an enforceable right to be heard,” said Maura McInerney,…
More…decision, the court ruled, as it has in prior lawsuits, that the question of school funding and what level of it is constitutional is a matter for the state legislature…
More…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…
More…Penn School District, Philadelphia parents, and others, ruling that education funding was a matter for the legislature and not the courts to decide. During oral arguments, lawyers arguing for the…
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…
More…succeed. It argues that the state’s system of funding public education is so inadequate and unequal that it violates state constitutional provisions requiring a “thorough and efficient system of public…
More…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…
More…payments Chester-Upland sends to charter schools. Without action, Wolf said Chester Upland’s almost $24 million operating deficit would prevent it from opening in September. “I, for the life of me,…
More…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:…
More…District of Lancaster (SDOL) has been illegally refusing to enroll older immigrant students with limited English proficiency (LEP) or diverting them to an inferior, privately operated disciplinary school, rather than…
More…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…
MoreThis FAQ explains a law known as Act 110 , which concerns students who are convicted or adjudicated delinquent of sexual assault. The law became effective on January 3, 2021,…
MoreMembers of Black, Brown, Asian , and Indigenous communities have been leading efforts to build affirming school environments and culturally responsive and celebratory curriculum for decades . They have also…
More…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…
MoreIn 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…
More…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,…
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…
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