of advocating for increased court referrals, local judges should be pushing for smart school climate reforms that dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline while making schools safer. Read the complete letter: http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/letters/2013/11/21/A-criminalized-school-climate-is-the-wrong-path/stories/201311210127…
MoreOthers are serious enough to refer to the legal system. But the Pittsburgh Public Schools’ Code of Student Conduct hardly seems to know the difference. Read the full story: http://www.post-gazette.com/editorials/2013/06/22/Class-project-The-city-schools-conduct-code-is-due-for-a-rewrite/stories/201306220114…
Morewould have received $360 million more in state aid this year and would not be in a fiscal crisis now, an expert said Wednesday. Read the full story: http://www.philly.com/philly/education/20131010_At_symposium__a_call_for_more_state_education_funding.html …
Morea reality, the state must adopt a school-funding formula that ensures that individual school districts receive the resources they need to properly educate our children. Read the full story: http://www.philly.com/philly/education/20131101_It_s_time_Pa__gave_schools_their_fair_share.html…
MoreBy Patriot-News Editorial Board – At school board meetings across Pennsylvania, the ramifications of Gov. Tom Corbett’s proposed public education budget cuts are sinking in. Read the full story: http://www.pennlive.com/editorials/index.ssf/2011/04/education_cuts_some_districts.html…
Morediferentes de aprendizaje temprano, incluso Early Head Start y Head Start, Infant and Toddler y Preschool Early Intervention, y Pre-K Counts, y proporciona información para padres sobre desarrollo infantil y…
MoreCenter is available to provide free training to groups of parents, early childhood educators, social workers, and others on the entire guide or portions of the guide. For more information…
MoreAEDY programs and the fact that students often languish in these programs for years, without supports for transitioning back to a traditional setting or completing high school. Monitoring of these…
Moreand statewide organizations alleging that the state’s school funding system violates Pennsylvania’s constitution, due to significant underfunding and gross disparities in allocations that penalize students in low-wealth districts. The ruling…
Moreis patently offensive. We are aware of no schools within the Commonwealth that interrogate the sexual orientation of cisgender students before permitting them to utilize sex-segregated facilities. transgender students in…
Moreaccess to fundamental resources and services in the areas of public education, housing, health care, employment, environmental justice and voting. For more information visit www.pubintlaw.org or follow on Twitter @PubIntLawCtr…
Morerequired to provide compensatory education for denials of the educational rights of students with disabilities. Following an investigation that spanned multiple months, PDE issued two Complaint Investigation Reports (IEP and…
Morethe three high schools mentioned in this story, and includes scores on the state school performance profile – an index mainly composed of performance and growth on state tests. http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/homepage-feature/item/80533-beyond-failing-schools-the-difficulty-of-fairly-comparing-public-schools-on-an-uneven-playing-field?linktype=hp_impact…
Moreand a national clearinghouse for information on foster care and education. For more information visit fostercareandeducation.org or follow on Twitter @FosterEdSuccess. Juvenile Law Center is the world’s oldest non-profit, public…
More“They’re expected to meet state standards, yet the state legislature has failed to provide enough resources to meet those standards. … This is going to change their life trajectory.” http://www.phillymag.com/news/2015/04/21/pennsylvania-school-funding-suit-supreme-court/#pFUkKj0uJBqYaIqr.99…
Moreand equitably distributed. Adam Schott is director of policy research at Research for Action.aschott@researchforaction.org David Lapp is a staff attorney at the Education Law Center. [email protected] Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20150723_Before_reform__fund_properly.html#GQVG7H9ARMe1gliS.99…
Moreto the student or family, those related aids, services or accommodations which are needed to afford the student equal opportunity to participate in and obtain the benefits of the school…
Moreat Black and Brown students. We support flexibility in the spending of additional school safety resources so that local communities can implement proven anti‐violence programs, trauma‐informed approaches, and positive interventions…
MoreELC Staff Attorney Alex Dutton. “We look forward to working with the District to attempt to resolve the individual and systemic concerns raised in the Complaint to the benefit of…
More800 Children Starting Kindergarten Department of Education responds to complaint filed by the Education Law Center, orders School District of Philadelphia to take corrective action PHILADELPHIA, PA (October 20th, 2017)…
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