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…25 for the culminating event of our yearlong celebration of the founding of Education Law Center in Pennsylvania 50 years ago in 1975. Become a Sponsor Today! For more information,…
More…25 for the culminating event of our yearlong celebration of the founding of Education Law Center in Pennsylvania 50 years ago in 1975. Become a Sponsor Today! For more information,…
More…District of Philadelphia, resulted in a consent decree requiring the district to improve its academic program: the district expanded English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) instruction; hired bilingual teachers,…
MoreThe Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association’s deference to the Trump administration’s discriminatory executive order targeting transgender and gender-expansive student-athletes is unlawful. The executive order does not carry the force of law…
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…can equitably enjoy a thorough and efficient public education as required by our state constitution. Today I would like to highlight one particularly broken piece of our school funding system:…
More…not able to get me services and supports due to lack of interpretation and translation in the IEP process. Today, I run a monthly support group for immigrant parents to…
More…in our schools PHILADELPHIA – Deborah Gordon Klehr, Executive Director of the Education Law Center of Pennsylvania issued the following statement today in the wake of Governor Wolf vetoing the…
More…even invited the student to return. But not every case yields such substantial results. “This is one out of tens of thousands. Investigations of this magnitude can be disruptive to…
MoreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 21, 2018 Contact: Paul Socolar, Education Law Center, 215-906-1250, [email protected] Jonathan McJunkin, Public Interest Law Center, 267-546-1305, [email protected] In victory for students, Court rules that Pa….
More…in Senator Scarnati’s Reply to Petitioners’ Opposition to Application in the Nature of a Motion to Dismiss for Mootness, filed today, August 3, 2018. DILWORTH PAXSON LLP By: /s/ Patrick…
More…needs came in a brief and affidavits filed in the case today by attorneys from the Education Law Center, the Public Interest Law Center, and O’Melveny & Myers LLP, refuting…
More…Commission today in its final meeting formally adopted an important change in the School District’s student conduct and discipline policy, extending the existing ban on out-of-school suspensions of kindergartners to…
More…the Education Law Center, released the following statement today in response to the Pennsylvania General Assembly’s proposed 2018‐19 state budget: The Pennsylvania General Assembly has sent Governor Tom Wolf a…
More…services; financial assistance, e.g., unemployment benefits and public assistance; and public infrastructure, such as road maintenance, availability of utilities and other matters. 22 Nonetheless, strict scrutiny is not applied in…
MoreFebruary 15, 2018 To the members of the School Reform Commission, The Education Law Center is a nonprofit legal advocacy organization dedicated to ensuring that all Pennsylvania’s children have access…
MoreFebruary 6, 2018 Statement on Governor Wolf’s Budget Address Deborah Gordon Klehr, executive director of the Education Law Center, issued this statement following Governor Tom Wolf’s budget address today: “We…
More…can be protected from discrimination, in compliance with federal laws. We write to underscore the importance of maintaining essential regulations and guidance that instruct and support schools to reduce the…
More…placed multiple former staffers at the Devos-led Department of Education. See Alyson Klein, Former Jeb Bush Foundation Staffers Working at Trump’s Ed. Dept., Education Week, Mar. 9, 2017, http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k- 12/2017/03/jeb_bush_foundation_staffers_trump_education_department.html;…
More…said in a statement. “Given today’s economic and political environment, we decided to work together to get something positive done.” Hughes said the budget plan steered closer to the governor’s…
More…underfunded public schools, six school districts including William Penn, Panther Valley, Lancaster, Greater Johnstown, Wilkes-Barre Area and Shenandoah Valley, the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools (PARSS), and the…
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