…specifically enumerated as a protected class, transgender status or gender identity are included within the PHRA’s prohibition of sex discrimination.2 Similarly, case law interpreting Title IX, the federal law prohibiting…
More…guidance counselors, social workers, reading specialists and coaches,” said Joseph Bruni, superintendent of the William Penn School District, one of the petitioners in the case. “Classrooms are overcrowded and we…
More…of maintaining critical due process protections in PA school discipline proceedings, especially for Black girls, students with disabilities, and LGBTQ students. This case will be argued on May 18, 2021….
More…state ‒ but that commitment was not enforced and was abandoned decades ago.” Read her full op-ed published in Pennlive on November 5, 2021. Learn more about our case here….
More…school safety. Attorneys from Education Law Center-PA and the Public Interest Law Center, representing school districts, parents, and organizations in a case challenging Pennsylvania’s system for funding public schools, released…
More…glaring example of explicit and illegal discrimination,” said Margie Wakelin, staff attorney at the Education Law Center. “Unfortunately, it is not an isolated case. Charter schools, just like district schools,…
More…1973 (Section 504). This fact sheet provides an analysis of that case, Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools , and prior decisions addressing the right to damages for students with disabilities….
More…and only books and lessons describing the lives of straight cisgender people are acceptable in public schools. The school district defended the educator but settled the case in a manner…
More…of high school and take the GED, regardless of their disability or need for support,” said McInerney. “In one case, a 19-year-old student with significant disabilities received no education at…
MoreThis case applies the “least restrictive environment” requirement of IDEA to preschool children.
More…Judge Dan Pellegrini. In 1999, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court found that two lawsuits challenging how Pennsylvania funds its schools could not be decided by the courts, saying in a case…
More…It didn’t work. Commonwealth Court rejected the suit, and the state Supreme Court in 1999 refused to hear an appeal. Now school funding advocates are looking for a rematch. A…
More…with Cheryl Kleiman, Staff Attorney for the Education Law Center, one of the attorneys in the case. And Kevin McCorry WHYY Senior Education Writer who is contributing to the NPR…
More…1. On December 27, 2017, Senator Scarnati filed the Mootness Application, asking the Court to dismiss this case as moot. 2. On March 7, 2018, the Court heard oral argument…
More…their website or in their Code of Student Conduct. If not, you should call the school and request a copy. You Have the Right to Present Your Complaint To Your…
More…that the adoption of a school funding formula in 2016 renders the case moot. In briefs filed August 3, Gov. Tom Wolf also rejected the mootness claim, saying that funding…
More…Interest Law Center will ask the Court to reject remaining preliminary objections and a motion to dismiss asserted by the legislature so that the case can proceed directly and promptly…
More…allow superintendents and other petitioners who filed the case against state officials additional time to provide up-to-date specifics to supplement the evidence and testimony gathered during earlier stages of the…
More…their website or in their Code of Student Conduct. If not, you should call the school and request a copy. You Have the Right to Present Your Complaint To Your…
More…pleased to have obtained this result for our clients and future immigrant students,” said Kathleen Mullen, Pepper Hamilton’s lead lawyer in the litigation. The case is Issa v. School District…
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