…Assessment of Educational Progress, the “Nation’s Report Card,” “proficiency” rates in 2014 were below 50 percent for every racial and ethnic group, in both reading and math, in both fourth…
More…District would receive 18.9 percent, or about $75 million, of that new funding, said the advocates, who held a news conference in front of the district’s North Broad Street headquarters….
MoreCheck out this 7/9/17 national story from NBC News about charter schools. ELC’s Executive Director Deborah Gordon Klehr talks to reporter Craig Melvin about charter schools often failing to serve…
More…routine presence in American schools. The result is a dramatic increase in student arrests and the rise of the disturbing trend called the school-to-prison pipeline. The effect has been profound…
More…General Assembly. In November, six school districts, parents of schoolchildren, the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools and the state conference of the NAACP filed a lawsuit asking the…
More…of children in foster care. ELC is proud to be a founding member of the Legal Center for Foster Care and Education, along with the American Bar Association’s Center on…
More…further recognizes that an effective instructional program for ELs benefits from participation of the student’s parent/guardian. The within policy is adopted in order to establish practices and procedures for fostering…
MoreBY KEVIN MCCORRY, April 9 2015 – by Kevin McCorry, WHYY/NewsWorks – File this story under “wonky but important.” In an era where standardized test scores often determine a school’s…
More…and American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law. What the Law Requires Under ESSA, every State must describe the steps its State educational agency will take — in…
More…Law Center, Juvenile Law Center, Education Law Center, and the American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law. It is a resource for adults who serve justice-system involved youth…
More…programs provide sheltered instruction, intensive English language programs, and literacy skills in a context that introduces students to formal education and American culture. The District should expand newcomer programming at…
More…Education Savings Accounts (ESAs), a new and worse iteration of school vouchers proposed in SB 2, siphon precious taxpayer resources from already financially struggling public schools to private schools and…
More…that our youngest learners are not being suspended, expelled, and otherwise excluded from the learning environment. This is particularly important given that young African American children and children receiving, or…
Moreeven months — are missed. These youth, already facing traumatic changes in their home lives, must repeatedly adapt to new teachers, new classrooms and new peers. The results are heartbreaking….
More…know about exclusionary discipline in all public schools: That rates of exclusionary discipline are high. That African American and latino students, as well as students with disabilities and…
MoreJuly 19, 2016 – by Colin Deppen – PennLive The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed suit against a Lancaster school district arguing that the district has denied refugee…
More…matters, which have consistently recommended against an increase in the number of guns in schools. Other research supports their conclusion. A July 2018 article in the American Journal of Public…
More…for Disruptive Youth programs. The complaint cites four years worth of data showing a disproportionately high number of students with disabilities and African American students are removed from traditional public…
More…behalf of African-American students and students with disabilities seeking an investigation into statewide practices that result in the disproportionate placement of these students in alternative programs for disruptive youth. For…
MoreBased on the Education Law Center’s legal complaintthe U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation into discriminatory placement of students in Pennsylvania’s Alternative Education for Disruptive Youth programs. The…
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