…wrote anonymously in a school-climate survey that the teachers’ union, the Cheltenham Educators’ Association, delivered to high school and district administrators in February. “If teachers try to discipline them for…
Morefor a school district’s wealth. The relative lack of local wealth in communities serving at-risk students has led many school districts to tax their communities at markedly higher rates than…
Morepencil is not a weapon within the definition of the School Code or the Pittsburgh Public Schools’ Code of Student Conduct. The Court agreed with the Education Law Center’s attorneys…
Moremonth, Philadelphia education advocates on Wednesday called on the state legislature to pump $400 million in new money into 2016-17 school budgets. If the request becomes reality, the city School…
MoreCharter schools are public schools and cannot discriminate against students. Charter schools must comply with the same enrollment requirements applicable to district schools. This demand letter, provided to Franklin Towne…
MoreOur public school funding system fails to provide enough resources to educate all students to academic standards, produces racial disparities and a wide gap between the wealthiest and poorest schools,…
Morethem transition from school to post-school-life. ELC highlighted the need for additional transitional training and support services for Philadelphia schoolchildren with disabilities and highlighted the role of inadequate state funding…
More“Not only has Pennsylvania’s new school-funding formula failed to remedy disparities between wealthy and poor public school districts, the spending gap between such districts has grown, according to a filing…
Morechild’s education and future. Moving through these four steps will help you enroll your child in a public school (including a charter school and cyber charter school) as soon as…
Moreschool libraries for student achievement. Members of the committee also heard testimony on the results of a 2011 study by the State Board of Education assessing Pennsylvania’s public school libraries….
Moreexperience of other states that school funding lawsuits have been strikingly successful at moving the needle toward fairness,” she wrote. “Decisions in such lawsuits spur more state revenue for schools,…
MoreELC Research and Policy Fellow Ian Gavigan’s testimony presented to Philadelphia City Council on the importance of predictable school funding to serve the most at-risk children in the Philadelphia School…
MoreThe Education Law Center applauds Pittsburgh Public Schools and the School District of Philadelphia for protecting the rights of transgender students with new policies enacted this month. The two largest…
MoreOn Wednesday, March 14, students nationwide participated in a National School Walkout to show solidarity with Parkland students and bring attention to Congress’s inaction towards gun violence. View our National…
MoreELC Executive Director Deborah Gordon Klehr writes about the bias in school discipline against students of color and argues that school suspensions in under-resourced schools often do more harm than…
More…woefully underfunding our schools, in violation of the Pennsylvania constitution,” said executive director Deborah Gordon Klehr in a statement. Philadelphia School Advocacy Partners executive director Mike Wang offered a more…
Morediscuss the latest updates from Harrisburg. While school funding issues impact all children, we hope this forum will kick-start a dialogue on what school funding means for the most at-risk…
Moreschools in the state. And perhaps he would have considered that the intent of Pennsylvania’s charter school law is to create additional choices to our school district schools, not to…
MoreFairness in Charter School Discipline What do we know: Charter schools are subject to the same federal and state laws and regulations surrounding school discipline as district schools …
MoreApril 30, 2019 Superintendent Gregory Frigoletto Wayne Highlands School District 474 Grove Street Honesdale, PA 18431 Re: Rights of Transgender Students Dear Mr. Frigoletto: As education advocates, we write to…
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