ELC Elanco Open Letter
February 12, 2019 School Board of Directors Eastern Lancaster County School District 669 East Main Street New Holland, PA 17557 Re: Rights of Transgender Students Dear Board Members: We write,…
MoreFebruary 12, 2019 School Board of Directors Eastern Lancaster County School District 669 East Main Street New Holland, PA 17557 Re: Rights of Transgender Students Dear Board Members: We write,…
Moredirector of After-School All-Stars Philadelphia, providing access to out-of-school time programming to under-resourced schools. As deputy director of the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations, she led the city’s efforts to…
More…by the School District of Philadelphia (“District”) to promptly and appropriately address pervasive and severe bullying of students with disabilities as exemplified by the stories of multiple students. Read the…
MoreThe Education Law Center has successfully filed a complaint against the School District of Philadelphia on behalf of hundreds of students with disabilities who were not provided with needed services…
Moretransitioning to full District control. The vote, which was unanimous, came after hearing from parents and advocates for disabled students who want a firmer commitment from the School District to…
MoreThe Education Law Center (ELC) filed amicus briefing in Nicole B. v. School District of Philadelphia, et al., a case involving a Philadelphia student who was relentlessly bullied because of…
MoreCommission 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…
Morefactors like district size and sparsity, local tax effort and district wealth, and charter school enrollment. • Ensures that all districts receive minimum funding increases while the new formula is…
MoreDistrict’s Annual Charter Evaluations indicate that vulnerable student populations are underserved by the charter sector. The letter endorses the School District’s efforts to build a more robust Charter School Office….
More…Achievement Charter Elementary School vs. the School District of Philadelphia and the School Reform Commission. The Court held that the General Assembly, in passing Act 46, which granted the SRC…
More§ 300.322(e) and (f); 34 CFR§ 300.503(c)(1)(ii). 2 Right to Attend School Right to Be Free From Bullying & Harassment in School Rights of English Language Learners (ELLs) in School…
Moreschool nurse layoffs have affected the safety of all of our children as schools are left without any coverage as school nurses are pulled in and out of schools.” “Children…
Moreof 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…
Morein the school finance area is, at best, unclear. • Marrero v. Commonwealth of PA: http://www.schoolfunding.info/states/pa/MARRERO.pdf • PA Association of Rural and Small Schools v. Commonwealth of PA Policy Issues…
Moreor local organization that supports the idea of arming school personnel. Even the Pennsylvania government’s own research into school climate and school safety rejects guns in schools: a 2014 Pennsylvania…
More…courtroom. The lawsuit, William Penn School District vs. Pennsylvania Dept. of Education, seeks to remedy decades of inequitable education funding that have robbed children of the resources they need to…
Moreand suburban communities describing cash-strapped schools — including Delaware County’s William Penn district — that struggle to meet state academic standards.” Read this recap from the Philadelphia Inquirer’s education reporters….
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,…
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…
Moreto maintain basic resources like nurses, librarians and counselors. And while school boards can raise local property taxes in an attempt to cover the shortfall, many districts (such as those…
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