…school shootings that result in an increase in police presence in schools or calls to make our schools look and feel more like prisons. Recent history has taught us this…
MoreAugust 22, 2016 We commend the School Reform Commission for restricting the use of suspensions against Kindergarten students and for adopting a revised dress code policy that removes subjective language…
Morestudents in many schools. In particular, this year we are hearing about reductions in ESL support at schools with high EL populations and the absence of daily ESL instruction for…
Morecommunities with the funding needed to have a quality education? Money matters to student achievement. Test scores and graduation rates in high-spending school districts are much higher than in low-spending…
More…points out that the money sent by Chester-Upland School District to charters for special-ed is “disproportionately higher than any other school district sending students to the same schools.” “This is…
Morethe district’s regular high school. The plaintiffs include six refugees aged 17-21 from Somalia, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Burma who have fled war, violence, and persecution in their…
Moredaughter’s high school psychologist, a meeting that took place entirely in English. Expecting to talk about her daughter’s ADHD, what she found out instead was that the re-evaluation classified her…
More…schools, and other extreme school discipline practices lead to high rates of suspensions, expulsions, and arrests of students. As a result, large numbers of youth are pushed out of school…
More…sponsoring organization of the Pre-K for PA 1 The Proposed Announcement adopts the definition of “suspension” and “expulsion” from Pennsylvania’s school code, applicable to school-age students. 22 Pa. Code Chapter…
Morewe know that school attendance is a critical issue facing young people and families across the Commonwealth, particularly in school districts facing reductions in resources used to support truancy prevention…
MoreOn Feb. 7, 2023, Commonwealth Court Judge Renée Cohn Jubelirer issued a historic ruling in the Pennsylvania school funding case, declaring the PA school funding system unconstitutional. “All witnesses agree that every child…
MoreAn episode of Smart Talk from WITF (Harrisburg) reviews the status of the school funding court case with guests Mallory Falk, WHYY Philadelphia education reporter; Brenda Marrero, executive director, Public…
Morewho do not wish to attend charter schools, and it does not require an evaluation of whether or not a bidder will provide a higher quality education than district 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…director 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…
More2014. The new policy will go into effect when school resumes later in the month. The Law Center worked with parents, students, and community advocates to recommend the new policies…
More“Over more than four weeks of testimony, the landmark trial in the challenge to Pennsylvania’s school-funding system has featured superintendents and teachers from rural, urban, and suburban communities describing cash-strapped…
MoreThe Education Law Center of Pennsylvania and the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia filed suit in Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court on November 10, 2014 on behalf of six school districts,…
MoreThe Education Law Center of Pennsylvania and the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia filed suit in Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court on November 10, 2014 on behalf of six school districts,…
Morethrough school despite the fact that Black and Latino students are no more likely to violate school rules than their White peers. “Out-of-school suspensions are developmentally inappropriate for our youngest…
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