School Funding Lawsuit Advances
state legislative leaders and moved our school funding lawsuit closer to trial. Read about the Court’s decision and our next steps for resolving underfunding and gross inequalities in Pennsylvania’s schools….
Morestate legislative leaders and moved our school funding lawsuit closer to trial. Read about the Court’s decision and our next steps for resolving underfunding and gross inequalities in Pennsylvania’s schools….
MorePennsylvania Commonwealth Court will hear oral arguments next Wednesday in a landmark lawsuit challenging inequitable and inadequate school funding in Pennsylvania. Attorneys from the Education Law Center and the Public…
More…Legislative respondents continue to oppose the case moving forward; Senator Scarnati filed a brief blaming poor school districts for their own underfunding. Read the joint news release by ELC and…
Morestate, school district, and school level. The Campaign further recommends that PDE be given sufficient resources to implement the accountability system, including the resources and tools necessary to support schools’…
MoreEducation 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…
MoreSchool boards play a pivotal role in shaping the education that public school students receive. School boards are accountable to the residents of the district they serve and who elected…
MoreAnd while the cause of death for a first-grader at Andrew Jackson School has not been determined, both cases demand that we take a hard look at the impact the…
Morethe group POWER last summer – says Pennsylvania’s inequitable school funding isn’t just a matter of low-income versus high-income, but of race. Read the full article at the Reading Eagle….
Moreas having far-reaching ramifications on other aspects of public schools in Pennsylvania. The high court ruled on Tuesday that the School Reform Commission in Philadelphia overstepped its authority by imposing…
MorePennsylvania’s school funding system, William Penn School District et al. v. Pennsylvania Department of Education et al. Attorneys expect the trial in Harrisburg to last through much of the fall….
Morealone can’t cure what ails the state’s lowest-performing schools, it is also true that Pennsylvania public schools have endured more than five years of inadequate, unpredictable state funding. We have…
More…ultimately, leave our schools lacking basic resources and leave our communities struggling to make up the difference with local revenues,” said Brownstein. “Our public schools require, and deserve, a thorough…
MoreAn editorial in the Delaware County Daily Times says that it is time to fix the problems of inadequacy and inequity in school funding that led the William Penn School…
Moreneeds and have attended school in Easton Area School District all their lives. The two students are currently back in school pending a judge’s ruling on the case. NC_Easton_Complaint NC_Easton_PreliminaryInjunction…
More…is one of 14 states that regressively funds its public school system. Although school districts with high numbers of students in poverty and/or students of color generally impose significantly higher…
Moreyouth under 18 who have a certificate of graduation from a regularly accredited, licensed, registered, or approved high school. Under the law, all students must attend school until their 18th…
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…Schoolwide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports? AEDY programs that serve students with disabilities must address behaviors in a way that keeps students in school and does not rely on out-of-school…
More[Go back to Inclusive Schools and Honest Education main page] What We Believe We believe that welcoming and inclusive schools provide books and materials that allow students to see themselves,…
More…school changes. Children lose four to six months of academic progress with each school change. Too often, credits earned at one school do not transfer or are not recognized towards…
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