Pennsylvania’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….
More…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…
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…
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…
MoreStat. Ann. § 7-740 (West) prevents schools from allowing transgender students to use the facilities with which they identify; (2) the presence of a transgender person in a sex-segregated space…
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…
MoreEducation Law Center executive director Deborah Gordon Klehr wrote, “All Pennsylvanians need to know that our state is failing by inadequately and inequitably funding our schools. Pennsylvania once made a…
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…
Morethe mediation, it is written down and signed by both the school and parent. If the school doesn’t follow through on its end of the agreement, additional action can be…
MoreThe Notebook reports on ELC’s fair funding case and its progress toward trial, quoting ELC Legal Director Maura McInerney. Read more here….
MoreThe Inquirer reports on ELC’s fair funding lawsuit and its continued progress toward trial. Read more here….
More…for fair school funding and close the opportunity gap between students in wealthy and poor school districts. FIGHTING FOR FAIR SCHOOL FUNDING Ensuring equal access for all students is central…
MoreLiberties Union of Pennsylvania looked specifically at disciplinary practices that remove students from school across Pennsylvania. Called “Beyond Zero Tolerance: Discipline and Policing in Pennsylvania’s Public Schools,” the report pointed…
MoreApril 27, 2017 – Philadelphia Inquirer– by Kristen Graham The Philadelphia School District should permanently prohibit out-of-school suspensions of children through fifth grade, a group of child advocates says, contending…
MoreThe ACLU of Pennsylvania, the Education Law Center, and pro bono counsel Pepper Hamilton LLP filed a federal lawsuit on July 19, 2016, alleging that the School District of Lancaster…
Moreof schools to provide language assistance.” Ms. Galarza is more adamant. Reflecting back on the school psychologist’s insistence that her daughter’s new diagnosis was “better,” she said, “Nobody would want…
More…at Glen Mills Schools, a residential facility located in Delaware County. This site, the oldest reform school in the country, housed as many as 1,000 boys from all over the…
MoreThe return of the School District of Philadelphia to local control and the formation of a nine-member school board over the next few months present a unique opportunity to put…
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