practices that actually improve school climate and school safety,” said ELC attorney Cheryl Kleiman. “What we’ve seen from national data and from our own work here in Pennsylvania is that…
More…in limiting out-of-school suspensions of young children and opposing ill-advised proposals to arm school personnel and will continue to push back against efforts to erode established civil rights protections of…
MoreParents and a community organization in Chester Upland School District have filed an emergency motion to suspend a process to outsource the entire district’s operations and schools to charter operators….
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…
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…
MoreHuman Relations Commission Use these resources for building antiracist and affirming schools: Promising Practices to Build Antiracist and Affirming Schools We Need Supportive Spaces That Celebrate Us: Black Girls Speak…
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…
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…
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….
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…
MoreThe Inquirer reports on ELC’s fair funding lawsuit and its continued progress toward trial. Read more here….
MoreThe Notebook reports on ELC’s fair funding case and its progress toward trial, quoting ELC Legal Director Maura McInerney. Read more here….
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…
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…
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