…community services. Truancy must be recognized as a “school engagement” issue. To solve it, schools must incentivize students to re-engage in school rather than push them further away. Truancy is…
More…to support transgender students. Here in Pennsylvania, we recognize Allegheny County Department of Human Services for its work and partnership in fostering collaborative, cross-system conversations about how we can best…
More…access to a quality public education. Kristina Moon joined the Philadelphia office on Monday, May 9. Kristina comes to us from Prisoners’ Legal Services in New York, where as a…
More…$400 million increase in basic education funding as well as an increase in special education and early education funding as a down payment to restore critical services to students.” …
More…who are eligible to receive, special education and early intervention services are disproportionately pushed out of early learning programs. The Resolution calls for OCDEL to address race and disability as…
More…collaboration with our Philadelphia office, to provide high quality legal services on issues of public education to parents, students, and community advocates across Pennsylvania. Qualifications: The Program Administrative Coordinator must:…
More…provide high quality legal services on issues of public education to parents, students, and community advocates across Pennsylvania. This position is to be filled as soon as possible. Click here…
More…and Human Services to ensure school stability and improve educational outcomes for the 270,000 children of school age in foster care. This new guidance directs states, including Pennsylvania, on how…
More…high school, denying them the classes and services offered at the traditional high school. Some of the students had been in refugee camps for years, said Witold “Vic” Walczak, legal…
More…OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, OFFICES OF CIVIL RIGHTS, at 2 (Dec. 20, 2014), https://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/school-discipline/policy-statement-ece-expulsions- suspensions.pdf. 10 American Psychological Association, Zero Tolerance Task Force Report, supra note 6 at 854…
More…form. To learn more about specific education rights identified for each topic area, please see the fact sheet section of our website. Like all of ELC’s publications, the information and…
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