In a case brought to enforce a hearing officer’s decision to include a 10-year-old boy who is deafblind in regular education, the court granted the parents’ motion for preliminary injunction…
MoreThe Education Law Center of Pennsylvania, Public Interest Law Center, and the law firm O’Melveny have joined together to file a lawsuit on behalf of school districts, parents, and two…
More…General Assembly. In November, six school districts, parents of schoolchildren, the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools and the state conference of the NAACP filed a lawsuit asking the…
More…Ramey said. “What we’re hearing from parents is a lot of stories about kids who are getting pushed out of schools over relatively minor infractions.” In addition to Yinzercation, Great…
More…students and explains how the District’s failure to respond to parent complaints, denying students the right to transfer, and referring students and parents to Truancy Court led to prolonged periods…
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…education” and equal treatment under the law. The suit was filed in November 2014 by a broad-based coalition of parents, school districts and non-profit organizations that have seen firsthand the…
More…decisions to students or their parents. The Philadelphia-based law firm of Pepper Hamilton LLP will also represent the plaintiffs in the case— six refugee students who hail from Burma, the…
More…equal education” they are due under federal and state laws. The students and their parents are represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, the Education Law Center and…
More…the resources they need to succeed. The plaintiffs that brought the case include seven parents, six school districts – William Penn, Panther Valley, Lancaster, Greater Johnstown, Wilkes-Barre Area and Shenandoah…
MoreOct. 21, 2016 – Philadelphia Public School Notebook – by Maura McInerney In 1985, the Education Law Center (ELC) learned about a 16-year-old Cambodian refugee in the School District of…
More…Change, the ACLU of Pennsylvania, One Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Councilwoman Helen Gym, the Caucus of Working Educations of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, Parents United for Public Education, and PhillySUN….
More…for Change, the ACLU of Pennsylvania, Councilwoman Helen Gym, and Parents United for Public Education, called on officials to act in a letter dated Monday. Read the full article at…
MoreJuly 6, 2017 — Philadelphia Public School Notebook — by Dale Mezzacappa and Avi Wolfman-Arent The School Reform Commission voted Thursday to establish a new in-house special education program for…
More…opportunities, end gross racial disparities in school funding, and dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline. America is better than this. We are better than this. We stand with parents, teachers, youth, community…
More…input from students, parents, educators, and advocates. This policy is in addition to the strengthened protections ELC advocated for in 2014, which resulted in stronger rules against harassment and bullying,…
More…of Education, et al. – was filed in 2014 on behalf of parents, school districts, and statewide organizations in response to the failure of Pennsylvania’s legislature to adequately and equitably…
More…District of Philadelphia violated the PHRA by ignoring the bullying and harassment. Berney & Sang receives countless calls each year from parents who are desperate to protect their children from…
More…YES. 4 STATEMENT OF THE CASE On November 10, 2014, a group of public school districts, students, parents and advocacy organizations (Petitioners) filed a petition for review in this Court’s…
More…education in Pennsylvania violates the state Constitution. The Petitioners are six school districts, the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools, several parents of school-age children, and the Pennsylvania State…
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