Education 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…
MoreThe Notebook reports on ELC’s fair funding case and its progress toward trial, quoting ELC Legal Director Maura McInerney. Read more here….
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…
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 Inquirer reports on ELC’s fair funding lawsuit and its continued progress toward trial. Read more here….
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…
More…students who are college or career ready, without remediation. However, they also are required to intervene only in the lowest-performing 5 percent of schools, high schools where a third or…
MoreOctober 28, 2016 Truancy is an urgent issue across the Commonwealth because the cost to our children and communities is so high: absence from school results in lower academic achievement,…
More…for Disruptive Youth programs. The complaint cites four years worth of data showing a disproportionately high number of students with disabilities and African American students are removed from traditional public…
More…schools. “ELC has been leading school funding reform efforts for years. This latest campaign reflects our long-standing commitment to providing all of Pennsylvania’s children — regardless of where they live…
Morefailure of charter schools to provide quality education in a transparent way that allows the authorizing school districts to hold them accountable,” she explained. Read the full article at PNS….
Morenon-security personnel from being armed in schools. The bill, however, does allow school security guards, including personnel from private security firms, to carry weapons in schools. Read the joint statement….
More…poor school districts have argued that a zip code all-too-often determines the quality of a student’s education. Apparently the color of a student’s skin matters even more. New research has…
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…
MorePublic school students in Pennsylvania will soon have their day in court. A Commonwealth Court order released April 1 tentatively scheduled a trial start date of September 9, 2021, in…
More…most underfunded school districts in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania has some of the nation’s widest gaps between wealthy and poor school districts. The focus is legislation introduced on April 14, 2020, by…
Morechildren with disabilities who once loved school cried, shook, and begged not to go to school following months of pervasive bullying. Some of these parents asked the District to transfer…
More…shines a light on the school success of children in foster care and those experiencing homelessness by requiring the collection of data on high school graduation rates for these student…
More…school. A preliminary injunction was granted by the district court this August directing the School District of Lancaster to permit all named plaintiffs to attend the regular high school. That…
Moreservices to school-age youths. PPS contracts with Allegheny Intermediate Unit (AIU), which manages the school program at the jail. “ELC filed this complaint to remedy systemic policies and practices that…
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