2023 Back to School Guide for PA Students and Families
…website for specific information about how it plans to educate and provide supports for students. Check your school’s policies to see if your children may have protections that go beyond…
More…website for specific information about how it plans to educate and provide supports for students. Check your school’s policies to see if your children may have protections that go beyond…
More…auditorium that can seat all students, and classrooms are too small to comfortably fit class sizes that reach as many as 32 students. The school does not have working bathrooms…
More…operators would resist fixing this system. Last year, a bi-partisan Special Education Funding Commission studied this issue for months, taking testimony from dozens of experts. Ultimately, the Commission recognized that…
More…and there is hereby established in the Governor’s Office a non-partisan, departmental administrative commission for the administration of this act”); PHRA § 6(c), 43 P.S. § 956(c) (“the Commission shall…
MoreThe Special Education Funding Commission of the Pennsylvania legislature reconvened August 27, 2019, for the first time in nearly six years to examine the impact of the 2014 funding formula…
More…http://www.isu.edu/irh/projects/better_todays/ http://www.paceschool.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Microsoft-PowerPoint-TIC-Conference_2011.pdf http://www.paceschool.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Microsoft-PowerPoint-TIC-Conference_2011.pdf http://andruschildren.org/?page_id=834 http://www.goldenrams.com/Page/15 http://www.nami.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Inform_Yourself/About_Public_Policy/New_Freedom_Commission/Default1169.htm http://www.nami.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Inform_Yourself/About_Public_Policy/New_Freedom_Commission/Default1169.htm http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/technical_reports/2006/RAND_TR413.pdf http://www.samhsa.gov/children/SAMHSA_Short_Report_2011.pdf 24 66 NCTSN (2012). Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: General Information. Retrieved from http://www.nctsnet.org/sites/default/files/assets/pdfs/tfcbt_general.pdf. 67 SAMHSA (2013). Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)….
MoreOn January 16, 2018, ELC submitted comments to the US Commission on Civil Rights to highlight the fundamental importance of federal guidance and regulations in protecting the education rights of…
More…to appear in front of the Basic Education Funding Commission on behalf of the parents, students, and stakeholders we serve. The Education Law Center of Pennsylvania (ELC) has a long…
Morewhile providing no significant improvement to school climate or safety. Today’s report from the Federal Commission on School Safety, led by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, sends the opposite message on…
More…essay aloud in court, while “many” other unspecified ELLs have gone on to college after graduating Phoenix. Id. (citing J.A. 627). Though he could read an essay aloud in court,…
More…and Youth, PCCY Audit, https://www.pccy.org/userfiles/file/Education/CharterRenewals/CharterRenewal DocsCombined.pdf (last visited Aug. 20, 2013) …………………………………………..14 Safe Schools, Statewide Report: 2011 – 2012 (2012) available at https://www.safeschoolsreports.state.pa.us/historic/historic/2012/state.pdf ……..26 Steve Esack & Devon Lash, Closing…
More…Amendments HB 530 SB 856 Section Amendment Comments ELC Position § 17-1704- A Creates a “Charter School Funding Advisory Commission” The make- up of the Commission is more evenly…
More…or unaccompanied youth i issue of McKinney-Vento Act noncompliance, they may file a complaint or appeal with a McKinney-Vento site or regional coordinator or with the state coordinator. In lieu…
More…Legal Defense Fund, 2017, http://www.naacpldf.org/files/about-us/Bias_Reportv2017_30_11_FINAL.pdf. 8 See A state-by-state look at students referred to law enforcement, Center for Public Integrity, Apr. 10, 2015, https://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/04/10/17074/state-state-look-students-referred-law-enforcement. 9 See, e.g., Complaint: District fails…
More…Newsletter December 2023 – Basic Education Funding Commission; Pennridge Complaint; Testifying on Homelessness; and More ELC Newsletter November 2023 – Funding Commission, Battling Book Bans, School Vouchers, and More ELC…
More…e.g. Maura McInerney & Alex Dutton, ELC Steps Up to Protect the Rights of Bullied Students with Disabilities, The Legal Intelligencer (Dec. 26, 2017, 2:45 PM), https://www.law.com/thelegalintelligencer/sites/thelegalintelligencer/2017/12/26/elc-steps-up-to- protect-the-rights-of-bullied-students-with-disabilities/?slreturn=20180014222304. https://www.law.com/thelegalintelligencer/sites/thelegalintelligencer/2017/12/26/elc-steps-up-to-protect-the-rights-of-bullied-students-with-disabilities/?slreturn=20180014222304 https://www.law.com/thelegalintelligencer/sites/thelegalintelligencer/2017/12/26/elc-steps-up-to-protect-the-rights-of-bullied-students-with-disabilities/?slreturn=20180014222304…
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…
MoreJune 18, 2015 – Kathy Boccella, The Philadelphia Inquirer – A state commission Thursday called for a sweeping overhaul of Pennsylvania’s funding formula for education aid that would take into…
MoreEducation Law Center Staff Attorney David Lapp’s testimony to the Pennsylvania Basic Education Funding Commission on November 18, 2014, entitled “Time for a Rational Fix to the Special Education Tuition…
MoreThe Special Education Funding Commission held public hearings throughout the state in 2013, receiving testimony from dozens of witnesses. Students, parents, educators, and national experts uniformly emphasized the long-term impact…
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