ELC Elanco Open Letter
February 12, 2019 School Board of Directors Eastern Lancaster County School District 669 East Main Street New Holland, PA 17557 Re: Rights of Transgender Students Dear Board Members: We write,…
MoreFebruary 12, 2019 School Board of Directors Eastern Lancaster County School District 669 East Main Street New Holland, PA 17557 Re: Rights of Transgender Students Dear Board Members: We write,…
Moreneeds and have attended school in Easton Area School District all their lives. The two students are currently back in school pending a judge’s ruling on the case. NC_Easton_Complaint NC_Easton_PreliminaryInjunction…
Moreserving a comparable population to district schools, which raises doubts about any claims that traditional charter schools outperform district schools. The concentration of more advantaged students in traditional charter schools…
More…school safety. Attorneys from Education Law Center-PA and the Public Interest Law Center, representing school districts, parents, and organizations in a case challenging Pennsylvania’s system for funding public schools, released…
Moredeprivations of a free, appropriate public education stemming from COVID school closures. Both PDE and the U.S. Department of Education have made clear that when schools closed, school districts were…
MoreDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, many students across Pennsylvania were exposed to “virtual learning” or “virtual school programs” for the first time. These are programs operated by a school district or…
MoreAll students in Pennsylvania must attend school no later than age 6 until age 18 or graduation, whichever occurs sooner. In general, rules for attending school do not apply to…
Morein Pennsylvania are being targeted through proposed statewide legislation and multiple school districts considering or implementing policies that prevent students from participating in a school sports team, as well as…
MoreThe Education Law Center (ELC) filed amicus briefing in Nicole B. v. School District of Philadelphia, et al., a case involving a Philadelphia student who was relentlessly bullied because of…
More…looking at Westinghouse, looking at Carrick, looking at [University Prep] in 10 years and saying they’re still no better off.” Chad Aldeman, an associate partner at the education consulting and…
MoreA newly released Education Law Center report reveals that Pennsylvania school districts are having to shoulder most of the burden of funding growing expenses of special education. Over an eight-year…
MoreThe landmark Pennsylvania education funding lawsuit filed by ELC and its partners can proceed, a Commonwealth Court judge ruled, as reported by Dale Mezzacappa of the Philadelphia Public School Notebook….
More27, highlighting the centrality of resource issues for the school district. “The fact that Philadelphia schools simply don’t have enough resources is in part a Harrisburg problem, but it’s one…
MoreA basic guide to enrolling a child in a Pennsylvania public school, presented by the Education Law Center.
More…schools and sent to educationally inferior AEDY or similar alternative education programs, often in violation of federal laws. “As a result of the Pennsylvania Department of Education’s policies and practices,…
MoreOn July 26, 2017, ELC filed a Complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on behalf of students with disabilities in the School District of…
More…Pennsylvania public schools. Titled “Money Matters in Education Justice: Addressing Race and Class Inequities in Pennsylvania’s Public School System” and released on March 3, the report found those inequalities are…
More…Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania filed Monday, upholding a lower court’s ruling regarding the Pittsburgh Public Schools’ yearlong suspension of a 10th-grader for using a pencil to stab a classmate multiple…
MoreView Section 504 Factsheet to learn about what a parent can do if their child has a health problem that requires accommodations in school….
MorePennsylvania has an on-time budget for 2018-19, approved by the legislature and signed by Gov. Wolf on June 22. It provides modest but needed new funding for Pennsylvania’s schoolchildren. While…
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