Head Start (HS) and Early Head Start (EHS) programs work: they promote the school readiness of young children from low-income families and support the mental, social, and emotional development of…
More…students by giving them more out-of-school suspensions and placing them in lower-level courses. In the complaint to the U.S. Department of Education and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, the parents…
More…High School come from faculty members who have been warning administrators about an out-of-control climate of violence and disrespect that left them feeling unsafe, if not terrified, long before a…
MoreThe Campaign for Fair Education Funding has issued the following statement on the announcement by the Basic Education Funding Commission that it needs more time to complete its recommendations: It…
More…preparing to file a lawsuit arguing that the state has violated its constitutional requirement to provide a “thorough and efficient system of public education.” Read the full story: http://articles.philly.com/2014-01-08/news/45995137_1_education-funding-debate-state-lawmakers-school-funding …
More…step in the right direction, it in no way solves underlying problems. Students aren’t being given a fair opportunity to succeed, they rightly point out. Read the full story: http://cumberlink.com/news/opinion/editorial/our-view-fix-state-s-broken-education-system/article_899ffe28-0c41-11e3-b666-0019bb2963f4.html…
More…American students comprise only 15 percent of Pennsylvania public school students, in 2010-11 they comprised 35 percent of the students placed into alternative education programs. Forty-five school districts — including…
More…District testified at an NAACP public hearing Tuesday that the district had shown a pattern of discrimination against certain types of students over the years. Read the full story: http://articles.philly.com/2013-10-17/news/43110099_1_state-naacp-minority-students-safiya-edwards…
More…was slashed. “Cuts at the state level just kill us,” said Jim Duffy, superintendent of the Fannett-Metal School District, a small system in south-central Pennsylvania. Read the full story: http://articles.philly.com/2013-10-01/news/42539843_1_districts-school-funding-chief-education-officer…
More…comes after a state Senate committee recently voted to advance the legislation, which supporters say will provide greater accountability and stronger standards for charter schools. Read the full story: https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2013/11/04/pa-charter-reform-bill-advances-draws-criticism/…
More…15 cyber charters already operating in the state, the Philadelphia-based nonprofit called for a one-year moratorium on new ones. Cyber charters enroll 35,000 students statewide. Read the full story: http://articles.philly.com/2013-11-23/news/44368264_1_regular-charter-schools-cyber-dorothy-june-brown…
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More…commonwealth, saying it had failed to provide all students with an appropriate education. Plaintiffs in the long-expected suit, filed in Commonwealth Court, include two Philadelphia School District parents and the…
More…In addition to the legal obligations described above, we urge the committee to consider both the positive impact of affirming transgender students as well as the negative outcomes associated with…
More…districts, parents, and organizations that have sued the commonwealth told a panel of judges here Wednesday. The suit – brought by school systems, including the William Penn district in Delaware…
MoreMarch 11, 2015 – by Katie Kyros, Fox43 – On Wednesday, attorneys for Pennsylvania school districts made arguments in Commonwealth Court that education funding in the state is so low,…
More…Center said after the preliminary hearing that whether or not Commonwealth Court decides to hold a trial, he expects the issue to move up to the state Supreme Court. http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/school-funding-lawsuit-is-like-groundhog-day-movie-state-officials/article_b90f926c-c72b-11e4-88fe-9b4005695463.html…
More…don’t mean anything,” said David Seropian, business manager for the McKeesport Area School District. “If the numbers come to fruition then we would be pleased.” Sto-Rox Superintendent Terry DeCarbo said…
More…the district currently uses exclusion from school at “alarming rates” for its littlest learners. A coalition of advocates wrote to Superintendent William R. Hite Jr. and the School Reform Commission…
More…insufficient to support the Board’s decision to disenroll the students. While the opinion was originally unreported, the Commonwealth Court subsequently granted ELC’s motion to publish the decision. Spring 2017 http://caselaw.findlaw.com/pa-commonwealth-court/1776970.html…
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