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…of parents, students, and community members across Pennsylvania to ask for your support to address the critical educational needs of students with disabilities. We strongly urge you to support at…
More…of parents, students, and community members across Pennsylvania to ask for your support to address the critical educational needs of students with disabilities. We strongly urge you to support at…
MoreOn Sept. 20, 2015, public school parents, school districts, and two statewide associations continued their legal challenge of Pennsylvania’s broken school funding system, telling the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that the…
More…also provides significant protections to children in foster care and children who are homeless with the aim of improving educational outcomes. The bill strengthens school stability for children who are…
More…Act (ESSA), represents an improvement over existing legislation. It will provide targeted support to struggling schools, including schools where traditionally overlooked student groups consistently underperform. The new ESSA does more…
More…and Its Impact on Learning: What Schools, Parents & Policymakers Need to Know and Do,” written by Maura McInerney, Esq. and Alissa S. Werzen, M.D., was published February 11, 2016….
More…it lets staff and the school community – parents and families – know with a high degree of certainty what to expect,” said Dawnlynne Kacer, the executive director of the…
More…education dollars of any state in the country.” The suit was brought in November 2014 by seven parents, including several from Philadelphia; six school districts; the state NAACP; and the…
More…and parents, all of whom have seen the impact of continued disinvestment in our schools, are suing the commonwealth and asking the courts to ensure that state government finally lives…
More…a directive, the General Assembly has – and will – continue to abdicate its constitutional obligations. “The parents, school districts and statewide organizations, represented by ELC and our partners, are…
More…an attempt to reinstate seniority. “That’s not what teachers, parents or kids would want. But we certainly haven’t had the sit-down conversation with them in order to talk about implementation,”…
More…speak to families, parents, and students in Philadelphia who have been harmed by the shortage of school nurses. To file a complaint about the lack of school nursing services go…
More…advocacy groups to file a federal civil rights complaint on behalf of parents and students in the Pennridge School District, challenging the District’s discriminatory policies and its “hostile environment rife…
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