Area School District. They asked school officials to train the classroom teachers and other staff to monitor the child’s blood-sugar levels and to provide her with snacks and/or medicine during…
MoreCreation and Oversight of Charters: Charter schools should be authorized and monitored by local school districts and elected school boards which have the primary role in partnering with charter schools…
Morecontends. Members of the coalition include the school districts of Lancaster, William Penn, Panther Valley, Greater Johnstown Area and Shenandoah Valley, the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools and…
More…xenophobic, and misogynistic rhetoric and incidents in schools. We assure our partners across the state that we will continue holding school districts to their legal obligations to maintain a school…
MoreVictory for vulnerable families in school disenrollment case Many poor families struggle to establish residency in order to attend school. They may be living with different family members and do…
Moreaddition to Christ’s high school classroom in Delaware County’s William Penn School District, where she’s taught students who are learning English for 11 years. But new textbooks are just the…
MoreCommission’s Formula Proposal Makes Strides Towards Addressing Equity Gaps Restoring 2011 School Funding Cuts Must be the First Step For Immediate Release Contact: Deborah Gordon Klehr, [email protected] or 215-346-6920 June…
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…
MoreEducation Law Center executive director Deborah Gordon Klehr wrote about the unconstitutionality of Pennsylvania’s current school funding system, and the funding lawsuit in Commonwealth Court where trial is scheduled to…
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…
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…
MoreA basic guide to enrolling a child in a Pennsylvania public school, presented by the Education Law Center.
MoreView Section 504 Factsheet to learn about what a parent can do if their child has a health problem that requires accommodations in school….
More…are among the incidents that have fueled concerns at Bache-Martin Elementary in Fairmount this year, and left parents asking: What has happened to our school? Read the full story …
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…
MoreFeb. 10, 2016 – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – By Mary Niederberger Gov. Tom Wolf’s proposal for significant budget increases to public education drew a uniform response from school officials, teacher union…
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…
MoreThere is a new start date for the trial in our historic lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania’s school funding system. The date is moved back a month to Oct.12. The later date…
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