Education Law Center Recent Successes
…ensuring equal access, and stopping the school-to-prison pipeline. We have made important progress in those areas in recent months. Read more about our work and highlights of the past year….
More…ensuring equal access, and stopping the school-to-prison pipeline. We have made important progress in those areas in recent months. Read more about our work and highlights of the past year….
More…legal director Maura McInerney questions new language in the Pennsylvania School Code that allows school districts to serve “alternative lunches” to students whose families have lunch debt. Read her letter….
More…just 22%. The letter urges a “fuller and fairer allocation of funding for special education.” The commission will be meeting and holding hearings over a three-month period. Read the letter….
More…non-security personnel from being armed in schools. The bill, however, does allow school security guards, including personnel from private security firms, to carry weapons in schools. Read the joint statement….
More…but state education funding still falls far below what is needed. ELC executive director Deborah Gordon Klehr issued a statement on the budget on June 25, 2019. Read the statement….
More…illegal and dangerous policy. Read about the brief here. The presence of guns in schools and arming of untrained school staff pose significant safety risks to schoolchildren and communities and…
More…Center attorney Michael Churchill said. “The school districts who have joined our lawsuit know this is true, and students in underfunded schools know this is true. The legislature has the…
More…and sufficient funding for public schools. At the forefront of that debate is what many consider debilitating cuts to education made by Gov. Tom Corbett. Read the full story: http://axisphilly.org/article/the-haves-and-have-nots-of-education-spending/…
More…al. v. School District of Philadelphia, which challenged the quality of instruction and services provided to non-English-speaking students and the failure to provide interpretation and translation services that hampered parent…
More…present only on Thursdays and every other Friday), school staff called 911. We know they did everything they could with the resources they had to respond. Read the complete op-ed….
MoreOn November 1, in a letter to the Philadelphia School Reform Commission, ELC is requesting revision to the School District of Philadelphia’s proposed new Language Instruction Policy. ELC asks that…
More…Evaluations indicate that vulnerable student populations are underserved by the charter sector. The letter endorses the School District’s efforts to build a more robust Charter School Office. Read more here….
More…Feb. 6 budget address. But the state still has far to go, she said in a press statement, to achieve an adequate and equitable funding system. Read the statement here….
More…services to children with disabilities, or services to English Language Learners. Read the letter here and please call your PA Senator to help protect public education in Pennsylvania by urging…
More…nominating panel and the mayor to urge them to prioritize five commitments that we see as key to the success of this new board. Click here to read the letter….
More…profound disciplinary disparities among students of color with disabilities.” The comments were prepared by ELC attorneys Reynelle Brown Staley, Deborah Klehr, Maura McInerney, and Kristina Moon. Read the comments here….
More…12.] Attorneys expect the trial to last several weeks. The trial dates will be set at a pretrial conference on June 21, the order said. Read the press release here….
More…inaction. The Education Law Center applauded the Department’s findings and intervention but also requested further corrective action. Here are links to read the Complaint and the Department’s Complaint Investigation Report….
More…or trauma. The hearing comes one day after thousands of students joined the National Student Walkout, calling for action against gun violence. Read our testimony here. …
More…and SisTers PGH released a joint statement on October 5, 2017, in response to planned protests in Allegheny County by the anti-LGBTQ Westboro Baptist Church. Read the statement here. …
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