WHYY quotes ELC Executive Director Deborah Gordon Klehr on Governor Wolf’s proposed budget. “Our children need more,” Klehr writes. Read more here….
More…Gordon Klehr writes about the bias in school discipline against students of color and argues that school suspensions in under-resourced schools often do more harm than good. Read more here….
MoreNewsweek article cites ELC report highlighting how state underfunding of schools deepens inequity. Read more here….
More…right to “specially designed instruction” – meaning that teachers must adapt the content (what is taught), methodology (how it is taught), or delivery of the curriculum to account for your…
More…grades 1 and 2. This means that students in those grades cannot be suspended unless it is shown that their behavior resulted in serious bodily injury. Read our release here….
More…adequately and equitably funded statewide public education system. The heavy lifting is still needed as urgently as ever to address shortfalls in school funding across the state. Read more here….
More…without disruption of the critical special education services to which they are legally entitled. However, the District has failed to meet these requirements and ELC has asked PDE’s Bureau of…
More…Floor (East Liberty) Cost: $22.00 Purchase tickets here Read the full story of Cheryl Kleiman’s achievement: Who’s Next in Education Education Law Center is excited to announce that Cheryl Kleiman…
More…filed a complaint last year with the U.S. Department of Education seeking an investigation into alleged discriminatory placement of students statewide in alternative education for disruptive youth programs. Read more….
More…based on the continued lack of accountability for these schools, which have shown poor academic results, excessive amounts of student turnover, and periodic criminal fiscal negligence. Read the letter. …
More…Applicants should be law students graduating in the Spring of 2016 or current law clerks and should have a demonstrated commitment to public interest law. Read the full posting here….
More…Read our new Report on this event which shares key insights gleaned during the Roundtable and outlines next steps and strategies to promote new research, data-sharing and the development of…
More…hearings themselves, but more about a supportive network where families feel like they are getting what they deserve out of the whole educational process,” he said. Read the article here….
MoreOn Feb. 2, 2015, the Education Law Center submitted comments on the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the Every Child Ready for College or Career Act…
More…(PSSA) Reading and Writing test scores for the same year, a team of researchers studied five components of school library infrastructure: Staffing Collections Digital Resources and Technology…
More…first place,” she said. “To restore the funding cuts, ensure adequate resources, so York City School District is able to retain local control and continue.” Read the full story here….
More…pushing [rule-breakers] away; you’re going to find a way to engage them.” That doesn’t mean adopting a permissive attitude toward disruptive actions. Greenblatt summed it up this way: “In a…
More…boy for an out-of-whack education funding system courtesy of brutal cuts enacted in his first years in office, agrees. That’s why earlier this year he asked the Legislature to set…
More…student with ADHD, a learning disability, as well as a mood disorder. Ms. Galarza reads and speaks Spanish only. However, when District personnel discussed her child’s special education evaluations and…
More…the Education Law Center-PA are representing the petitioners. The plaintiffs include the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools, which represents 150 school districts, and the NAACP Pennsylvania State Conference….
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