who had her enrollment to a charter school, Franklin Towne Charter High School, rescinded after the school found out she had an IEP and required emotional support services. Read more….
Moreenrollment and access to language assistance for families; 2) quality ESL instruction; and 3) equal access and opportunities (for example, to special education services or to selective high schools). Read…
Moreof Human Services) Courtney Marello (GSK) Edwin Mayorga (Swarthmore College) Danielle Moseley (Vanguard Group, Inc.) Al Motley (Techademics) Dorothy Novick (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia) Kathryn Potalivo, Board President (Moderna) Lisa…
Moreservices to school-age youths. PPS contracts with Allegheny Intermediate Unit (AIU), which manages the school program at the jail. “ELC filed this complaint to remedy systemic policies and practices that…
MoreSpecial education evaluations and reevaluations are conducted to determine what services and supports a student needs in their IEP. Sometimes, a school’s evaluation or revaluation is incomplete, lacks important information…
Mores ) , and surrogate parents who have disabilities to request needed reasonable accommodations, modifications, or services to ensure that they can participate in making educational decisions for their child….
More…your support, ELC will be better equipped to meet the demand for our direct services, address systemic barriers that prevent all students from thriving, and promote the adoption of policies…
Moredisabilities receive the accommodations, supports, and services they need to access school. Please be as specific as possible when completing this tool and list any education concerns you may be…
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More…2014. The new policy will go into effect when school resumes later in the month. The Law Center worked with parents, students, and community advocates to recommend the new policies…
MoreA settlement that requires school district to provide one-to-one support for children with mental health needs rather than simply referring them to MH system for services; resulted in PDE issuing…
More…for basic, special, and early education in next year’s budget is welcome given the Commonwealth’s difficult budget situation. His proposal to increase early education funding by $75 million and to…
More…make a big difference for all Pennsylvania’s children – especially our most at-risk students, who too often lack basic supports and services in their public schools. How we address that…
More…high school, denying them the classes and services offered at the traditional high school. Some of the students had been in refugee camps for years, said Witold “Vic” Walczak, legal…
MorePublic News Source quotes ELC Legal Fellow Sean McGrath on the availability of early intervention services in the state of Pennsylvania. Read more here….
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MoreSEEDS to kindergarten or first grade in the School District of Philadelphia. To date, the complaint has resulted in compensatory education services for 170 children, a number that is to…
More…District of Columbia. The Act also develops “institutions of excellence” committed to serving foster and homeless youth from entrance to completion via robust support services and by covering the remaining…
Moreher recently-acquired pro bono counsel the opportunity to submit a brief on the complex legal issues for common pleas’ review. Similarly, she contends that, notwithstanding the lack of brief, common…
More…article by Education Law Center’s Deborah Gordon Klehr, Juvenile Law Center’s Sue Vivian Mangold, Defender Association of Philadelphia’s Keir Bradford-Grey, and Community Legal Services’ Debby Freedman on fighting racial injustice….
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