The 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….
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…
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…
More1 IN THE COMMONWEALTH COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA WILLIAM PENN SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Petitioners v. PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION et al., Respondents : : : : : : : No….
More…in Delaware County. This site, the oldest reform school in the country, housed as many as 1,000 boys from all over the country – and the world – at one…
MoreDisability data comes from http://penndata.hbg.psu.edu/documents/PennDataBooks/Statistical_Summary_2013- 2014.pdf. The numbers for the charter schools were calculated by taking the totals for Philadelphia IU 26 (which includes all district and charter schools in…
More…demographic characteristics are used to exclude students from schools should include school promotional materials, in addition to decisions about individual students and their individual backgrounds. A school mission statement or…
More…be able to use this form t o establish that the child living with you is eligible to enroll in the school catchment where you reside. Your school district’s form…
More…successful in school and beyond. This Education Law Center report details the race and class inequities in Pennsylvania’s school funding system, building on ELC’s 2013 report “Funding, Formulas, and Fairness.”…
More…public school funding in Harrisburg. With bills moving through the Legislature to address basic education funding and school construction, minds are changing all the way up to the governor’s mansion….
MoreAct 26 is a Pennsylvania law that requires the expulsion for at least one year of any student who possesses a weapon on school property, at a school function, or…
Moredepression and anxiety as well as decreased participation and achievement in school. Students have the right to be free from sex- or gender-based discrimination, harassment, and violence at school. Learn…
MoreYour child’s right to school transportation depends on the local policies adopted by your school district, the distance from your residence to the school, and whether your child has disabilities…
MoreMarch 9, 2014 – David Lapp, Special to the Sunday News – Significant problems exist with Pennsylvania’s current charter school policy, and we agree with state Sen. Lloyd Smucker that…
Moretruancy reduction that address the unique barriers that each student faces to school attendance. Importantly, the new legislation embraces this core principle and requires schools to lead with this approach…
More…created by the 2011 reductions in public school funding, which crippled our schools and exacerbated funding disparities across school districts. “First restore the cuts, then apply the funding formula as…
MoreIn 2008, Good Schools Pennsylvania and the Education Law Center visited schools throughout the Commonwealth and invited students to share their hopes and goals, and comment on how adequately funded…
Moreboard president, Anthony Johnson. “And the board’s mindset is, we’ve got to stand up and do for self, too.” The district is pinning its hopes on an unusual strategy: bringing…
MoreMay 15, 2016 – The Citizens’ Voice – by Michael P. Buffer A Wyoming Area School District teacher compared making accommodations for a special-needs student to appeasing Adolf Hitler and…
More…Phila. 19144 (215) 844-7758 Johnson Childcare Center Preschool 1935 Medary Ave, Phila. 19141 (215) 927-6677 Jubilee School 4211 Chester Ave, Phila. 19104 (215) 387-7592 Kinder Academy – Oxford 900 E…
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