…on,” said O’Donnell. Charter school enthusiasts celebrated the ruling. “We think it is a correct and long-overdue decision,” said Robert Fayfich, executive director of the Philadelphia Coalition for Public Charter…
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More…attached thereto, the allegations are accepted as true and considered in the light most favorable to the plaintiff. Id. at 176. Under Rule 12(b)(6), “the court evaluates the merits of…
MoreIn May 2023, Education Law Center PA submitted comments in response to the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed rule on sex discrimination in school athletics under Title IX of the…
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More…breaking school rules. One boy said he was beaten and choked for running away. Another student suffered a broken jaw over a joke about a counselor’s sister. The U.S. Department…
More…to be unemployed More likely to become a drug addict Estimated cost of a youth who drops out and turns to crime & drugs — $1.7 to $2.3…
Moreteens Campus Safety 7/12: P.A. Governor Signs Bill Arming School Security Personnel Times Leader 7/9: In shift from past, state boosts special ed funding more than basic ed Pennsylvania Capital-Star 7/5: In…
More…8 James Gruber et al., Sexual Harassment, Bullying, and School Outcomes for High School Girls and Boys, 22(1) Violence Against Women 1 (2015) …….. 7 Kids Count Data Ctr., Children…
More…that Petitioners request. 77. Petitioners’ claims are barred by the political question doctrine. 78. The State Board of Education lacked a valid delegation of rulemaking authority to promulgate Chapter 4…
MoreIn a ruling March 8 by Commonwealth Court, a judge held that two Pennsylvania parents who were among those who filed the landmark lawsuit in 2014 challenging Pennsylvania’s school funding…
More…feel that authority figures have failed to provide safety for them in the past and may therefore be distrustful of teachers. Teachers’ rules and consequences may be viewed as punishment…
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…
More…to the issues of “the nature of the constitutional rights at issue and the corresponding level of judicial scrutiny to be applied….” The May 7, 2018 Order further stated that…
More…the Supreme Court forced a state to fund religious education. The ruling is antithetical to our country’s history and its long-held commitment to a separation between church and state embedded…
Morecreate rules, they must follow their own rules. Thus, a school can only expel a student for a violation of a school rule if the school has officially adopted and…
More…and Revision of Taxes, 649 A.2d 740, 742 (Pa. Cmwlth. 1994), were not met. Moreover, the District argues that a remand is not necessary because a full and complete record…
MoreApril 21, 2015 – by Karen Langle, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Harrisburg Bureau – HARRISBURG — A panel of judges ruled Tuesday that the power to make decisions on school funding rests…
More…staying outside the district will be allowed to return to school pending a judge’s ruling on their lawsuit. According to the lawsuit filed by a nonprofit legal advocacy and educational…
More…Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools and the state NAACP. The lawsuit claims Pennsylvania has failed to meet its obligation to “provide for the maintenance and support of a…
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