The Pennsylvania Human Relations Act (PHRA) is the commonwealth’s key antidiscrimination law. The Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission (PHRC) enforces this state law, which prohibits discrimination in schools on the basis…
MoreThe Education Law Center sent an open letter to Philadelphia’s School Reform Commission expressing renewed concern about issues of equity and universal access at Philadelphia charter schools. Data from the…
More…the bipartisan Basic Education Funding Commission. The formula’s stated intent is to equitably distribute state resources to school districts across the Commonwealth. The funding disparities that exist between different school…
MoreThe proposal from the bipartisan commission charged with developing a remedy for the state’s unconstitutional school funding system sets targets for adequate funding in every school district, based on student…
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More…2017 National School Climate Survey (2018), https://www.glsen.org/ sites/default/files/GLSEN-2017-National-School-Climate-Survey-NSCS- Full-Report.pdf ……………………………………………………………………………. 10, 13 GLSEN, School Climate in Pennsylvania (2019), https://www.glsen.org/sites/ default/files/Pennsylvania%20State%20Snapshot%20-%202017%20 NSCS_0.pdf ……………………………………………………………………………………. 5, 9 Angela Irvine & Aisha Canfield, Reflections…
More…not punish the student for the creation of the website, as the website created much less disruption in school than the one in J.S. Additionally, although Layshock accessed the website…
MoreDespite prohibiting the suspension of Kindergarten students, the School District of Philadelphia continues to suspend students in first through fifth grades at alarming rates. According to Pennsylvania’s most…
MoreJanuary 16, 2018 Catherine E. Lhamon, Chair Patricia Timmons-Goodson, Vice Chair Debo P. Adegbile, Commissioner Karen K. Narasaki, Commissioner Gail Heriot, Commissioner David Kladney, Commissioner Peter N. Kirsanow, Commissioner Michael…
More…School Partnership, a well-funded nonprofit, said the commission “came out with a comprehensive, well-reasoned, and balanced set of recommendations. . . . [The] commission has created the opportunity for a…
MoreJune 14, 2013 – Governor Corbett signed into law today historic legislation to fix Pennsylvania’s broken special education funding and accountability system. Act 3 establishes a legislative commission to develop…
MoreJune 18, 2015 – by Emma Brown, The Washington Post – A Pennsylvania state commission has proposed a funding formula that would send more tax dollars to school districts that…
More…the governor said. Wolf’s plan also calls for a forensic audit of the district’s finances and the appointment of a new turnaround specialist. The petition to amend Chester Upland’s recovery…
More…the Philadelphia-based Education Law Center, who has represented students facing expulsion, agrees. “There’s a willingness now to … look at mitigating circumstances and not just blindly say, `This happened; this…
More…the Principal that STUDENT had visited the hospital, and pleaded with her to intervene in the bullying. However, upon examining the medical paperwork, PRINCIPAL stated that the tests looked normal…
More…defining an adequate education, (ii) implemented statewide assessments to measure and hold students and school districts accountable for meeting those standards, and (iii) commissioned a costing-out study to determine the…
More…Director, Campaign for Educational Equity at Teachers College, has played a leading role in supporting research in the field through the sponsorship of conferences, websites, and other forms of interaction…
More…guide, you can also visit your school district’s website for specific information about how it plans to educate and provide supports for students. Check your school’s policies to see if…
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