2019.05.22-Brief-of-Amici-Curiae-23-Organizations

…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…

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CostingOut_PASpecialEd_2_6_09

…school and beyond. SWPBS helps schools teach expected behaviors and social skills for all students, creates student behavioral health and academic support systems, and applies data-based decision-making to discipline, academics,…

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ELC_TrainingforSurrogateParents_9_24_13

…can be done differently? – How is the child’s behavior in school? If this is an issue, consider whether the child needs a “functional behavioral assessment” (FBA) and development of…

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letter-from-legal-strategies-collaborative-re-sros

…Brown, Judge: Police Can No Longer Pepper-Spray Students for Minor Misbehavior at School, WASH. POST, Oct. 1, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2015/10/01/judge-police-can-no-longer- pepper-spray-students-for-minor-misbehavior-at-school/. 30 Id. 5 school children are less deserving of protection…

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ELC Testimony Before City Council Re Residential Placements May 17, 2018

…philadelphia-9-2017.pdf. See also Youth at Risk of Homelessness: Identifying Key Predictive Factors Among Youth Aging Out of Foster Care in Washington State available at https://www.dshs.wa.gov/sites/default/files/SESA/rda/documents/research-7-106.pdf http://policylab.chop.edu/sites/default/files/pdf/publications/PolicyLab_Report_Supporting_Students_Involved_with_Child_Welfare_June_2014.pdf http://policylab.chop.edu/sites/default/files/pdf/publications/PolicyLab_Report_Supporting_Students_Involved_with_Child_Welfare_June_2014.pdf http://fostercareandeducation.org/DesktopModules/Bring2mind/DMX/Download.aspx?portalid=0&EntryId=2100&Command=Core_Download http://fostercareandeducation.org/DesktopModules/Bring2mind/DMX/Download.aspx?portalid=0&EntryId=2100&Command=Core_Download http://www.southerneducation.org/getattachment/cf39e156-5992-4050-bd03-fb34cc5bf7e3/Just-Learning.aspx…

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Charter School Equity Pledge – ELC Jan 2016

…and graduated levels of support and interventions with consequences for behavior that are individualized, consistent, reasonable, fair, age appropriate and proportional to the severity of the student’s behavior. – Reserve…

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Newsletters

…February 2024 – Court Decision Anniversary; A Plan for Full Funding; Celebrating Black History Month; and More ELC 2023 Year in Review – A Look Back: Victories Worth Celebrating ELC…

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ELC_schoolfundingreport.2013

…1 reviewing information available on official websites for the legislative and executive branches of state government; 2 speaking directly by telephone with a top expert in education funding employed in…

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ELC-memo-to-DOJ-8-31-2015

…a wider recognition of the general failure of AEDY to improve behavior, improve academic outcomes, or make schools safer. However, we have also grown increasingly concerned by the proliferation of…

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ELC memo to DOJ 8-31-2015

…a wider recognition of the general failure of AEDY to improve behavior, improve academic outcomes, or make schools safer. However, we have also grown increasingly concerned by the proliferation of…

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3-15-18 House Education Committee Hearing on School Safety Testimony – ELC Final

…http://coloradosenate.org/home/features/senate-committee-passesbipartisan-bill-by-senators-newell-and-hudak-to-ensure-student-safety-and-success-today http://ccsr.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/publications/SAFETY%20IN%20CPS.pdf https://ccjs.umd.edu/sites/ccjs.umd.edu/files/pubs/Police%20Officers%20in%20Schools-Effects%20on%20School%20Crime%20and%20the%20Processing%20of%20Offending%20Behaviors.pdf https://ccjs.umd.edu/sites/ccjs.umd.edu/files/pubs/Police%20Officers%20in%20Schools-Effects%20on%20School%20Crime%20and%20the%20Processing%20of%20Offending%20Behaviors.pdf 3 statement against Senate 383, which discusses the specific harms of permitting school personnel to carry concealed firearms in school. 2. Enact legislation encouraging districts to…

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ELC Nicole B. Amicus

…e.g. Maura McInerney & Alex Dutton, ELC Steps Up to Protect the Rights of Bullied Students with Disabilities, The Legal Intelligencer (Dec. 26, 2017, 2:45 PM), https://www.law.com/thelegalintelligencer/sites/thelegalintelligencer/2017/12/26/elc-steps-up-to- protect-the-rights-of-bullied-students-with-disabilities/?slreturn=20180014222304. https://www.law.com/thelegalintelligencer/sites/thelegalintelligencer/2017/12/26/elc-steps-up-to-protect-the-rights-of-bullied-students-with-disabilities/?slreturn=20180014222304 https://www.law.com/thelegalintelligencer/sites/thelegalintelligencer/2017/12/26/elc-steps-up-to-protect-the-rights-of-bullied-students-with-disabilities/?slreturn=20180014222304…

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ELC Public Testimony PPS 02-20-2017

…color are not more prone to misbehavior than their white peers1 – and exclusionary discipline does not make schools safer2. We must stop excluding our youngest learners from the academic…

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2016-10-19-issa-third-circuit-brief-of-appellee

…e.g., Glossary, National Center for Education Statistics, https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/glossary.asp#ell (last visited October 12, 2016). -9- refugee immigrants from places like Cuba, Haiti, and Ethiopia, many of whom are also SLIFE. JA533;…

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Transition-Planning-Toolkit-2016

… Most recent Educational Evaluation or Reevaluation  SSI Award Letter  Adaptive behavior/Independent Living Assessments (e.g., the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale)  Intelligence or aptitude test results (e.g., Wechsler…

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