…districts from adding any additional terms or requiring any additional information. Since the educational outlook is different in every community, it is impossible for PDE to foresee the unique needs…
More…adequate workspaces or to school supplies” in doubled-up situations. These students often report that they “feel unsafe, lack privacy, and a quiet space to do school work.”23 Students who are…
More…Legal Defense Fund, 2017, http://www.naacpldf.org/files/about-us/Bias_Reportv2017_30_11_FINAL.pdf. 8 See A state-by-state look at students referred to law enforcement, Center for Public Integrity, Apr. 10, 2015, https://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/04/10/17074/state-state-look-students-referred-law-enforcement. 9 See, e.g., Complaint: District fails…
More…districts, and intermediate units, as well as contracts with school districts and intermediate units for educational services provided by private residential rehabilitative institutions like Glen Mills. PDE has an office…
More…districts, and intermediate units, as well as contracts with school districts and intermediate units for educational services provided by private residential rehabilitative institutions like Glen Mills. PDE has an office…
More…of an urban environment. I think there has to be a shift in how we address these behaviors … and it is beginning to happen.” David Lapp, an attorney with…
More…PHRC’s determination that plaintiff’s complaint was untimely should have been filed with the Commonwealth Court within thirty days of the PHRC’s determination ……………………………………………………. 22 II. The Trial Court Correctly Held…
More…determined a district’s adequacy target in accordance with the costing-out study’s weightings and then subtracted actual spending to determine the district’s shortfall. (See id. ¶¶ 125, 132.) The formula then…
More…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…
More…{Page 17} Appendices A – List of special education expert panel participants……………… {Page 36} B – Organizations responsible for this report ………………………….. {Page 37} C – Websites and other sources…
MoreWHYY quotes ELC Executive Director Deborah Gordon Klehr on Governor Wolf’s proposed budget. “Our children need more,” Klehr writes. Read more here….
More…it done. This month Pennsylvania began 2016 without a full budget, leaving the short- and long-term needs of every school — and every student — up in the air. In…
More…risks are exposed, Philadelphia CityPaper (May 8, 2014), http://citypaper.net/News/Philly-School-District-blocks- a-federal-study-after-health-risks-are-exposed/ (reporting that the School District of Philadelphia has refused to make public the complete findings of a study revealing pervasive…
MoreBY KEVIN MCCORRY, April 9 2015 – by Kevin McCorry, WHYY/NewsWorks – File this story under “wonky but important.” In an era where standardized test scores often determine a school’s…
More…President Obama’s term of office. When this Administration issued federal discipline guidance in 2014, it was pivotal both in clarifying the civil rights of students and in shifting the discourse…
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…C.F.R. § 300.530(g). For children 21 federal and Pennsylvania laws, a manifestation determination review must be conducted to disability.62 If during the manifestation determination the LEA determines that the conduct…
More…C.F.R. § 300.530(g). For children 21 federal and Pennsylvania laws, a manifestation determination review must be conducted to disability.62 If during the manifestation determination the LEA determines that the conduct…
More…determinations regarding the relative credibility and persuasiveness of the witnesses”. Blount v. Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit, 2003 LEXIS 21639 at *28 (2003); See also generally David G. v. Council Rock School…
More…Opinion of the Justices, 624 So. 2d 107, 114 (Ala. 1993). http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/ http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jeff-sessions-says-he-handled-these-civil-rights-cases-he-barely-touched-them/2017/01/03/4ddfffa6-d0fa-11e6-a783-cd3fa950f2fd_story.html?utm_term=.f09e50846bba https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jeff-sessions-says-he-handled-these-civil-rights-cases-he-barely-touched-them/2017/01/03/4ddfffa6-d0fa-11e6-a783-cd3fa950f2fd_story.html?utm_term=.f09e50846bba 4 authority to oversee the state’s school funding plans.20 He then petitioned the court to…
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