district shall provide a program for each student whose dominant language is not English for the purpose of facilitating the student’s achievement of English proficiency and the academic standards under…

English: ELLs must be tested to determine English proficiency and placed in the appropriate English as a Second Language (ESL) program. Planned instruction must be provided by a qualified ESL…

…Statistics, Education Finance Statistics Center Table A-1, http://nces.ed.gov/edfin/Fy11_12_tables.asp (last visited Sept. 17, 2015) (analyzing the most recently available data from the 2011-12 school year). 13 the districts with the least…

…school district contributions are the amount after subtracting the Commonwealth share. In 2010- 11, the school district share was approximately $296 million. In 2012-13, total PSERS contributions were approximately $1.3…

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…of students with disabilities and English Learners (or “ELs”), immigrants and limited English proficient (“LEP”) parents. These diverse stakeholders have raised significant and similar concerns regarding barriers that prevent equitable…

…To Learn English • You have the legal right to learn English. • You must receive sufficient language instruction to help you overcome language barriers. • You must be placed…

…To Learn English • You have the legal right to learn English. • You must receive sufficient language instruction to help you overcome language barriers. • You must be placed…

…III. Education and Crime The public bears a huge financial burden from crime and its related costs to society. The overall “price tag” for crime includes tangible and intangible costs…

…discoverable and manageable standards for resolving it; the impossibility of deciding without an initial policy determination of a kind clearly for nonjudicial discretion; the impossibility of a court’s undertaking independent…

…{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…

…“thorough and efficient” funding requirements of the state constitution? 2 Does the budget proposal use accurate student data to distribute education dollars? 3 Does the proposal fairly distribute dollars to…

groups, teachers, administrators and other professionals regarding the needs of English Language Learners (or ‘ELs’), immigrants and limited English proficient parents. These diverse groups have raised significant and similar concerns….

…simply overlooked. Severe underfunding like that described in Exhibit A afflicts impoverished school districts schools across the state13—from Mount Carmel Area School District (Northumberland County) to Juniata County School District…