May 20, 2015 – Denisa R. Superville, Education Week – A group of Pennsylvania school districts, parents, and two statewide organizations is appealing a court ruling that dismissed a lawsuit…
More…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…
Moreis this $5.5 billion distributed in basic education funding with no rhyme or reason?’ ” In 1991, the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools, a coalition of rural and…
More…Denied. 270-283. Admitted. 284-286. After reasonable inquiry the Board is without knowledge or information sufficient to form a belief as to the truth of the averments of these paragraphs and…
More…e.g., Bruce Baker, The Commonwealth Triple-Screw: Special Education Funding & Charter School Payments in Pennsylvania, School Finance 101 (June 5, 2012), http://schoolfinance101.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/the- commonwealth-triple-screw-special-education-funding-charter-school-payments-in-pennsylvania. http://www.pewtrusts.org/our_work_report_detail.aspx?id=59683 http://schoolfinance101.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/the-commonwealth-triple-screw-special-education-funding-charter-school-payments-in-pennsylvania http://schoolfinance101.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/the-commonwealth-triple-screw-special-education-funding-charter-school-payments-in-pennsylvania 2 2011-‐2012 Proportions of…
More…Comm’n, 879 A.2d 146, 153-54 (Pa. 2005) (holding that the Walker rule applies “in a variety of other agency proceedings” where an agency’s own regulations are silent on hearsay rules)….
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…
More…15. 17 II. PETITIONERS’ CLAIMS ARE NOT SUBJECT TO STRICT SCRUTINY. Petitioners argue that the Commonwealth’s education funding scheme is unconstitutional under any level of scrutiny, but that it should…
More…public educational environments. We appreciate the Safe School-based Enforcement through Collaboration, Understanding and Respect (SECURe) Rubrics that detail steps school districts should take to ensure that police in schools have…
More…required. It is further averred that, although a ruling on Speaker Turzai’s forthcoming motion for partial summary relief will not foreclose Petitioners’ claim under the Education Clause, a ruling on…
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…
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…
More…Now is the Time to Reform Truancy Rules Chalkbeat Philadelphia 12/10: Students fight for right to vote on Philadelphia’s school board Philadelphia Eagles 12/9: Eagles look to help level the…
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…
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…6000 Castor Ave, Phila. 19149 (215) 289-9103 Brightside Academy – Harrowgate 3528 I St., Phila. 19134 (215) 426-7300 Brightside Academy – Van Pelt 2010 N Van Pelt St., Phila. 19121…
More…HS Brightside Academy – Castor 6000 Castor Ave. 19149 (215) 289-9103 HS Brightside Academy – Courtland 543 W. Courtland St. 19140 (215) 329-0614 HS Brightside Academy – East Allegheny 341…
Moreneeds. 6 n Funding, Formulas, and Fairness n Education Law Center n February 2013 Checking and updating student and district data and related costs are crucial practices for states to…
More…of my disposition of this matter. 4 Stipulated facts are cited “Stip. #.” Findings based upon exhibits are cited to the exhibits J 1 through 28 admitted into evidence by…
More…Absences, THE NEW REPUBLIC (Mar. 6, 2015), https://newrepublic.com/article/121186/truancy-laws- unfairly-attack-poor-children-and-parents …………………………………………………. 18 DEBORAH FOWLER ET. AL., TEXAS APPLESEED, CLASS, NOT COURT: RECONSIDERING TEXAS’ CRIMINALIZATION OF TRUANCY 14 (2015), https://www.texasappleseed.org/sites/default/files/TruancyReport_ All_FINAL_SinglePages.pdf ……………………………………………………………..passim…
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