…April 28, 2016 Thank you for the opportunity to address this critical topic. My name is Alex Dutton and I am an Independence Foundation Public Interest Law Fellow at the…

1 Education Law Center: Effective Approaches to Increasing Attendance Testimony of Maura McInerney Before Senate Education Committee June 9, 2015 Thank you for this opportunity to speak to you today….

…On behalf of the Statewide Coalition of Early Intervention Advocates and the children and families we serve, we thank you for the opportunity to provide public comment on the proposed…

…the parents, students and community members with whom we work, thank you for the opportunity to provide testimony tonight. The Education Law Center is a non-profit, legal advocacy organization dedicated…

…improve educational outcomes for pregnant and parenting students which were developed as a result of a multi-year project focused on this vulnerable student cohort. mailto:[email protected] https://www.phila.gov/departments/department-of-public-health/ https://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah/sites/default/files/tpp-ss-phmc-2018.pdf http://www.philaedfund.org/sites/default/files/Pregnant%20and%20Parenting%20Teens%20in%20Philadelphia–%20Academic%20and%20Social%20Outcomes.pdf http://www.philaedfund.org/sites/default/files/Pregnant%20and%20Parenting%20Teens%20in%20Philadelphia–%20Academic%20and%20Social%20Outcomes.pdf http://articles.philly.com/2012-08-30/news/33477284_1_teen-mothers-teen-pregnancy-rate-teen-births…

…A number of Education Law Center staff members contributed to this report. Special thanks go to Deborah Klehr, Eliza Presson, Brett Schaeffer, and Sandy Zelno. Additional thanks go to Baruch…

…visited Aug. 20, 2013) ………….11 Green Woods Charter School, Admission of Students, http://greenwoodscharter.org/pdf/AdmissionofStudents.pdf (last visited Aug. 20, 2013) ………………………………………………………………………………………………………11 Jay G. Chambers, Total Expenditures for Students with Disabilities: Variation by…

…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…

…be more explicit and should clarify that charters need to post their capacity and current space available on their website. Support   § 17-1723- A(a)(3) Requires that a standard…

…be advertised in community spaces such as libraries and businesses, schools will be asked to add 3 the Nine-Line number to all routine home-school communication that is distributed in the…

…also includes a Supervised Independent Living (SIL) program for youth ages sixteen through twenty-one (16-21) years old. 37. Auberle provides therapeutic care and treatment to children on-site, but does not…

…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…

…granddaughte on a placement through the lottery and had been accepted into FTCHS. Ms. – and ~isited FTCHS and toured the school on or about January 12, 2018. While at…

…Relations Committee, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, March 11. 2008 “The Outlook for the Pennsylvania Economy” presentation before the Pennsylvania State Education Association, Annual Strategic Planning Meeting, November 5th, 2008, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 2007…

…Compensatory Education Tracking Workflow 42. Draft Trend analysis and recruitment and retention plan 43. Child records 44. Session notes 45. Data records of service delivery 46. Permission to Evaluate process…

…(Khadidja testifying). She could not read, write, understand or speak English when she arrived in the U.S. JA569 (Khadidja testifying); 986-987; 990- 993 (student records). Her dream in coming to…

…offer expanded hours to serve working parents. Shelters themselves and transitional housing programs need to offer high quality learning opportunities on site. In addition, we need a statewide campaign to…

…academic achievement; in fact, it may be having the opposite effects.19 In short, even the most simple cost-benefit analysis demonstrates the failure of these approaches. How the “No Child Left…