…Students & Parents: Through A Truancy Lens Hundreds of parents, many impoverished and overwhelmed, have been jailed in Pennsylvania for failing to pay court fines that arise from truancy hearings…
MoreWelfare System Special Problem: � Unaccompanied Homeless Youth Overview: Rights of Surrogate Parents Important… A Surrogate Parent’s Right to � Education Records �� Step One: �Requesting An Initial Evaluation Special…
More…am floored. Children thrive on routine and structure. And parents – especially those working outside the home – need a degree of reliability to keep family life from flying off…
More…in effect at McCaskey, including daily pat-down searches. Phoenix bars its students from bringing in or out any personal belongings, like backpacks, food, books, and even homework. And a strict…
More…up ill-equipped for careers, citizenship and lifelong learning. 2 Parents United for Public Education (Parents United) is a parent- led organization working to ensure a baseline level of resources, services…
More…attempts to meaningfully engage parents in this process by providing official notice in the language preferred by the parent and contacting parents via telephone. Schools who fail to hold conferences…
Moreinterpretation services to permit parents and students to engage in schools. Immigrant students are legally entitled to equal educational opportunities but fail to receive those opportunities if their parents are…
More…education system, including economically- disadvantaged children, minority children, children with disabilities, English language learners, children experiencing homelessness, children in foster homes and institutions, and others. Through individual advocacy, class action…
More…education system, including economically- disadvantaged children, minority children, children with disabilities, English language learners, children experiencing homelessness, children in foster homes and institutions, and others. Through individual advocacy, class action…
Morehttp://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…
More…2002). Parent’s Native Language The noti fication required by 20 U.S.C. § 1415(b)(3) must be sent “in the native language of the parents, unless it clearly is not feasible to…
MoreDecember 1, 2015 Parents, school districts urge courts to intervene in school funding crisis Harrisburg, Pa. –Parents and school districts challenging Pennsylvania’s school funding system told the state Supreme Court…
More…11-12; Hughes Aff. ¶¶ 6, 8, 13, 15.) And there are not enough textbooks for their children to bring home to do their homework. (Hughes Aff. ¶ 5; Miller Aff….
More…student with disabilities when the decision is based on a reason other than racial balance or space. Information regarding the impartial review and hearing procedures will be provided to parents…
More1 Lead and Its Impact on Learning: What Schools, Parents & Policymakers Need to Know and Do By Maura McInerney, Esq. and Alissa S. Werzen, M.D. Executive Summary The lead…
MoreAltoona disclosed alarming exposure rates of over 20%.[footnoteRef:2] By comparison, Flint’s rate of lead exposure above 5 µg/dL for 2014 was 3.21 percent.[footnoteRef:3] [1: See Pennsylvania Childhood Lead Poisoning Elimination…
MoreNov. 11, 2014 – Kristen Graham, Philadelphia Inquirer – Alleging that Pennsylvania’s education-funding system is “irrational and inequitable,” a group of parents, school districts, and organizations on Monday sued the…
More…Philadelphia Public School Notebook 5/7: Public demands that Council invest in schools Philadelphia Inquirer 5/6: End abatements, air-condition the schools, say Philly teachers, parents pushing for more education money April 2019 Philadelphia…
More…Elementary into a Renaissance school run by Mastery Charters—is that underneath it all, it was a dramatic retelling of the same old story. On the one side were desperate parents…
MoreMay 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…
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