Analysis & Research
ELC regularly provides parents, policymakers, school officials, media members, and others reliable, understandable analysis and research on education laws and policies in Pennsylvania.
MoreELC regularly provides parents, policymakers, school officials, media members, and others reliable, understandable analysis and research on education laws and policies in Pennsylvania.
MoreThe graphs in this analysis were created by the Education Law Center using publicly reported data on public school enrollment demographics. We focused on Pennsylvania’s most heavily-chartered communities — Philadelphia,…
More…headed down the wrong path. (The following analysis highlights proposed changes to the law. These changes were not adopted in 2012 or 2013, but many of them are contained in…
MoreThis analysis was prepared by Paige Joki, Esq. and Maura McInerney, Esq. at the Education Law Center – PA. Education Law Center | www.elc-pa.org | facebook.com/educationlawcenter | @edlawcenterpa Voices of…
MoreELC Analysis of Senate School Code Bill 12/11/2015 Pennsylvania’s public school funding crisis cannot be resolved by legislating new costs that will eventually exceed new revenues. Unfortunately, the School Code…
MoreEducation Law Center (“ELC”). ELC is a statewide non-profit legal advocacy organization dedicated to ensuring that all of Pennsylvania’s students have access to a quality public education. ELC advocates on…
More…to the Pennsylvania Department of Education about this kind of stupidity.” Except someone already did. Last year, the local Coalition of Special Education Advocates filed a formal complaint with the…
Morepreservation of “local control” to abdicate its affirmative duty under the Education Clause, id. at 442 n.40 (“recitations of the need for local control cannot relieve the General Assembly of…
More…Education, Education for Homeless Children and Youth Program: Analysis of 2006-2007 Federal Data Collection and Three-Year Comparison, 6 (2008), https://www2.ed.gov/programs/homeless/datacomp03- 06rpt.pdf. 8 National Center on Homeless Education, Federal Data Summary…
MoreCourses of Study: Services/Activities: Other Action Steps: Skills Attainment: Direct instruction in specific academic skills Soft skills/social skills training Self-advocacy training Email and social media etiquette Career or Technical Training/Vocational…
Morediscipline. In 2012, however, dissatisfaction with the results led to a tectonic shift in policy. The School District adopted a new discipline code that has more of a case-by-case, individualized…
Morea website created off-campus. Because the site did not cause a substantial disruption, the de minimus accessing of the site from school did not provide grounds for discipline. On the…
Moreservices, including special education services. The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) ordered significant corrective action, including individual compensatory education and system reform, in response to an ELC complaint filed in…
Moretherefore moot. And, because none of the exceptions to the mootness doctrine apply here, the Court should grant Senator Scarnati’s December 27, 2017 application to dismiss this case as moot….
MoreNew Report on Black Girls and Public Schools: “We Need Supportive Spaces That Celebrate Us” ELC Newsletter April 2023 – State Education Budget, Inclusive Schools Advocacy, Defending Students’ Rights, and…
Morewith disabilities who aspire to attend the city’s top schools. These learning needs include special education and English-language learning services. Due to a consent decree won by Education Law Center…
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