ELC memo to DOJ 8-31-2015
1 To: US Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Educational Opportunities Section From: Education Law Center Date: August 31, 2015 Re: Updated Data on Alternative Education for Disruptive Youth in…
More1 To: US Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Educational Opportunities Section From: Education Law Center Date: August 31, 2015 Re: Updated Data on Alternative Education for Disruptive Youth in…
MoreApril 2024 – Education Budget, COVID Make-up Services, Rally for Trans Students, and More ELC Newsletter March 2024 – Governor’s Budget, COVID Compensatory Education, School Closings, and More ELC Newsletter…
MoreELC regularly provides parents, policymakers, school officials, media members, and others reliable, understandable analysis and research on education laws and policies in Pennsylvania.
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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….
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