Zero Tolerance for Zero Tolerance
…years, Bethel had witnessed the escalation of the school safety movement, intended to prevent the sort of carnage that occurred at Columbine in 1999. In Philadelphia, zero tolerance for guns…
More…years, Bethel had witnessed the escalation of the school safety movement, intended to prevent the sort of carnage that occurred at Columbine in 1999. In Philadelphia, zero tolerance for guns…
More…Court has original jurisdiction pursuant to 42 Pa.C.S. § 761(a). 2 QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether the petition for review presents non-justiciable political questions which the Pennsylvania Constitution commits to the…
More…taxes, and federal funding). On all previous occasions, such claims have failed. Twice, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has sustained preliminary objections on the basis that the issues raised are not…
More…with the adoption of the American Rescue Plan in March 2021. Meanwhile, as school resumed in September, ELC prepared an equity checklist to help ensure that all students and families…
More…BAR ASSOCIATION, EDUCATING CHILDREN WITHOUT HOUSING: A PRIMER ON LEGAL REQUIREMENTS AND IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES FOR EDUCATORS, ADVOCATES AND POLICYMAKERS, at 4 (2009). 4 Id. at 3. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9589175 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9589175 3 They…
More…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…
More…need a long-term funding formula that’s sustainable, predictable and adequate, and until we have that, decisions like this one will continue to destabilize the district’s finances.” The ruling immediately throws…
More…for all school districts, rather than using selective political influences and favors for some districts? (The most common forms of non-objective funding include hold-harmless spending, minimum increases, multiple formulas aimed…
Moreso obvious that it is assumed. In Hamilton, for example, the state Supreme Court clearly assumed that, in order to uphold the expulsion, it was necessary to find that the…
More…Philadelphia’s traditional district schools and proponents of charters — built mainly on the premise that the two sectors aren’t playing by the same rules. Tension between the two have festered…
More…GET IN TROUBLE FOR WALKING OUT? Maybe. As the Supreme Court said, students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” But,…
Moreof Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 32(a)(6) because it has been prepared in a proportionally spaced typeface using Microsoft Word in 14-point Times New Roman font. Electronic Filing. I prepared…
More…11111 when she visited the school, asked a number of questions including whether the enrolling student had ever been suspended or expelled, required medication or had an IEP. Ms …….
More…this has never occurred. El students are barely represented in special admission schools as parents struggle to navigate the process and are not informed of available waivers for standardized tests…
Moredispute. 1. “Interpretation” describes the act of restating spoken language in a different language. Interpretation can either be simultaneous (in which the interpreter restates the communication as it is said)…
Moretechniques…” As explained in its Preamble, the law seeks to: • Preserve the unity of the family whenever possible as the underlying issues of truancy are addressed; • Avoid the…
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More…The within policy shall apply across all grade spans served by the District, beginning with Pre-K and including programs that serve District students with disabilities through the age of 21….
More…Education, PDE, School District Data at a Glance, http://penndata.hbg.psu.edu/BSEReports/DataPreview.aspx# (click “Data at a Glance State Report” and select the corresponding years). These figures represent racial demographics for all grades. 2…
More…each actual student can be greater or less than this average.65 For many years, Pennsylvania distributed state special education dollars to school districts according to a “census-based” approach which “presumed”…
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