ELC_DOJ_AEDYComplaint_8_7_13

…use of controlled substances on school property or during school- affiliated activities; (3) violent or threatening behavior on school property or during school-related activities; (4) possession of a weapon on…

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Back-to-School Guide 2022

…created a new page on our website to centralize information and resources about our advocacy for inclusive schools that provide honest and accurate education. Learn more and get involved! What’s…

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Philadelphia’s shift in discipline policy

…the Philadelphia-based Education Law Center, who has represented students facing expulsion, agrees. “There’s a willingness now to … look at mitigating circumstances and not just blindly say, `This happened; this…

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ELC Support Center PCCY Comments to Proposed Criminal Court Rules Re Inability to Pay

…being eliminated, Denton Record Chronicle (June 2015) http://www.dentonrc.com/news/state/2015/06/20/criminal-truancy-courts-for-students-being-eliminated http://youthlaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Truancy-Research.pdf. https://www.texasappleseed.org/sites/default/files/TruancyReport_All_FINAL_SinglePages.pdf http://www.publiccounsel.org/tools/assets/files/Counterproductive-and-Wasteful-Los-Angeles-daytime-curfew-report_FINAL.pdf. 4 • Confine a person in parental relation to a child who is habitually truant only as a last…

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ELC analysis of HB 530 and SB 856-6-19-2015

…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…

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McKeesport FINAL COMPLAINT 10 14

…for any money claimed in the Complaint or for any claim or relief requested by the plaintiff. You may lose money or property or other rights important to you. YOU…

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2018-06-26-ltr-to-FTCHS

…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…

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The Comeback of Charters

…50 charters calling itself Philadelphia Charters for Excellence (PCE), along with the advocacy arm of charter-friendly Philadelphia School Partnership, issued a position paper that called for the closing of poor-performing…

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Scarnati Brief

…Board’s web site. See Augenblick, Palaich and Associates, Inc., Costing Out the Resources Needed to Meet Pennsylvania’s Public Education Goals, Revised (December 2007), available at http://www.stateboard.education.pa.gov/Reports/Costing-Out/Pages/default.aspx. -5- percentage of students…

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ElwynComplaintInvestigationReport

…child’s IEP. SOURCES OF INFORMATION: The following sources of information were used to complete this Complaint Investigation Report: Documents: 1. Elwyn Problem Solving flowchart with timelines 2. Elwyn Revised PTE…

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WmPenn_v_PDE_LegislativeBranch_PreliminaryObjections

…between the actual resources provided to school districts and the resources necessary to provide children in Pennsylvania with what Petitioners characterize as “an adequate education.” [Id.]. 19. Petitioners allege that…

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Ex. A to Complaint

…failed to properly evaluate the Student, incorrectly identi fied the Student as a student with an intellectual disability, and failed to offer an appropriate program and placement for the Student….

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