School Funding Trial Has Concluded

…an interactive map of Pennsylvania school districts and their school funding “adequacy gaps.” • Read, download, print, and distribute fliers and fact sheets about the lawsuit. • Read more about…

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Read ELC’s New Special Education Funding Report

…Brown students who are disproportionately impacted by the state’s underfunding of public education.   Read the report here.  Find data for each of Pennsylvania’s 500 school districts here.  Read the press…

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McKeesport.Settlement.Final

…in your care as a potential class member for future communication, contact: Jennifer Fox Rabold, Settlement Administrator Phone: 800.543.8921.or Email: [email protected]. or by letter to: McKeesport Settlement c/o Jennifer Fox

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Supreme Court Amicus Petition for Allowance of Appeal

…18 iii CONCLUSION ………………………………………………………………………………………….. 20 CERTIFICATE OF WORD COUNT ……………………………………………………………. 21 CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE …………………………………………………………….. 21 iv TABLE OF AUTHORITIES Page(s) CASES Albright v. Keystone Rural Health Ctr., 320 F….

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Glen Mills Class Action Press Release

…on his education. After years of struggling in school, Walter was making progress with full-time special education instruction and counseling as a related service due to his emotional dis-regulation and…

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Petitioners’ Brief

…the exemption portions pursuant to section of this Rule. The 2016 Microsoft Word program that produced the brief provided this word count. Dated: February 15, 2018 By: /s/ Brad Elias…

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ELC_Guide_FairnessinDiscipline_Sept09

…student newspaper that would not be seen as school-sponsored speech). 22 e. Speech that constitutes a “true threat” does not receive First Amendment protection Speech that constitutes a “true threat”…

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African-American teacher reading to school children

An African-American teacher, a mature woman in her 40s, sitting in front of her class of elementary school students, 6 and 7 years old, reading a book. She has asked a question and most of the children are raising their hands. They are in first grade or second grade.

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African-American teacher reading to school children

An African-American teacher, a mature woman in her 40s, sitting in front of her class of elementary school students, 6 and 7 years old, reading a book. She has asked a question and most of the children are raising their hands. They are in first grade or second grade.

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Derrick et al. v. Glen Mills Schools et al.

…these actions followed groundbreaking investigative reporting by the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Lisa Gartner. Read our April 2019 press release here. Read our complaint here. Read our comprehensive brief here, filed Aug….

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GS Filed AMICUS Brief 2018

…ResidentialInstabilityandtheMcKinney-VentroHomeless-2010.pdf ………… 11, 13 Russell Rumberger, Student Mobility: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions, National Education Policy Center (2015), http://nepc.colorado.edu/files/pb_rumberger-student-mobility.pdf ………………… 7 Ý¿­»æ ïéóîèèê ܱ½«³»²¬æ ððíïïîèêíêðï п¹»æ é Ü¿¬» Ú·´»¼æ ðîñîèñîðïè TABLE…

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School-funding system ‘broken,’ Pa. judges hear

…to get out of here as soon as possible and get to the Supreme Court,” Brobson said. It is not clear when the court will rule on Wednesday’s arguments. http://mobile.philly.com/news/breaking/?wss=/philly/news/breaking&id=295962701&…

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