The landmark Pennsylvania education funding lawsuit filed by ELC and its partners can proceed, a Commonwealth Court judge ruled, as reported by Dale Mezzacappa of the Philadelphia Public School Notebook….
Morecan play a crucial role in supporting teacher success in handling a more diverse classroom and in minimizing and quickly addressing any instructional issues that arise. All students must have…
More…Area School District, Shenandoah Valley School District, Jamella and Bryant Miller, Sheila Armstrong, Tyesha Strickland, Angel Martinez, Barbara Nemeth, Tracey Hughes, Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools, and the…
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More…state NAACP, the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools, and handful of families with children enrolled in public schools. If the lawsuit is successful, the result would likely be…
More…public educational environments. We appreciate the Safe School-based Enforcement through Collaboration, Understanding and Respect (SECURe) Rubrics that detail steps school districts should take to ensure that police in schools have…
More…Kindergarten through second grade.1 Whenever a school makes the decision to suspend a student, it increases that child’s likelihood of future educational barriers and challenges, including discipline, truancy, and dropout,…
More…Johnstown, Wilkes-Barre Area and Shenandoah Valley – the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools, and the NAACP Pennsylvania State Conference. “Today’s ruling represents a major victory for civil rights…
More…of seeking partial summary relief on the nature of the constitutional right underlying Petitioners’ equal protection claim and the corresponding level of judicial scrutiny (May 7 Order at 1), any…
More…six school districts, seven parents, the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools and the NAACP called on the panel of seven judges to hold a trial on their claims…
More…Protection Clause. 4 After hearing argument, this Court overruled, without prejudice, the preliminary objections regarding the nature of the constitutional rights at issue and the level of scrutiny to be…
More…impact on learning and instruction? As a result of surveys, in-depth interviews and research reviews, we have concluded that the shortage is having a more significant, widespread, and potentially long-term…
More…: Docket No. 587 M.D. 2014 ANSWER TO PETITIONERS’ APPLICATION FOR RELIEF Pursuant to Pennsylvania Rule of Appellate Procedure 123, Respondent Joseph B. Scarnati, III, President pro tempore of the…
More…Absences, THE NEW REPUBLIC (Mar. 6, 2015), https://newrepublic.com/article/121186/truancy-laws- unfairly-attack-poor-children-and-parents …………………………………………………. 18 DEBORAH FOWLER ET. AL., TEXAS APPLESEED, CLASS, NOT COURT: RECONSIDERING TEXAS’ CRIMINALIZATION OF TRUANCY 14 (2015), https://www.texasappleseed.org/sites/default/files/TruancyReport_ All_FINAL_SinglePages.pdf ……………………………………………………………..passim…
More…by the coronavirus, have also borne the brunt of school disruption, receiving diminished educational services. And students in underfunded school districts have been subjected to deplorable school building conditions. See…
More…especially those struggling and disadvantaged districts, the General Assembly must work with the Governor to increase overall education funding.” The brief was filed as a response to the petitioners’ July…
More…it overruled “without prejudice, preliminary objections concerning the nature of the constitutional rights at issue and the corresponding level of judicial scrutiny to be applied.” It also deferred ruling on…
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MoreThe Education Law Center (ELC) filed comments strongly opposing the Department of Education’s (DOE) proposed rules regarding Title IX investigations. The proposed rules would protect schools from liability at the…
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