Press release_FINAL

…resources and services in the areas of public education, housing, health care, employment, environmental justice and voting. For more information visit www.pubintlaw.org or follow on Twitter @PubIntLawCtr. https://www.pubintlaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/2018-01-25-Turzai-Brief.pdf http://www.elc-pa.org/ http://www.pubintlaw.org/…

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ElwynComplaintInvestigationReport

Floor | Harrisburg, PA 17126 | Tel: 717-346-9320| Fax: 717-346-9330 | www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us 5 11. OCDEL has posted Administrative Complaint information on the PATTAN ODR website. 12. OCDEL, with…

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Your Rights Disability 8.2017

https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/ disabharassltr.html. 2 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) 20 U.S.C. § 1400, et seq. 22 Pa. Code § 14, et seq. (related to special education); 3 Section 504 of…

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Your Rights Immigrant EL 8.2017

Pa. Code § 11.11(b)-(c). 3 See 24 P.S. § 1301, 1302 and 22 Pa. Code § 11.11(a)(1). 4 Equal Education Opportunity Act 20 U.S.C. § 1703 et seq; Title VI…

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Your Rights Immigrant EL 8.2017

Pa. Code § 11.11(b)-(c). 3 See 24 P.S. § 1301, 1302 and 22 Pa. Code § 11.11(a)(1). 4 Equal Education Opportunity Act 20 U.S.C. § 1703 et seq; Title VI…

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Your Rights Disability 8.2017

https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/ disabharassltr.html. 2 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) 20 U.S.C. § 1400, et seq. 22 Pa. Code § 14, et seq. (related to special education); 3 Section 504 of…

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ELC Testimony on Senate Bill 6

(Available at http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=514&objID=509059&mode=2). http://www.researchforaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/RFA-PACER-SPP-Brief-March-2015-Final.pdf https://www.ed.psu.edu/news/2015-jan-march-news/accountability-measure http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/03/12/in-23-states-richer-school-districts-get-more-local-funding-than-poorer-districts/ http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=514&objID=509059&mode=2 If the sponsors of SB 6 are serious about improving outcomes for students in these schools, they should pass legislation that would ensure…

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Every Student Every Day Response

families, and schools. See Maura McInerney, Education Law Center, Effective Approaches to Increasing Attendance: Testimony Before Senate Education Committee (June 9, 2015), available at http://www.elc-pa.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/ELC-Testimony-For- Legislative-Hearing-on-Truancy-June-9-2015.pdf. http://www.elc-pa.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/ELC_AltEdPA_FullReport_03_2010.pdf http://www.elc-pa.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/ELC-Testimony-For-Legislative-Hearing-on-Truancy-June-9-2015.pdf http://www.elc-pa.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/ELC-Testimony-For-Legislative-Hearing-on-Truancy-June-9-2015.pdf 3…

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2018 10 11 High School Selection LeGare_ELC Testimony to SDP Board

See, Inequities in Pennsylvania’s Charter Sector: Segregation by Disability, 2017, https://www.elc-pa.org/wp- content/uploads/2017/02/ELC-Analysis-Inequities-in-PA-Charter-Schools-Segregation-by-Disability.pdf 5 See, e.g., Demand Letter to Franklin Towne Charter High School, 2018, https://www.elc-pa.org/wp- content/uploads/2018/07/2018-06-26-ltr-to-FTCHS.pdf https://www.elc-pa.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ELC-Analysis-Inequities-in-PA-Charter-Schools-Segregation-by-Disability.pdf https://www.elc-pa.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ELC-Analysis-Inequities-in-PA-Charter-Schools-Segregation-by-Disability.pdf https://www.elc-pa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/2018-06-26-ltr-to-FTCHS.pdf https://www.elc-pa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/2018-06-26-ltr-to-FTCHS.pdf…

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Campaign for Fair Education Funding: Earned Media

…Tom Wolf announces his top advisors. Lancaster Online. 1-12-2015. Letter: Pa. needs a fair school funding formula: PennLive letters. The Patriot News. 1-8-2015. Details of proposed school funding formula coming…

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Supreme Court Amicus Petition for Allowance of Appeal

…2017) ………………………………………………………….. 13 Santos ex rel. Beato v. United States, 559 F.3d 189 (3d Cir. 2009) ……………………………………………………………………. 14 Stoll v. Runyon, 165 F.3d 1238 (9th Cir. 1999), as amended (Mar….

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Opinion: Allow trial on school funding

Alfano ( gja@pietragallo.com), Deborah R. Gross ( dgross@kcr-law.com),and Mary F. Platt ( mplatt@finemanlawfirm.com) respectively serve as chancellor, chancellor-elect, and vice chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association. Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20160217_Allow_trial_on_school_funding.html#toWQvMverZC3PaI7.99…

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18-08-03 Scarnati Response

Labor and Industry, 175 A.2d 56 (Pa. 1961) …………………………………………………………………………… 13 Costa v. Cortes, 142 A.3d 1004 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2016) ………………………………………………………. 4, 19 Cytemp Specialty Steel Division, Cyclops Corporation v. Pennsylvania…

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20170920 Updated Memo in Opposition to HB 1717

the fig leaf of helping children with disabilities to introduce vouchers, we expect it to be substantially similar to HB 1717. http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2017/03/jeb_bush_foundation_staffers_trump_education_department.html http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2017/03/jeb_bush_foundation_staffers_trump_education_department.html http://www.excelined.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Education-Savings-Account-Act-Students-w-Disabilities-Model-Legislation-12.20141.pdf http://www.excelined.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Education-Savings-Account-Act-Students-w-Disabilities-Model-Legislation-12.20141.pdf http://www.excelined.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Education-Savings-Account-Act-Students-w-Disabilities-Model-Legislation-12.20141.pdf 2 received a voucher…

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ELC Analysis Youth Voices Count 2017 FINAL

access to computers to complete assignments which is often unavailable to them outside the classroom. They may also need additional remedial supports, http://www.youthmattersphilly.org/instructions http://www.youthmattersphilly.org/instructions Voices of Youth Count: Missed Educational…

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