…to ELC’s historic and current work. Most recently, our advocacy efforts have included: establishing fair residency rules for children in foster care or experiencing homelessness; ensuring the full inclusion of…

…and through their undersigned counsel, respectfully submit the following Preliminary Objections to the Petition for Review in the Nature of an Action for Declaratory Received 12/10/2014 Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania…

…February 2017, the Trump Administration withdrew 2016 guidance from the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice that affirmed Title IX’s protection of transgender students. However, while the 2016 guidance served…

…student services must be “an integral part of the instructional program at all levels of the school system.” 22 Pa. Code § 12.41(c)(1); planned instruction in “[v]ocational-technical education, . ….

…breaking school rules. One boy said he was beaten and choked for running away. Another student suffered a broken jaw over a joke about a counselor’s sister. The U.S. Department…

needs. 6 n Funding, Formulas, and Fairness n Education Law Center n February 2013 Checking and updating student and district data and related costs are crucial practices for states to…

…there were instances of Student contracting diaper rashes from sitting in a soiled diaper for excessive amounts of time. (J 10, 12, 13, 14 16.) 12. Parents attempted to utilize…

…TRUANCY REDUCTION 122–27, 135 (2015), https://1.cdn.edl.io/UbpaOxyxPZCYTvrU0QUvkXWBk2je1WbxoB6S1U0sc8sFta Bv.pdf. For habitually truant students with disabilities, it is particularly important that interventions focus on school-based approaches which view the student’s nonattendance in the…

…to be unemployed  More likely to become a drug addict  Estimated cost of a youth who drops out and turns to crime & drugs — $1.7 to $2.3…

…suffered sexual abuse, as the nature of the offense and its impact constitute an extraordinary circumstance. See, e.g., Stoll v. Runyon, 165 F.3d 1238, 1242 (9th Cir. 1999), as amended…

…of Child Welfare Report, available at http://www.papartnerships.org/reports/2016_socw/source_files/Pennsylvania%202016%20SOCW.pdf. http://www.ocfcpacourts.us/assets/upload/2015%20Final%20Truancy%20Report(1).pdf http://www.ocfcpacourts.us/childrens-roundtable-initiative/state-roundtable-workgroupscommittees/educational-success-and-truancy-prevention http://www.ocfcpacourts.us/childrens-roundtable-initiative/state-roundtable-workgroupscommittees/educational-success-and-truancy-prevention http://www.papartnerships.org/reports/2016_socw/source_files/Pennsylvania%202016%20SOCW.pdf 3 increase in the number of students experiencing homelessness between the 2011-12 school year to 2013-14 school year, Pennsylvania’s…

…Committee for School Safety keenly observed that “the issue of school safety necessarily encompasses a broad spectrum of issues.” It extends beyond “the physical security of school buildings, emergency planning,…