charter schools. Support a long-term, student-driven, and equitable funding formula that provides adequate resources for every student to be able to meet academic standards. http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/findyourlegislator/ https://www.facebook.com/EdVotersPA?ref=br_tf mailto:[email protected] http://www.educationvoterspa.org/ http://www.fairfundingpa.org/…
MoreRobb Elementary School. We vow to continue to do our part to seek to stop gun violence and the toll it continues to take in our schools and in our…
MoreCarbon County, Greater Johnstown School District, Shenandoah Valley School District in Schuylkill County and the Wilkes-Barre School District have long struggled with the fallout from the state’s education funding debacle….
Moreto improve on a status quo that is painfully inadequate for our students, and we look forward to its results in conjunction with our continued efforts in Harrisburg.” Besides William…
MoreAnd while the cause of death for a first-grader at Andrew Jackson School has not been determined, both cases demand that we take a hard look at the impact the…
MoreFor immediate release: March 26, 2019 For more information: Paul Socolar, 215-372-1650 or [email protected] ELC Applauds U.S. DOJ Agreement to Overhaul PA’s Alternative Education Programs to Protect Students with Disabilities…
MoreCaitlin Emma, Some States Spurn Possible Delay Of Obama Special Education Rule, Politico ( 05/16/2018 ). Accessed at https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-education/2018/05/16/some-states-spurn-possible-delay-of- obama-special-education-rule-220181. https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-education/2018/05/16/some-states-spurn-possible-delay-of-obama-special-education-rule-220181 https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-education/2018/05/16/some-states-spurn-possible-delay-of-obama-special-education-rule-220181 21 whether the subgroups that have historically lost…
Morehttps://www.elc-pa.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ELC-Analysis- Inequities-in-PA-Charter-Schools-Segregation-by-Disability.pdf. 2 than making accommodations and providing the required services and supports.4 Students of color are also counseled out of charters through the overuse of suspensions5 plus codes of…
Morea few hours of education each week. https://www.senatorbrowne.com/special-education-funding-commission/ https://www.senatorbrowne.com/special-education-funding-commission-gallery/ http://www.senatorbrowne.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2015/05/Special-Education-Funding-Commission-Report-121113.pdf Shortchanging Students with Disabilities: State Underfunding of Special Education in PA| 2018 2 billion.8 Local districts had to allocate funds…
MoreGreater Delaware Valley, Peter Gottemoller HIAS Pennsylvania, Valeri Harteg Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition, Maria Sotomayor 2 Pennsylvania Migrant Education Program, Gena Bernal Philadelphia HUNE, Inc., Yovana Bustamante-Arroyo Nationalities Service…
Morethe rest of the school year, schools were expected to continue to provide education in some form. But the pivot to online instruction was not a smooth one, particularly in…
Moreto the Pennsylvania Department of Education about this kind of stupidity.” Except someone already did. Last year, the local Coalition of Special Education Advocates filed a formal complaint with the…
Morelaw also supports homeless and foster youth with college retention, success, and completion by: Designating single points of contact at institutions of higher education to assist homeless and foster youth…
MoreLaw Center (h�p://www.jlc.org) http://thenotebook.org/articles/2017/06/22/pa-guidelines-for-school-discipline-may-change http://www.sentencingproject.org/criminal-justice-facts/ http://generocity.org/philly/2016/09/29/technology-criminal-records-expungement-clinics/ http://generocity.org/philly/2017/04/25/these-cuts-hurt-panel-budget-trump/ http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2016/10/how_did_pennsylvania_s_criminal_justice_system_fail_this_profoundly.html http://www.safetyandjusticechallenge.org/2015/11/decision-points-disproportionate-pretrial-detention-of-blacks-and-latinos-drives-mass-incarceration/ http://generocity.org/philly/2016/09/29/reforming-justice-system-keir-bradford-grey/ http://www.safetyandjusticechallenge.org/2017/02/pretrial-detention-costs-13-6-billion-year/ http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/opinion-and-essays/item/105966-op-ed-expungements-can-erase-the-stigma-that-haunts-people-of-color&Itemid=20&linktype=hp_opinionessays https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX3a9hbQZNU&feature=youtu.be https://www.law.upenn.edu/institutes/quattronecenter/conference/springsymposium2016/risk-assessment-tools.php http://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/color-of-justice-racial-and-ethnic-disparity-in-state-prisons/ http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20161003_From_drugs_to_diplomas.html http://aldianews.com/articles/local/philadelphia/want-save-life-push-few-buttons/47305 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT8ta1tfWos https://www.cbsnews.com/news/friends-in-court-the-growing-impact-of-participatory-defense/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/a-replacement-for-overworked-public-defenders/532476/ https://thecrimereport.org/2017/06/13/will-justice-reform-survive-the-revival-of-tough-on-crime-policies/ https://www.themarshallproject.org/2017/07/19/nine-lessons-about-criminal-justice-reform#.Ohu4ywCjO https://billypenn.com/2017/06/12/philly-slashed-its-jail-population-by-almost-20-percent-in-just-2-years/ http://www.philadefender.org/ https://clsphila.org/ http://www.elc-pa.org/ http://www.jlc.org/ 8/25/2017 ‘We are…
Morepublic school. She spoke movingly of parents like her: From low-income neighborhoods, where schools have long struggled to provide a good education, whose children make up the thousands on charter…
Morepeople deemed unworthy of embodying in their Constitution. We cannot avoid our responsibility to monitor the General Assembly’s efforts in service of its mandate and to measure those effects against…
Moreto expel students under the weapons provision of the Pennsylvania School Code by holding that everyday objects cannot be treated as weapons for the purposes of school discipline. Background In…
Moreschool funding lawsuit is not moot Commonwealth Court dismisses Senator Scarnati’s motion that the case was rendered moot by the adoption of a fair funding formula in 2016 Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth…
MoreBristol, Borough of (school); Cheltenham Township; Conshohocken, Borough of (school); Doylestown, City of; East Norriton, City of; Easton, City of; Erie County; Harrisburg, City of (school); Hatboro; City of Haverford…
Moreeducation so that it cannot be treated just as any other service.” mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] http://www.pacourts.us/assets/opinions/Commonwealth/out/587MD14_5-7-18.pdf?cb=1 http://www.pacourts.us/assets/opinions/Commonwealth/out/587MD14_5-7-18.pdf?cb=1 Second, Senator Scarnati continues to assert that the entire case is moot, arguing that…
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