…basis of disability in school discipline; ii. Practical and detailed descriptions of the permissible reasons for placement into an AEDY Program, including explanations of each placement category, alternatives to AEDY…
More…other categories. We advocate for fairness in school discipline. We work to eliminate zero tolerance policies, reduce exclusionary discipline, and promote positive interventions and supports for all students to stay…
More…legal guidance in January 2014 which outlined, in great detail, public elementary and secondary schools’ obligation to administer student discipline in a nondiscriminatory manner under Titles IV and VI of…
More…have access to a free, quality public education. For decades, the Education Law Center has been at the forefront of reforms in school discipline. On behalf of the most educationally…
MoreApril 19, 2017 – PennLive – by Jan Murphy After putting in place a rash of laws over the past two decades to stem the tide of school…
MoreApril 27, 2017 – Philadelphia Inquirer– by Kristen Graham The Philadelphia School District should permanently prohibit out-of-school suspensions of children through fifth grade, a group of child advocates…
MoreOctober 28, 2016 Truancy is an urgent issue across the Commonwealth because the cost to our children and communities is so high: absence from school results in lower…
MoreSave the date! March 9, 2016: 6–8 p.m. Monique W. Morris, cofounder of the National Black Women’s Justice Institute and author of Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls…
MoreMarch 25, 2014 – by Kevin McCorry, Newsworks – Philadelphia School District has directed school police officers to stop responding to calls related to Level 1 student conduct…
MoreMay 3, 2017 – WHYY Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane Last year, the Philadelphia School District ended most out-of-school suspensions for kindergartners. However, thousands of elementary school children—first…
More“We are the counter force: Four public interest lawyers on fighting racial injustice.” An article by Education Law Center’s Deborah Gordon Klehr, Juvenile Law Center’s Sue Vivian Mangold,…
MoreMay 2, 2017 – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – by Dan Majors The pen may be mightier than the sword, but a pencil is not a weapon. That is the…
MoreApril 19, 2017 – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – by Molly Born A proposal in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to end out-of-school suspensions for most elementary students comes as…
More…expertise on education law and policy issues, including fairness in school discipline, equal access to education for at-risk students, and fair funding for public education. She has served as ELC’s…
More…conclude: “ELC applauds the U.S Commission on Civil Rights’ efforts to highlight the issue of discriminatory discipline of students of color with disabilities and the need for continued enforcement of…
More…featured in an article from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette covering the Pittsburgh Public Schools’ effort to decrease the use of exclusionary discipline and increase protections and supports for LGBTQ students, parenting…
More…featured in an article from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette covering the Pittsburgh Public Schools’ effort to decrease the use of exclusionary discipline and increase protections and supports for LGBTQ students, parenting…
More…out of court. He’ll be joined by education activist HAROLD JORDAN of the Pennsylvania ACLU, author of a recent report Beyond Zero Tolerance: Discipline and Policing in Pennsylvania Public Schools….
MoreNovember 20, 2013 – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – In the Nov. 15 article on the decrease in court referrals from Brashear High School (“Concerns Raised Over Brashear Discipline”), Magistrate District Judge…
MoreThis OCR complaint enforced the rights of English language learners to access the full range of public education programs and services and supports, including special education and appropriate school discipline…
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