In May 2023, Education Law Center PA submitted comments in response to the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed rule on sex discrimination in school athletics under Title IX of the…
More…as we would like them to be,” Panther Valley Superintendent Dennis Kergick said. Pennsylvania has academic standards that define what is required by schools for a thorough and efficient public…
More…Easton Di -Vento Act. The District establishes local rules and practices concerning the enrollment, transportation, and education of children within its district, including homeless children. 8. Defendant Carolyn Dumaresq is…
More…providing a “thorough and efficient” education, education advocates argued that is why the court needs to intervene. During a lively hourlong proceeding on Wednesday before the Commonwealth Court, attorneys for…
More…meaningful educational benefit. Meaningful educational benefit is more than a trivial or de minimis educational benefit. 20 U.S.C. §1412; Board of Education v. Rowley, 458 U.S. 176, 73 L.Ed.2d 690,…
More…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…
Moreschools to effectively modify instruction for ELs; and (3) a revised protocol to evaluate the effectiveness of language instruction programs at the building level to ensure that all bilingual programs…
More…middle schools eliminate ‘screening’ as New York City expands integration efforts, https://chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2018/09/20/brooklyn-middle-schools-eliminate-screening-as-new-york-city-expands- integration-efforts/ http://www.elc-pa.org/ 2 low-income families, are learning English or are homeless. This could provide a real equitable opportunity…
MoreIn a ruling March 8 by Commonwealth Court, a judge held that two Pennsylvania parents who were among those who filed the landmark lawsuit in 2014 challenging Pennsylvania’s school funding…
MoreThe June 21, 2022, U.S. Supreme Court decision in Carson v. Makin mandates that Maine use its public school funds to educate children in private religious schools. Never before has…
More…Now is the Time to Reform Truancy Rules Chalkbeat Philadelphia 12/10: Students fight for right to vote on Philadelphia’s school board Philadelphia Eagles 12/9: Eagles look to help level the…
More…Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania filed Monday, upholding a lower court’s ruling regarding the Pittsburgh Public Schools’ yearlong suspension of a 10th-grader for using a pencil to stab a classmate multiple…
More…before it starts NOREP: Notice of Recommended Educational Placement – Parents can disagree with the IEP and/or placement The 10-Day Notice Rule Important Deadline: – Ten-day rule: Prior…
More…lawmakers lauded the Commonwealth Court’s ruling. Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati (R., Jefferson) said the opinion “validates our position that decisions regarding education funding are fully vested in the…
More…needs of the Commonwealth.’ The existing system of public education is therefore neither thorough nor efficient, as measured by the Commonwealth’s own academic standards and costing-out study.” By delegating so…
MoreCourt, ELC filed an amicus brief requesting the Pennsylvania Supreme Court review the Commonwealth Court’s ruling and ensure that children who experience discrimination in school can benefit from the protections…
More…decision, and overruled that earlier precedent, agreeing with advocates that school children and school districts must be able to seek relief from the Courts to protect their rights to a…
More…greater need for funding because their students require extra support,” City Solicitor Sozi Tulante wrote in the brief. “This funding system has left Pennsylvania with the most unequal distribution of…
More…Pa. Code 14.145 (5) (implementing IDEA’s requirements). 78. Exhaustion of this claim is not required because the class-wide relief needed to remedy Defendant’s systemic refusal to admit class members to…
MoreThe Education Law Center (ELC) has filed an amicus brief in Nicole B. v. School District of Philadelphia, et al., a case involving a Philadelphia student who was relentlessly bullied…
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