Federal Education Law Delivers Vital Protections for Foster Youth
…serving them will need to take a hard look at how they are performing, and design and implement joint strategies to help them stay in school and engaged in learning….
More…serving them will need to take a hard look at how they are performing, and design and implement joint strategies to help them stay in school and engaged in learning….
More…what the other exclusionary discipline numbers (i.e. suspensions and expulsions) look like in these districts. Of course, if the decline in AEDY enrollment is attributable to using new, positive, prevention…
More…Do even ‘upward’ moves predict dropout risk?, 53 Social Science Research (Sep. 2015), 218-30, available at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X15000940. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X15000940 7 Currently, in the School District of Philadelphia, many unaccompanied homeless youth…
More…and jail that are proven not to reduce truancy.” Research studies consistently show that imposing such punishments on parents is completely ineffectual in solving truancy. Data affirms that fines and…
More…Violence 5 (September 2015), https://www.ojjdp.gov/pubs/248547.pdf?ed2f26df2d9c416fbddddd2330a778c6=nnxrpdoznnzubdzrr&utm_source=y outh.gov&utm_medium=federal-links&utm_campaign=reports-and-resources. We also urge you to reject legislation, currently billed as HB 357, that would constrain authorizers’ ability to hold charter schools accountable for equitably,…
More…https://www.jjeducationblueprint.org. http://fostercareandeducation.org/ https://www.jjeducationblueprint.org/ In response to data demonstrating significant disproportionality based on race and disability and research establishing its substantial deleterious impact on students, the U.S. Departments of Education and…
More…inequities. The report cites Pennsylvania Department of Education data, as well as other recent research, to conclude that the Commonwealth must spend more than $3 billion a year to allow…
More…incarceration. But Williams’ proposed “hammer” strategy of threatening criminal charges is simply the wrong approach. It ignores the considerable research and evidence that criminalizing truancy is ineffective and counterproductive. Truancy…
More…improvement to the bill would be to exempt from ASD jurisdiction all intervention schools located in districts already under any form of state operation. http://www.researchforaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/RFA-Revisiting-Cyber-Charter-Performance-November-2014.pdf There are examples of these…
More…together advocates, researchers, policy makers and philanthropists to deepen participants’ understanding of current research findings and trends and highlight current and potential policies and practices that can significantly improve outcomes…
More…well-established research and best practices to promote regressive school policies. The Education Law Center works with students and parents to battle high rates of suspensions alongside leaders in civil rights,…
MoreAccording to the research findings, students who have access to a quality school library program have an academic advantage over students who did not have such access. This 2012 report,…
More…in Foster Care, https://bit.ly/2CpN0Nu (last visited Jan. 16, 2019) ………………………………………………………………………. 10 Rebecca Klein, Schools See Major Uptick in Racial Harassment, New Data Suggests, Huffington Post (Feb. 23, 2018), https://bit.ly/2FC6Jg3 …………
More…11 J. of Applied Security Research 422 (2015). 7 Abigail Hankin, et. al., Impacts of Metal Detector Use in Schools: Insights from 15 Years of Research, 81 J. of School…
More…undermines Rose Tree’s argument that a doubled-up arrangement can transform into a fixed, adequate, and regular nighttime residence if it persists long enough. Third, Rose Tree fails to cite any…
More…long enough. Third, Rose Tree fails to cite any authority other than general provisions of the Act and the dictionary for its interpretation. This is unsurprising—to date, no court has…
More…establish such a system. See 22 Pa. Code § 14.162. Pursuant to this authority, Pennsylvania created ODR both to adjudicate IDEA claims, and to provide resources for parents and educational…
More…the program; (3) the nature and importance of the program, activity, or service provided by the program to people’s lives; and (4) the resources available to the grantee/recipient and costs.”…
More…she’s always done: find freebies on the internet, borrow from the English or history departments, raise private donations, or pay from her own pocket. “I don’t mind spending the money…
More…to sufficient resources to obtain an adequate education. -5- See id. at ¶¶ 304 & 306; see also id. at ¶ 305 (noting that, under the Education Clause, Petitioners were…
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