3-15-18 House Education Committee Hearing on School Safety Testimony – ELC Final

media, and increased efforts to limit inappropriate access to guns. Available at http://curry.virginia.edu/uploads/resourceLibrary/Updated_Lists_1-8-13- OFFICIAL_FOR_DISSEMINATION-Connecticut_School_Shooting_Position_Statement_12-19-2012- 2_pm_ET.pdf. mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] http://www.schoolsecurity.org/trends/arming_teachers.html http://www.repgrove.com/Display/SiteFiles/103/OtherDocuments/SelectCommitteeSchoolSafetyFinalReport.pdf.pdf http://www.repgrove.com/Display/SiteFiles/103/OtherDocuments/SelectCommitteeSchoolSafetyFinalReport.pdf.pdf http://jsg.legis.state.pa.us/resources/documents/ftp/publications/2016-10-27%20Final%20REPORT%20for%20WEBSITE%20updated%2011.16.16%20%20WB.pdf http://jsg.legis.state.pa.us/resources/documents/ftp/publications/2016-10-27%20Final%20REPORT%20for%20WEBSITE%20updated%2011.16.16%20%20WB.pdf http://www.publicopiniononline.com/story/news/2016/09/12/teacher-resigns-after-child-finds-her-loaded-gun-school/90280916/ http://www.publicopiniononline.com/story/news/2016/09/12/teacher-resigns-after-child-finds-her-loaded-gun-school/90280916/ http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-teacher-shooting-utah-idUSKBN0H62HL20140911 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/08/us/schools-seeking-to-arm-employees-hit-hurdle-on-insurance.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1& http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/08/us/schools-seeking-to-arm-employees-hit-hurdle-on-insurance.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1& http://curry.virginia.edu/uploads/resourceLibrary/Updated_Lists_1-8-13-OFFICIAL_FOR_DISSEMINATION-Connecticut_School_Shooting_Position_Statement_12-19-2012-2_pm_ET.pdf http://curry.virginia.edu/uploads/resourceLibrary/Updated_Lists_1-8-13-OFFICIAL_FOR_DISSEMINATION-Connecticut_School_Shooting_Position_Statement_12-19-2012-2_pm_ET.pdf http://curry.virginia.edu/uploads/resourceLibrary/Updated_Lists_1-8-13-OFFICIAL_FOR_DISSEMINATION-Connecticut_School_Shooting_Position_Statement_12-19-2012-2_pm_ET.pdf…

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ELC Support Center PCCY Comments to Proposed Criminal Court Rules Re Inability to Pay

being eliminated, Denton Record Chronicle (June 2015) http://www.dentonrc.com/news/state/2015/06/20/criminal-truancy-courts-for-students-being-eliminated http://youthlaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Truancy-Research.pdf. https://www.texasappleseed.org/sites/default/files/TruancyReport_All_FINAL_SinglePages.pdf http://www.publiccounsel.org/tools/assets/files/Counterproductive-and-Wasteful-Los-Angeles-daytime-curfew-report_FINAL.pdf. 4 • Confine a person in parental relation to a child who is habitually truant only as a last…

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Food Enters., Inc., 1998 WL 1184157, at *2 (Mass. Super. Feb. 5, 1998). In Bills, the Superior Court of Massachusetts found that https://1.next.westlaw.com/Link/Document/FullText?findType=L&pubNum=1000546&cite=42USCAS1983&originatingDoc=Ib7e0beab561d11d9bf30d7fdf51b6bd4&refType=LQ&originationContext=document&transitionType=DocumentItem&contextData=(sc.DocLink) EAST150579074.1 8 “[t]here is no sound reason…

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examples of individuals who meet the definition of “homeless children and youth.” 42 U.S.C. § 11434a(2)(B)(i)-(iv). https://www2.ed.gov/programs/homeless/data-comp-04-07.pdf http://www.dedcmdasfaa.org/docs/conferences/2014/presentations/UnaccompaniedHomelessTouthAndHigherEducationAccess.pdf http://www.dedcmdasfaa.org/docs/conferences/2014/presentations/UnaccompaniedHomelessTouthAndHigherEducationAccess.pdf 5 Having lost touch with their families and their source of…

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Roy Austin Sept Follow Up Letter SROs September 2016 FINAL for distribution fnl

2 http://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/school-discipline/files/dcl-summary-for-stakeholders.pdf 3 U.S. Department of Education Press Release, September 8, 2016 available at http://www.ed.gov/news/press- releases/obama-administration-releases-resources-schools-colleges-ensure-appropriate-use-school-resource- officers-and-campus-police 2 The field needs a more forceful message. For a number of reasons,…

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ELC Public Testimony PPS 02-20-2017

the parents, students and community members with whom we work, thank you for the opportunity to provide testimony tonight. The Education Law Center is a non-profit, legal advocacy organization dedicated…

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1 (Dec. 8, 2014), https://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/correctional-education/cr-letter.pdf. ] [4: The Council of State Governments Justice Center, Locked Out: Improving Educational and Vocational Outcomes for Incarcerated Youth, 4 (2015), https://csgjusticecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/LOCKED_OUT_Improving_Educational_and_Vocational_Outcomes_for_Incarcerated_Youth.pdf. ] [5: Id….

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