Commonwealth Court dismisses school-funding lawsuit

…Pennsylvania lawmakers is working to propose a fair-funding formula that would likely provide poorer school districts with a higher percentage of state aid and reduce funding to wealthier districts. http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20150422_Commonwealth_Court_dismisses_school-funding_lawsuit.html#oLJoAGAH8KUEuRi3.99…

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ELC Testimony Before City Council Re Residential Placements May 17, 2018

…philadelphia-9-2017.pdf. See also Youth at Risk of Homelessness: Identifying Key Predictive Factors Among Youth Aging Out of Foster Care in Washington State available at https://www.dshs.wa.gov/sites/default/files/SESA/rda/documents/research-7-106.pdf http://policylab.chop.edu/sites/default/files/pdf/publications/PolicyLab_Report_Supporting_Students_Involved_with_Child_Welfare_June_2014.pdf http://policylab.chop.edu/sites/default/files/pdf/publications/PolicyLab_Report_Supporting_Students_Involved_with_Child_Welfare_June_2014.pdf http://fostercareandeducation.org/DesktopModules/Bring2mind/DMX/Download.aspx?portalid=0&EntryId=2100&Command=Core_Download http://fostercareandeducation.org/DesktopModules/Bring2mind/DMX/Download.aspx?portalid=0&EntryId=2100&Command=Core_Download http://www.southerneducation.org/getattachment/cf39e156-5992-4050-bd03-fb34cc5bf7e3/Just-Learning.aspx…

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Trauma Informed in Schools Classrooms FINAL December2014 (2)

…& Wong, M. (2008). Creating trauma-informed systems: Child welfare, education, first responders, health care, juvenile justice. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 39(4), 396-404. http://www.nctsnet.org/sites/default/files/assets/pdfs/tfcbt_general.pdf http://www.nrepp.samhsa.gov/viewintervention.aspx?id=135 http://www.justice.gov/defendingchildhood/cev-rpt-full.pdf http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=PDF&sessYr=2011&sessInd=0&billBody=H&billTyp=R&billNbr=0659&pn=3339 http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=PDF&sessYr=2011&sessInd=0&billBody=H&billTyp=R&billNbr=0659&pn=3339 http://www.nctsn.org/sites/default/files/assets/pdfs/Child_Trauma_Toolkit_Final.pdf http://www.nctsn.org/nctsn_assets/pdfs/promising_practices/A_Systems_Integration_Approach.pdf…

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Glen Mills Complaint

…(last visited Apr. 10, 2019). Case 2:19-cv-01541-HB Document 1 Filed 04/11/19 Page 3 of 149 4 educational needs of youth. Glen Mills leadership and staff took all measures to suppress…

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Glen Mills Complaint FINAL

…ignored the medical and 3 THE GLEN MILLS SCHOOLS, http://www.glenmillsschool.org/ (last visited Apr. 10, 2019). 4 educational needs of youth. Glen Mills leadership and staff took all measures to suppress…

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Newsletters

Look Back: Victories Worth Celebrating ELC Newsletter December 2023 – Basic Education Funding Commission; Pennridge Complaint; Testifying on Homelessness; and More ELC Newsletter November 2023 – Funding Commission, Battling Book…

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budget press release 2019

…of inadequate funding for students with disabilities. The $160 million proposed increase in basic education funding through the state’s funding formula, a modest 2.6%, is the largest increase since 2016….

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CFEF summary_public_042315

…without a basic education funding formula to distribute adequate resources both fairly and predictably. • Pennsylvania has the widest funding gap between wealthy and poor school districts of any state…

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ELC_SchoolFunding_LawPolicy_11_6_13

…state’s academic standards. Pennsylvania adopted a funding formula in 2008 with a goal of phasing in that additional funding and closing that adequacy gap. Both of those tenets, however, have…

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PA budget press release 6-22-18

…funding formula in 2016. But only the new funding above 2015 levels is distributed using the formula, and so only a small fraction of the $6.1 billion basic education funding…

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18-08-14 Answer to Scarnati App for Relief

…only a small part of the General Assembly’s system of funding schools. As the undisputed evidence by Petitioners demonstrates, the state funding distributed through the formula (termed Student Based Appropriations…

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School Funding Lawsuit Advances

On May 7, 2018, the Commonwealth Court overruled objections filed by state legislative leaders and moved our school funding lawsuit closer to trial. Read about the Court’s decision…

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ELC Joins New School Funding Campaign

…ahead, the campaign will announce its formal name and launch a website and related media tools to engage and inform Pennsylvanians on this important issue. Organizations in newly formed school…

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