older immigrant students with limited English proficiency to an inferior, privately operated alternative school instead of enrolling them in McCaskey, the district’s main high school. The federal case, Issa v….
Morethe statutory scheme for funding K-12 education in Pennsylvania violates the state Constitution. Petitioners are six school districts, the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools, several parents of school-…
More…prior school – Access to magnet school, summer school, career and technical education, advanced placement, online learning, and charter school programs, if such programs are available at the State or…
More…Ms. – was frustrated and confused by the school’s response. Ms. – scrambled to secure continued schooling_fQ~and luckily was able to ensure she remained at her old school, KIPP Charter….
More…disciplinary purposes is either: (1) an exclusion from school for ten (10) or more school days in a row or (2) a “pattern” of excluding you from school. In Pennsylvania,…
More…stability beginning in pre-school. Feeder Schools: The right to school stability applies to the designated “receiving” school at the next grade level, even if the school is in a different…
More…disciplinary purposes is either: (1) an exclusion from school for ten (10) or more school days in a row or (2) a “pattern” of excluding you from school. In Pennsylvania,…
MoreDec. 9, 2014 – By Dan Hardy, Philadelphia Public School Notebook – In the wake of the catastrophic Columbine school shooting in 1999, many school district leaders, politicians, and police…
Moreunexcused reasons. Whether or not a student will get in trouble for walking out will vary based on the school district and the school. Some schools and districts, including the…
Moreschools into other charter schools. What’s left are 25 schools from 17 different school districts that geographically span the entire state. The legislation is unclear about where this new “Achievement…
Moreof schoolchildren, the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools and the Pennsylvania state conference of the NAACP. Co-counsels Michael Churchill from the Public Interest Law Center and Cheryl Kleiman…
Morecurrent members—like some Universal charter schools—will not make the cut. (Because of changes to state assessments last school year, the education department last issued SPP scores in the 2013-2014 school…
More(finding that schools with higher rates of school exclusion had less satisfactory ratings of school climate). 3 suspended suffer when their classmates are removed from the learning environment.11 The study…
More…alleged abuser and, when presented with the risk of this interaction, many students avoid school altogether. While schools generally do not have jurisdiction to discipline students for out-of-school behavior, schools…
Moreabandoning the “zero tolerance” policies that proliferated in the wake of the deadly mass school shooting at Columbine in 1999. At first intended to keep weapons out of schools, the…
Morethe School District of Lancaster, the Greater Johnstown School District, the Wilkes-Barre Area School District and the Shenandoah Valley School District. The seven parent plaintiffs are filing on behalf of…
Moreof the nurse shortage has been an increase during the 2012-13 school year in non-medical school personnel administering medications and treatments to students on a regular basis. A current school…
MoreRose Tree is in G.S.’s best interest. Rose Tree hosts the school where G.S. was enrolled when he became homeless; the school where G.S. was last enrolled; the school where…
Moreof Minority Tolling is a Critical Protection for Children Who Are Subject to Discriminatory Harassment in School …………………………………………………………………. 5 1. The pervasiveness and negative impact of school-based discrimination demonstrates the…
MoreSpecial Education Funding by PA School District School District County 2008/09 Special Ed Expenditure 2016/17 Special Ed Expenditure Change in Special Ed Expenditure Expenditure Growth % Change in State Special…
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