The wheels on the bus are late

its survey to monitor transportation services to any school that provides instruction to any district special-ed student. Meanwhile, the state has concluded that special-ed students who miss instruction or therapies…

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School to Prison Pipeline for Children with Disabilities

Civil Rights Project Report, 2015 https://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/resources/projects/center-for-civil-rights-remedies/school- to-prison-folder/federal-reports/are-we-closing-the-school-discipline- gap/AreWeClosingTheSchoolDisciplineGap_FINAL221.pdf https://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/resources/projects/center-for-civil-rights-remedies/school-to-prison-folder/federal-reports/are-we-closing-the-school-discipline-gap/AreWeClosingTheSchoolDisciplineGap_FINAL221.pdf Why?  Policies and practices that push schoolchildren, especially our most at- risk children, out of classrooms and into the criminal…

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18-08-03 Wolf Answer to Mootness Application

education in Pennsylvania violates the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The Petitioners are six school districts, the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools, several parents of school-age children,…

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policy-statement-ece-expulsions-suspensions

https://www.pbis.org/pbis-network https://www.pbis.org/pbis-network http://www.pbis.org/ http://www.pbis.org/ http://www.pbis.org/ http://gucchd.georgetown.edu/products/78366.html file:///C:%5CUsers%5CBenjamin.Kavanagh%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CMicrosoft%5CWindows%5CTemporary%20Internet%20Files%5CContent.Outlook%5CI63EVOVC%5CRoadmap%20to%20State-wide%20Implementation%20of%20the%20Pyramid%20Modelhttp:%5Cchallengingbehavior.fmhi.usf.edu%5Cdo%5Cresources%5Cdocuments%5Croadmap_6.pdf%20State%20Planning%20Resources:%20Center%20on%20the%20Social%20and%20Emotional%20Foundations%20for%20Early%20Learning%20%20%20%20http:%5Ccsefel.vanderbilt.edu%5Cresources%5Cstate_planning.html file:///C:%5CUsers%5CBenjamin.Kavanagh%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CMicrosoft%5CWindows%5CTemporary%20Internet%20Files%5CContent.Outlook%5CI63EVOVC%5CRoadmap%20to%20State-wide%20Implementation%20of%20the%20Pyramid%20Modelhttp:%5Cchallengingbehavior.fmhi.usf.edu%5Cdo%5Cresources%5Cdocuments%5Croadmap_6.pdf%20State%20Planning%20Resources:%20Center%20on%20the%20Social%20and%20Emotional%20Foundations%20for%20Early%20Learning%20%20%20%20http:%5Ccsefel.vanderbilt.edu%5Cresources%5Cstate_planning.html file:///C:%5CUsers%5CBenjamin.Kavanagh%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CMicrosoft%5CWindows%5CTemporary%20Internet%20Files%5CContent.Outlook%5CI63EVOVC%5CRoadmap%20to%20State-wide%20Implementation%20of%20the%20Pyramid%20Modelhttp:%5Cchallengingbehavior.fmhi.usf.edu%5Cdo%5Cresources%5Cdocuments%5Croadmap_6.pdf%20State%20Planning%20Resources:%20Center%20on%20the%20Social%20and%20Emotional%20Foundations%20for%20Early%20Learning%20%20%20%20http:%5Ccsefel.vanderbilt.edu%5Cresources%5Cstate_planning.html file:///C:%5CUsers%5CBenjamin.Kavanagh%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CMicrosoft%5CWindows%5CTemporary%20Internet%20Files%5CContent.Outlook%5CI63EVOVC%5CRoadmap%20to%20State-wide%20Implementation%20of%20the%20Pyramid%20Modelhttp:%5Cchallengingbehavior.fmhi.usf.edu%5Cdo%5Cresources%5Cdocuments%5Croadmap_6.pdf%20State%20Planning%20Resources:%20Center%20on%20the%20Social%20and%20Emotional%20Foundations%20for%20Early%20Learning%20%20%20%20http:%5Ccsefel.vanderbilt.edu%5Cresources%5Cstate_planning.html file:///C:%5CUsers%5CBenjamin.Kavanagh%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CMicrosoft%5CWindows%5CTemporary%20Internet%20Files%5CContent.Outlook%5CI63EVOVC%5CRoadmap%20to%20State-wide%20Implementation%20of%20the%20Pyramid%20Modelhttp:%5Cchallengingbehavior.fmhi.usf.edu%5Cdo%5Cresources%5Cdocuments%5Croadmap_6.pdf%20State%20Planning%20Resources:%20Center%20on%20the%20Social%20and%20Emotional%20Foundations%20for%20Early%20Learning%20%20%20%20http:%5Ccsefel.vanderbilt.edu%5Cresources%5Cstate_planning.html file:///C:%5CUsers%5CBenjamin.Kavanagh%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CMicrosoft%5CWindows%5CTemporary%20Internet%20Files%5CContent.Outlook%5CI63EVOVC%5CRoadmap%20to%20State-wide%20Implementation%20of%20the%20Pyramid%20Modelhttp:%5Cchallengingbehavior.fmhi.usf.edu%5Cdo%5Cresources%5Cdocuments%5Croadmap_6.pdf%20State%20Planning%20Resources:%20Center%20on%20the%20Social%20and%20Emotional%20Foundations%20for%20Early%20Learning%20%20%20%20http:%5Ccsefel.vanderbilt.edu%5Cresources%5Cstate_planning.html • State Work and Resources: Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Intervention http://challengingbehavior.fmhi.usf.edu/communities/TACSEIstates.htm • Technical Assistance Center on…

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Press release_FINAL

legal objections is a day in which hundreds of thousands of students across the Commonwealth remain in grossly underfunded schools. The legislative leaders should be ashamed that they are denying…

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WmPenn_v_PDE_AnswerExecutiveBranchPO

Petitioner Petitioner William Penn School District Panther Valley School District The School District of Lancaster Greater Johnstown School District Wilkes-Barre Area School District Shenandoah Valley School District Pennsylvania Association of…

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Glen Mills Class Action Press Release

in the shadows without any oversight or monitoring to ensure the educational rights of students. PDE is responsible for the administering laws relating to public schools, providing general supervision, and…

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2019.05.22-Brief-of-Amici-Curiae-23-Organizations

2017 National School Climate Survey (2018), https://www.glsen.org/ sites/default/files/GLSEN-2017-National-School-Climate-Survey-NSCS- Full-Report.pdf ……………………………………………………………………………. 10, 13 GLSEN, School Climate in Pennsylvania (2019), https://www.glsen.org/sites/ default/files/Pennsylvania%20State%20Snapshot%20-%202017%20 NSCS_0.pdf ……………………………………………………………………………………. 5, 9 Angela Irvine & Aisha Canfield, Reflections…

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

and 22 Pa Code §51.4 (Private Academic License requirements). 8 See 22 Pa Code § 4.12 (Academic standards applicable to public education providers.) http://www.ocfcpacourts.us/assets/upload/Resources/Documents/2013%20State%20RT%20report%20on%20Educational%20Success%20and%20Truancy%20Prevention(9).pdf http://www.ocfcpacourts.us/assets/upload/Resources/Documents/2013%20State%20RT%20report%20on%20Educational%20Success%20and%20Truancy%20Prevention(9).pdf http://www.edna.ed.state.pa.us/Screens/wfSearchEntityResults.aspx?AUN=&SchoolBranch=&CurrentName=&City=&HistoricalName=&IU=-1&CID=-1&CategoryIDs=18%2c&StatusIDs=1%2c2%2c http://www.edna.ed.state.pa.us/Screens/wfSearchEntityResults.aspx?AUN=&SchoolBranch=&CurrentName=&City=&HistoricalName=&IU=-1&CID=-1&CategoryIDs=18%2c&StatusIDs=1%2c2%2c 4 youth are…

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2018-06-26-ltr-to-FTCHS

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….

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The Comeback of Charters

current 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…

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McKeesport FINAL COMPLAINT 10 14

classroom, separate and apart from the regular McKeesport public schools and classrooms. 24. The Auberle-student classroom to which C.K. is assigned serves students of varying grade levels in the same…

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2018 National School Walkout Fact Sheet

Gun control that does not result in targeted policing of black and brown bodies. https://www.womensmarch.com/enough-toolkit https://www.womensmarch.com/enough-toolkit https://www.actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/enough-national-school-walkout https://townhallproject.com/ https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/ban-military-style-assault-2?source=c.em&r_by=236359 https://www.facebook.com/pg/marchforourlives/events/?ref=page_internal http://nationalschoolwalkout.us/ https://www.facebook.com/215studentunion/posts/10156159559271740 NATIONAL SCHOOL WALKOUT | 2018 Education Law Center…

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Concerns raised about law replacing No Child Left Behind

and no predictability about what available resources will look like year to year in the future, it’s pretty hard to engage in serious planning,” Mr. Cowell said.   http://www.post-gazette.com/news/education/2016/01/10/Education-advocates-worry-about-lack-of-federal-oversight-for-schools/stories/201601060194  …

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ELC Education Justice Report 2017 – Web

org/Standard/PACore. See also Brandt, E. (2015). Area Schools Bracing for Lower PSSA Scores. http://www. pottsmerc.com/general-news/20150810/area-schools-bracing-for-lower-pssa-scores 84 Rivera, P. (2015). https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2193884-pssa-ed-sec-e-mail.html 85 Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators and the Pennsylvania Association…

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ELC-memo-to-DOJ-8-31-2015

for all grades. http://www.post-gazette.com/news/education/2015/07/05/System-breakdown-leaves-student-trapped-in-alternative-program/stories/201506300258?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=editors-picks-news&utm_campaign=Headlines-Newsletter 3 likely adverse disparate impact on students of color and students with disabilities. We would consider it a significant missed opportunity if the result of DOJ’s…

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