ELC_Guide_FairnessinDiscipline_Sept09

…student newspaper that would not be seen as school-sponsored speech). 22 e. Speech that constitutes a “true threat” does not receive First Amendment protection Speech that constitutes a “true threat”…

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2016-10-19-issa-third-circuit-brief-of-appellee

…public high school, similar to hundreds of public high schools around the country. JA 66 (Complaint); 116 (Answer). Buehrle is an “Alternative Education for Disruptive Youth” (AEDY) school where “disruptive…

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

…Risk Behavior, 30 J. Adolescent Health 364 (2002), https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X (01)00415-3/abstract ……………………………………………………………………………. 9 Steinar Brandslet, All Forms Of Sexual Harassment Can Cause Psychological Harm, Gemini (Sept. 11, 2017), https://geminiresearchnews.com/2017/11/ forms-sexual-harassment-can-cause-psychological-harm…………………………. 6…

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18-09-19 Scarnati Answer and New Matter

…approach runs contrary to Pennsylvania Rule of Civil Procedure 1019(a), which provides that “[t]he material facts on which a cause of action or defense is based shall be stated in…

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ELC_Fact Sheet_Ed_DecisionMakers_4_15_14

…living facilities, residential treatment facilities, and hospitals—often have no adult in their lives to serve in this role. This can be true of youth in the delinquency system as well….

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Fair Funding Lawsuit Goes to Trial Nov. 12, 2021

…where they live. Our leaders are severely shortchanging students in low-wealth school districts across the state, including where most of our Black and Brown students live. It’s wrong, it’s unconstitutional…

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McKeesport.Settlement.Final

…of the class action settlement, is hereby GRANTED. The Court makes the following findings of fact and conclusions of law under Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure 1702, 1708, and 1709…

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Historic Victory in Fight for Fair Funding!

On Feb. 7, 2023, Commonwealth Court Judge Renée Cohn Jubelirer issued a historic ruling in the Pennsylvania school funding case, declaring the PA school funding system unconstitutional.  “All witnesses agree that every child…

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Historic Victory in the Fight for Fair Funding!

On Feb. 7, Commonwealth Court Judge Renée Cohn Jubelirer issued her ruling in the Pennsylvania school funding case. The Education Law Center-PA and the Public Interest Law Center, who represent petitioners in the…

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School-funding suit headed for highest Pa. court

…“adopted an irrational school funding system that does not deliver the essential resources students need and discriminates against children based on where they live and the wealth of their communities.”…

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NC_Easton_Complaint

…family lives is a 24 by 7 foot trailer truck which is not winterized and was not intended for year-round use. The camper, which is nine years old, often loses…

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ELC Kicks Off New School Funding Campaign

Oct. 6, 2014 – The Education Law Center, along with more than 40 other organizations, today launched a new campaign for fair education funding for all of Pennsylvania’s K-12 public…

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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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18-08-03 Wolf Answer to Mootness Application

…Protection Clause. 4 After hearing argument, this Court overruled, without prejudice, the preliminary objections regarding the nature of the constitutional rights at issue and the level of scrutiny to be…

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