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Moreand equitably distributed. Adam Schott is director of policy research at Research for Action.aschott@researchforaction.org David Lapp is a staff attorney at the Education Law Center. [email protected] Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20150723_Before_reform__fund_properly.html#GQVG7H9ARMe1gliS.99…
Moreroll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=106&session=2&vote=00136 14 http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/ roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=2& 15 http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/ roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00350 16 155 Cong. Rec. S10,669 (daily ed. Oct. 22, 2009). 17 155 Cong. Rec. S7673-74 (daily ed. July 20, 2009). 18https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jeff-sessions-says-he-handled-these-civil-rights-cases-he-barely- touched-them/2017/01/03/4ddfffa6-d0fa-11e6-a783-cd3fa950f2fd_story.html?utm_term=.f09e50846bba 19…
MorePhiladelphia PA 19103 (215) 569-5500 (215) 569-5555 (fax) lewis@blankrome.com slee@blankrome.com Counsel for Executive Respondents Date: August 3, 2018 Received 8/3/2018 6:58:44 PM Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania mailto:lewis@blankrome.com mailto:slee@blankrome.com i TABLE…
More(Available at http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=514&objID=509059&mode=2). http://www.researchforaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/RFA-PACER-SPP-Brief-March-2015-Final.pdf https://www.ed.psu.edu/news/2015-jan-march-news/accountability-measure http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/03/12/in-23-states-richer-school-districts-get-more-local-funding-than-poorer-districts/ http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=514&objID=509059&mode=2 If the sponsors of SB 6 are serious about improving outcomes for students in these schools, they should pass legislation that would ensure…
Moreschool discipline. Under No Child Left Behind, schools faced harsh consequences if students failed to achieve on high-stakes testing. This focus on standardized test scores incentivized schools to push out…
More11431 et seq. 2 42 U.S.C. § 11434a(2), (6); Pa. Department of Education, Basic Education Circular: Education for Homeless Youth (Date of Review September 1, 2011), available at http://www.education.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/us_codes/7505/education_for_homeless_youth/8 06365….
Morebeing 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…
Morecase should be subject to strict scrutiny. The issue in Wilkinsburg was whether, under the particular circumstances faced by the school board, the Public School Code prohibited the subcontracting of…
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Morepossible after receiving appropriate notice of the 1 A copy of the State Plan can be accessed at http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/homeless_children’s_initiative_projects/749 1/overview/508546 2 This BEC is available at http://www.education.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/basic_education_circulars/7497 http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/homeless_children’s_initiative_projects/7491/overview/508546 http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/homeless_children’s_initiative_projects/7491/overview/508546 http://www.education.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/basic_education_circulars/7497…
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…
Morethe Parent’s choice to not enroll until acceptable services were in place, but that choice comes with consequences. Even if the facts of this case were completely analogous to the…
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More1 (2017) https://www.nlchp.org/documents/Homeless- Students-Count. 10 Anna Shaw-Amoah and David Lapp, Research for Action, Students Experiencing Homelessness In Pennsylvania: Underidentification and Inequitable Enrollment, 1 (Dec. 2018), https://8rri53pm0cs22jk3vvqna1ub-wpengine.netdna- ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/RFA-Students-Experiencing-Homelessness- PACER-Brief-Dec.-2018-v2.pdf. 11 Id….
Morelimiting the criteria for consideration. Also requiring consideration of the legislative intent, 24 P.S. § 17-1702-A, to expand options “within the public school system”). http://www.elc-pa.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/ELC_Testimony_Charters_LegislativeIntent_12_11_14.pdf http://www.elc-pa.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/ELC_Testimony_Charters_LegislativeIntent_12_11_14.pdf http://www.elc-pa.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/ELC_Testimony_Charters_LegislativeIntent_12_11_14.pdf Court. The neighboring…
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