Op-Ed: School funding shouldn’t be ‘accident of geography’
…school year unfolds, and planning for next year’s budget takes shape, we’re facing a stark reality: cut programs that we know work, or raise taxes on residents who are already…
More…school year unfolds, and planning for next year’s budget takes shape, we’re facing a stark reality: cut programs that we know work, or raise taxes on residents who are already…
MoreJoin ELC’s Day of Legislative Action to support Senate Bill 324, “Fostering A Smooth Transition for Graduation” This bill supports highly mobile youth through better graduation planning, smooth transfer of academic credits, and targeted educational…
More…night, they didn’t get it. Audience feedback during the School Reform Commission’s monthly strategy and planning meeting suggested that the Philadelphia education community is far from sold on the advantages…
More…and state law require transition planning for every child beginning at age 14, including requiring school districts to provide every child with a disability with comprehensive services that will help…
More…and state law require transition planning for every child beginning at age 14, including requiring school districts to provide every child with a disability with comprehensive services that will help…
More…entitled to an educational planning process, including meetings and Individualized Education Programs (IEPs), to ensure they receive a free and appropriate public education. The complaint alleges that the School District…
More…compared to their median household income. Lawmakers, though, are only planning to apply the formula to new increases in state aid. In context, this year the state added $200 million…
More…infrastructure issues across the state. Green said City Council is planning a similar hearing and is waiting on the school district to “finish a report on what happened at Edmonds.”…
More…their participation is unfairly denied because the School District has failed in its duty to translate essential planning documents.” “When parents are shut out of the special education process, students…
More…provide planned instruction, rather than solely enrichment activities, and points to Pennsylvania districts that are doing so. The letter also highlights specific strategies and recommended procedures for providing individualized planning…
More…student at George Mason University, who powerfully explained the importance of centering Black girls like herself as student experts in our groundbreaking report We Need Supportive Spaces That Celebrate Us:…
More…and adults in residential care. ELC and Juvenile Law Center issued a joint statement supporting the governor’s action and highlighting the importance of reducing reliance on residential placements and providing a quality education…
More…Township School District. The brief stressed the importance of maintaining critical due process protections in PA school discipline proceedings, especially for Black girls, students with disabilities, and LGBTQ students. This…
More…the defendants here, disputes the seriousness of this issue or the importance of efforts to address it. But that is not the legal question before this Court. That question is…
More…in 2016 that recognized the importance of distributing education aid on the basis of need, the proposed budget distributes barely one-tenth of basic education funding through the formula. Not enough…
More…https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d17/tables/dt17_233.60.asp 13 See id. 14 See Sandy Hook Promise, Start with Hello, https://www.sandyhookpromise.org/prevention_programs. 15 Id. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d17/tables/dt17_233.60.asp https://www.sandyhookpromise.org/prevention_programs https://www.sandyhookpromise.org/prevention_programs Student safety is of the utmost importance, so we urge you to…
More…achieve life-long stability. We have also advanced effective state and national legislative and policy reforms to improve educational outcomes for vulnerable children, including immigrant students. II. Importance of Flores Settlement…
MoreELC Research and Policy Fellow Ian Gavigan’s testimony presented to Philadelphia City Council on the importance of predictable school funding to serve the most at-risk children in the Philadelphia School…
More…Education Committee at their June 9th hearing on truancy. She discussed how punitive responses to truancy can be ineffectual and counterproductive and the importance of school-level interventions to improve attendance….
More…to the state Supreme Court. “This is a question of paramount importance to all Pennsylvanians, and we always knew this would ultimately be decided by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court,” Public…
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