ELC joined more than a dozen other civil rights organizations in releasing a new report highlighting the ways the Trump Administration is aggressively and intentionally limiting the civil rights protections…
MoreMay 15, 2013 – New policy guidance issued last week by the Pennsylvania Office of Child Development and Early Learning improves access to early learning opportunities for homeless children under…
More…with billions of dollars of new funding for public education? New Jersey’s Supreme Court did. In 1990, the court ruled that the state had provided inadequate and unequal funding for…
MoreDec. 11, 2014 – The Education Law Center commends the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education on issuing new joint guidance on Correctional Education. The guidance, released this week, not…
MoreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 30, 2018 Contact: Paul Socolar, Education Law Center, 215-906-1250, [email protected] PDE Orders Philadelphia School District to Create New System to Protect Students with Disabilities Experiencing Homelessness…
More…Read our new Report on this event which shares key insights gleaned during the Roundtable and outlines next steps and strategies to promote new research, data-sharing and the development of…
Moreby the new costs associated with rapid charter school expansion. Statewide, charter schools would be permitted to open new buildings, add new grades, and expand their enrollment with almost no…
More100 students, most diagnosed with social-emotional disabilities and now placed in facilities run by Wordsworth. The new program will be run initially by the private education provider Catapult Learning before…
MoreELC praises the Pennsylvania Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL) for release of two new policy announcements that now make clear its commitment to decrease exclusionary discipline and…
MoreAct 1: New Tools to Support Students Experiencing Educational Instability Pennsylvania students who experience “education instability” due to homelessness, involvement in the foster care or juvenile justice systems, or court-ordered…
MoreMay 15, 2013 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New policy guidance issued last week by the Pennsylvania Office of Child Development and Early Learning improves access to early learning…
More…58. Despite the District’s policy, the District increased the Student’s level of homebound instruction to four hours per week, and sometimes instructors stayed longer. As a result, from December 2014…
More…parent or student must exhaust the IDEA’s administrative procedures before brining an ADA civil action. 20 U.S.C. § 1415(l) provides: Rule of Construction Nothing in this chapter shall be construed…
MoreMar. 23, 2016 The Education Law Center’s Executive Director Deborah Gordon Klehr issued the following statement regarding today’s state budget announcement: “We are disappointed that the Commonwealth is proceeding…
More…local tax effort, allocating relatively more funding to districts that are larger, are poorer and have higher property taxes.” According to the study, “30 states, including New York and New…
More…access to a quality public education. Kristina Moon joined the Philadelphia office on Monday, May 9. Kristina comes to us from Prisoners’ Legal Services in New York, where as a…
More…18 iii CONCLUSION ………………………………………………………………………………………….. 20 CERTIFICATE OF WORD COUNT ……………………………………………………………. 21 CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE …………………………………………………………….. 21 iv TABLE OF AUTHORITIES Page(s) CASES Albright v. Keystone Rural Health Ctr., 320 F….
Morethe District’s efforts to develop this new policy with the input of many community stakeholders who have worked towards a common goal of ensuring culturally and linguistically appropriate planned instructional…
More…LLP 1625 Eye Street, NW Washington, DC 20006 Brad M. Elias (pro hac vice) O’Melveny & Myers, LLP 7 Times Square New York, NY 10036 Telephone: (212) 326-2000 Counsel for…
Morein Utica, New York, and Collier County, Florida. The case is Issa v. School District of Lancaster. The students are being represented by Witold J. Walczak and Molly Tack-Hooper of…
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