Ways to Give

…benefit your financial plans, while making an important impact for ELC-PA. Establish a Charitable Gift Annuity or a Charitable Trust: Life income gifts help safeguard education justice, while offering income…

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Contact

ELC’s Helpline ELC provides information, referrals, legal advice, and advocacy to families, youth, caseworkers, attorneys, judges, community members, etc. statewide through its Helpline. We provide this service free of charge….

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AEDY Agreement – 3 25 2019

relevant evidence, as well as possible outcomes of an investigation; timely procedures for responding to the person making the complaint; information about potential means of responding to the complaint; reasonable…

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Zero Tolerance for Zero Tolerance

December 7, 2015 – The Philadelphia Citizen (Online) – BY ROXANNE PATEL SHEPELAVY Even before the video emerged this fall of a South Carolina high school girl being thrown to…

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18-1-25 Bd of Ed in Support of POs

Kuren v. Luzerne County, 146 A.3d 715 (Pa. 2016) …………………………………………11 Pennsylvania State Assn. of Jury Comrs. v. Com., 78 A.3d 1020 (Pa. 2013) ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..10 Shore v. Pennsylvania Dept. of Corrections,…

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ELC Statement on the Final Passage of the 16-17 State Budget Bill

…children experiencing homelessness. www.elc-pa.org | www.facebook.com/educationlawcenter | www.twitter.com/edlawcenterpa PHILADELPHIA: 1315 Walnut Street, 4th Floor | Philadelphia, PA 19107 | 215-238-6970 PITTSBURGH: 429 Fourth Avenue Suite, 702 | Pittsburgh, PA 15219…

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McKeesport.Settlement.Final

card statement, or similar evidence of payment. (b) Managing and distributing individual compensatory education service hours. Upon written request to access compensatory education services communicated to the Third Party Administrator,…

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PAFundingSuit_Executive_Summary

by adopting an irrational means of financing public education that drastically underfunds school districts across the Commonwealth and ignores the state’s own funding targets. According to the complaint, the Commonwealth…

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Your Rights Safe in School 8.2017

hand deliver this letter.  File a complaint using the complaint procedures outlined in your district’s policy.  Write a letter to your school board or speak at a board…

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18-08-03 Scarnati Response

119-20. There are exceptions to the mootness doctrine, which may come into play if “(1) the conduct complained of is capable of repetition yet evading review, or (2) -4- involves…

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Education Law Center Statement on Passage of HB 1522

…children with disabilities, English language learners, and children experiencing homelessness. www.elc-pa.org | www.facebook.com/educationlawcenter | www.twitter.com/edlawcenterpa PHILADELPHIA: 1315 Walnut Street, 4th Floor | Philadelphia, PA 19107 | 215-238-6970 PITTSBURGH: 429 Fourth…

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