ELC Bullying OCR Complaint redacted

…to bullying can also be found here: http://webgui.phila.k12.pa.us/offices/a/attendance–truancy/bullying-prevention/bullying- prevention-policy-and-procedures. https://1.next.westlaw.com/Link/Document/FullText?findType=Y&serNum=2012490826&pubNum=506&originatingDoc=I03a7e612f03a11e1b11ea85d0b248d27&refType=RP&fi=co_pp_sp_506_350&originationContext=document&transitionType=DocumentItem&contextData=(sc.History*oc.Search)#co_pp_sp_506_350 https://1.next.westlaw.com/Link/Document/FullText?findType=Y&serNum=2012490826&pubNum=506&originatingDoc=I03a7e612f03a11e1b11ea85d0b248d27&refType=RP&fi=co_pp_sp_506_350&originationContext=document&transitionType=DocumentItem&contextData=(sc.History*oc.Search)#co_pp_sp_506_350 https://1.next.westlaw.com/Link/Document/FullText?findType=Y&serNum=1995207171&pubNum=506&originatingDoc=I03a7e612f03a11e1b11ea85d0b248d27&refType=RP&fi=co_pp_sp_506_492&originationContext=document&transitionType=DocumentItem&contextData=(sc.History*oc.Search)#co_pp_sp_506_492 http://webgui.phila.k12.pa.us/offices/a/attendance–truancy/bullying-prevention/bullying-prevention-policy-and-procedures http://webgui.phila.k12.pa.us/offices/a/attendance–truancy/bullying-prevention/bullying-prevention-policy-and-procedures 28 to adhere to the District’s own anti-bullying Procedures only made matters worse—by subjecting STUDENT to…

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…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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Governor Brief

…education in Pennsylvania violates the state Constitution. The Petitioners are six school districts, the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools, several parents of school-age children, and the Pennsylvania State…

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Opinion: Allow trial on school funding

…up to its constitutional obligations. The plaintiffs come from large urban districts like Philadelphia and struggling rural districts like Panther Valley in Schuylkill and Carbon Counties, demonstrating that chronic underfunding…

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Back-to-School Guide 2022

…work is available from the Advancement Project and ACLU of Pennsylvania. Black and Brown communities, hardest hit by the coronavirus, have also borne the brunt of school disruption, receiving diminished…

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Historic Victory in Fight for Fair Funding!

A LANDMARK DECISION: EDUCATION IS A ‘FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT’ 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…

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…“Petitioner school districts don’t have sufficient funding to hire desperately needed teachers and support staff, repair crumbling facilities, or provide critical educational programming. This problem will not be fixed until…

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ELC Fact Sheet: Education Decision Makers

The Education Law Center and Juvenile Law Center have developed a fact sheet to explain important educational decision maker rules, including Pennsylvania’s Juvenile Court Procedural Rules (Rules 1147 and 147)…

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