access to computers to complete assignments which is often unavailable to them outside the classroom. They may also need additional remedial supports, http://www.youthmattersphilly.org/instructions http://www.youthmattersphilly.org/instructions Voices of Youth Count: Missed Educational…

https://www.elc-pa.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ELC-Analysis- Inequities-in-PA-Charter-Schools-Segregation-by-Disability.pdf. 2 than making accommodations and providing the required services and supports.4 Students of color are also counseled out of charters through the overuse of suspensions5 plus codes of…

referral. COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS BULLETIN SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO: The Appropriate Regional Office of Developmental Programs PROCEDURE: Effective immediately, a County MH/MR program must make a referral to…

…the fig leaf of helping children with disabilities to introduce vouchers, we expect it to be substantially similar to HB 1717. http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2017/03/jeb_bush_foundation_staffers_trump_education_department.html http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2017/03/jeb_bush_foundation_staffers_trump_education_department.html http://www.excelined.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Education-Savings-Account-Act-Students-w-Disabilities-Model-Legislation-12.20141.pdf http://www.excelined.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Education-Savings-Account-Act-Students-w-Disabilities-Model-Legislation-12.20141.pdf http://www.excelined.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Education-Savings-Account-Act-Students-w-Disabilities-Model-Legislation-12.20141.pdf 2 received a voucher…

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…charter schools.  Support a long-term, student-driven, and equitable funding formula that provides adequate resources for every student to be able to meet academic standards. http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/findyourlegislator/ https://www.facebook.com/EdVotersPA?ref=br_tf mailto:[email protected] http://www.educationvoterspa.org/ http://www.fairfundingpa.org/…

…Florida Levin College of Law Research Paper No. 15-20. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2577333 6 Teske Testimony, at pages 1-2 footnote 4. http://ssrn.com/abstract=2577333 3 Second we know that often schools and…

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legal protections and entitlements of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.8 This includes the right to a “Free Appropriate Public 1 http://www.elc-pa.org/ http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/index.html http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/index.html http://www.justice.gov/crt/complaint/%23three Education” (FAPE); the right to…

23 Justice Quarterly 462, 473-477 (2006). https://www.aclupa.org/files/5714/2436/0535/2-16-2015_FINAL_64204_ACLU_ONLINE.pdf https://www.aclupa.org/files/5714/2436/0535/2-16-2015_FINAL_64204_ACLU_ONLINE.pdf https://www.aclupa.org/files/5714/2436/0535/2-16-2015_FINAL_64204_ACLU_ONLINE.pdf%22%EF%B7%9FHYPERLINK%20%22https:/www.aclupa.org/files/5714/2436/0535/2-16-2015_FINAL_64204_ACLU_ONLINE.pdf https://www.aclupa.org/files/5714/2436/0535/2-16-2015_FINAL_64204_ACLU_ONLINE.pdf https://www.aclupa.org/files/5714/2436/0535/2-16-2015_FINAL_64204_ACLU_ONLINE.pdf 2 should be limited to criminal offenses that impact school safety. Unfortunately, this is not currently the reality in…

See, Inequities in Pennsylvania’s Charter Sector: Segregation by Disability, 2017, https://www.elc-pa.org/wp- content/uploads/2017/02/ELC-Analysis-Inequities-in-PA-Charter-Schools-Segregation-by-Disability.pdf 5 See, e.g., Demand Letter to Franklin Towne Charter High School, 2018, https://www.elc-pa.org/wp- content/uploads/2018/07/2018-06-26-ltr-to-FTCHS.pdf https://www.elc-pa.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ELC-Analysis-Inequities-in-PA-Charter-Schools-Segregation-by-Disability.pdf https://www.elc-pa.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ELC-Analysis-Inequities-in-PA-Charter-Schools-Segregation-by-Disability.pdf https://www.elc-pa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/2018-06-26-ltr-to-FTCHS.pdf https://www.elc-pa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/2018-06-26-ltr-to-FTCHS.pdf…

education so that it cannot be treated just as any other service.” mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] http://www.pacourts.us/assets/opinions/Commonwealth/out/587MD14_5-7-18.pdf?cb=1 http://www.pacourts.us/assets/opinions/Commonwealth/out/587MD14_5-7-18.pdf?cb=1 Second, Senator Scarnati continues to assert that the entire case is moot, arguing that…

…families, and schools. See Maura McInerney, Education Law Center, Effective Approaches to Increasing Attendance: Testimony Before Senate Education Committee (June 9, 2015), available at http://www.elc-pa.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/ELC-Testimony-For- Legislative-Hearing-on-Truancy-June-9-2015.pdf. http://www.elc-pa.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/ELC_AltEdPA_FullReport_03_2010.pdf http://www.elc-pa.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/ELC-Testimony-For-Legislative-Hearing-on-Truancy-June-9-2015.pdf http://www.elc-pa.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/ELC-Testimony-For-Legislative-Hearing-on-Truancy-June-9-2015.pdf 3…

…been sued in Court. If you wish to defend against the claims set forth in the following pages, you must take action within twenty (20) days after this Complaint and…

Civil Procedure 1028 …………………………………………………….. 8 Other Authorities Augenblick, Palaich and Associates, Inc., Costing Out the Resources Needed to Meet Pennsylvania’s Public Education Goals, Revised (December 2007), available at http://www.stateboard.education.pa.gov/Reports/Costing- Out/Pages/default.aspx…