Enrollment Know Your Rights 2015

…SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER; VISA/IMMIGRATION DOCUMENTS; REASON FOR CHILD LIVING WITH YOU or COURT ORDER concerning the child’s placement or guardianship.  Discipline can never be a reason to refuse to…

More

Amici Brief: Consortium for Public Education

…7–8 (Jan. 2011), available at http://www.atlanticphilanthropies.org/sites/default/files/uploads/Zero%20Tolerance%20in%20P hiladelphia%20%282%29.pdf; Report, American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, Beyond Zero Tolerance: Discipline and Policing in Pennsylvania Public Schools at 7–8 (Nov. 2013), available at…

More

Charter School Equity Pledge – ELC Jan 2016

…the use of suspension, expulsion, and other exclusionary discipline as a last resort, only for the most serious behaviors, and only after non-exclusionary disciplinary alternatives have been carefully considered, tried…

More

ESSA Vulnerable Students Feb 24 2016FINAL

…of bullying and harassment, • Reduce the overuse of discipline practices that remove students from the classroom, and • Eliminate the use of aversive behavioral interventions that compromise student health…

More

ELC_Oppose_SB383-FullSen-Update

…school discipline. The report discusses best practices to improve school climate and does not suggest, among its 126 pages, that allowing school personnel to carry concealed firearms would accomplish that…

More

SRC Testimony ELL Students 03-2017

…special education documents and school discipline notices. LEP parents of students with disabilities are entitled to meaningful participation in the special education process and are denied this right when special…

More