…100 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…
More…and English language learners? And is it connected to the distinct needs of school districts that are rural, urban, very small, or fast growing? The 2011-12 state budget used two…
More…Valley – the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools (PARSS) and the NAACP Pennsylvania State Conference. “Pennsylvania’s public school children are entitled to have their day in court. The…
More…https://www.nap.edu/ download/23482 ……………………………………………………………………………. 9, 10 Pa. Human Relations Comm’n, Education Discrimination, http://www.phrc.pa.gov/File-A-Complaint/ Types-of-Complaints/Pages/Education.aspx (last visited May 17, 2019). … 17 Stephen T. Russell & Kara Joyner, Adolescent Sexual Orientation and…
More…Under federal and state law, school districts are obligated to provide students whose primary language is not English with appropriate bilingual or English as a second language (ESL) instruction and…
More…– the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools (PARSS), and the NAACP Pennsylvania State Conference. The Public Interest Law Center and the Education Law Center of Pennsylvania are representing…
Moreneed changes. For starters, we need to revise our state’s convoluted truancy laws in order to clarify the rules. Schools also need support to prevent and address truancy. We need…
More…wasn’t supposed to take, all because he wanted a girl’s “digits” – her phone number. He told administrators he expected to be suspended, the usual punishment for breaking the rules….
Moreregular education teachers to modify instruction for ELL students and guidelines for determining the hours of ESOL instruction required for varying levels of proficiency. This information should be drawn from…
More…15. 17 II. PETITIONERS’ CLAIMS ARE NOT SUBJECT TO STRICT SCRUTINY. Petitioners argue that the Commonwealth’s education funding scheme is unconstitutional under any level of scrutiny, but that it should…
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…
More…year, a federal court held that the provisions of the Pennsylvania Public School Code governing water-closets and out-houses cannot be construed to prohibit the presence of 1 In addition to…
More…on his education. After years of struggling in school, Walter was making progress with full-time special education instruction and counseling as a related service due to his emotional dis-regulation and…
MoreOn Feb. 7, 2023, Commonwealth Court Judge Renée Cohn Jubelirer issued a historic ruling in the Pennsylvania school funding case, declaring the PA school funding system unconstitutional. “All witnesses agree that every child…
More…minor; Tracy Hughes, parent of P.M.H. minor; Pennsylvania Assoc. of Rural and Small Schools; and The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People – Pennsylvania State Conference, Petitioners v….
More…support to modify instructional methods and implement effective instructional programs across content areas. The failure to provide both quality ESOL programs and modified instruction through all teachers can result in…
More…needs and have attended school in Easton Area School District all their lives. The two students are currently back in school pending a judge’s ruling on the case. NC_Easton_Complaint NC_Easton_PreliminaryInjunction…
More…Then, in February, the Governor presents his proposal to the General Assembly. The General Assembly makes changes as it sees fit, and eventually adopts a final budget. There are negotiations…
More…districts, seven parents, the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools and the state conference of the NAACP, claims that an “unconscionable and irrational funding disparity violates the Equal Protection…
More…appropriate instruction at on-site educational programs. For many different reasons, academic skills were not adequately developed, and frequently credits were not earned or were not accepted by school districts towards…
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