BestInvestment_Full_Report_6.27.11

…Director, Campaign for Educational Equity at Teachers College, has played a leading role in supporting research in the field through the sponsorship of conferences, websites, and other forms of interaction…

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ELC memo to DOJ 8-31-2015

…what the other exclusionary discipline numbers (i.e. suspensions and expulsions) look like in these districts. Of course, if the decline in AEDY enrollment is attributable to using new, positive, prevention…

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November 2018 City Council School Board Hearing Testimony

…improve educational outcomes for pregnant and parenting students which were developed as a result of a multi-year project focused on this vulnerable student cohort. mailto:[email protected] https://www.phila.gov/departments/department-of-public-health/ https://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah/sites/default/files/tpp-ss-phmc-2018.pdf http://www.philaedfund.org/sites/default/files/Pregnant%20and%20Parenting%20Teens%20in%20Philadelphia–%20Academic%20and%20Social%20Outcomes.pdf http://www.philaedfund.org/sites/default/files/Pregnant%20and%20Parenting%20Teens%20in%20Philadelphia–%20Academic%20and%20Social%20Outcomes.pdf http://articles.philly.com/2012-08-30/news/33477284_1_teen-mothers-teen-pregnancy-rate-teen-births…

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Back-to-School Guide 2022

…addition to understanding the legal rights explained in this guide, you can also visit your school district’s website for specific information about how it plans to educate and provide supports…

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ELC Support Center PCCY Comments to Proposed Criminal Court Rules Re Inability to Pay

…being eliminated, Denton Record Chronicle (June 2015) http://www.dentonrc.com/news/state/2015/06/20/criminal-truancy-courts-for-students-being-eliminated http://youthlaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Truancy-Research.pdf. https://www.texasappleseed.org/sites/default/files/TruancyReport_All_FINAL_SinglePages.pdf http://www.publiccounsel.org/tools/assets/files/Counterproductive-and-Wasteful-Los-Angeles-daytime-curfew-report_FINAL.pdf. 4 • Confine a person in parental relation to a child who is habitually truant only as a last…

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CRRT Paper on Civil Rights Rollbacks Final for Distribution 111518

…Department of Education.) https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/letters/colleague-201401-title-vi.pdf https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/letters/colleague-201401-title-vi.pdf https://safesupportivelearning.ed.gov/sites/default/files/2014%20SSD%20Webinar%20Series%202_DCL%2001%2029%2014%20%283%29.pdf https://safesupportivelearning.ed.gov/sites/default/files/2014%20SSD%20Webinar%20Series%202_DCL%2001%2029%2014%20%283%29.pdf 8 Unfortunately, the Departments are now considering rescinding this guidance,18 which was developed as the result of a thoughtful process and has been…

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ELC_CharterBillAnalysis_10_12_12

…legislators looking for a vehicle to rush charter school law changes through the General Assembly. For these reasons and the reasons below, the charter legislation should be removed these bills….

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McKeesport.Settlement.Final

…website; Education Law Center website; Disability Rights Network website; Email to County Children & Youth and Probation for the above listed counties; Auberle website and McKeesport Area School District website….

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PAFundingSuit_Executive_Summary

…additional funding, totaling $4.4 billion. In response, the General Assembly approved a bill that established funding targets for each school district and a formula for distributing education funds in a…

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SupportforSpecialEducationFunding2016v3

…least $100 million in additional special education funding over the course of fiscal years 2015 through 2017, to be distributed through the special education funding formula. School districts desperately need…

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