school and diverted instead to Phoenix, which offers inferior English instruction on an accelerated structure. The action is ongoing before Judge Smith in the District Court for the Eastern District…
MoreLaw Center, released the following statement today in response to Senate Bill 383, which the full Senate is scheduled to vote on today: “Everyone wants our schools to be safe…
More…its constitutional mandate.” “Today’s ruling ensures that our schoolchildren across Pennsylvania will finally have their day in court,” said Deborah Gordon Klehr, executive director of Education Law Center – PA,…
More…in English. Thinking that it was the same diagnosis and recommendation as the previous evaluation, which she had read and understood thoroughly, she went in to a meeting with her…
More…attached thereto, the allegations are accepted as true and considered in the light most favorable to the plaintiff. Id. at 176. Under Rule 12(b)(6), “the court evaluates the merits of…
More…CommissionRaynes & Lawn RSM US LLP Education Sponsor Arnold & PorterBlank Rome LLPGeneva Campbell Brown and Emmanuel BrownAndrea Casher and Thomas SuttonCherkas Metcalfe Law PLLCCignaWendy Epstein and Louis BroadFox Rothschild LLPLaw Office…
More…experiencing poverty also had higher levels of teacher turnover, ELC argued. The complaint brought scrutiny to the way the district assigned teachers; at the time, qualified and experienced teachers were…
More…and enforcement of civil rights protections for schoolchildren across Pennsylvania. Read more, and see our companion piece on how the dismantling of the Department of Education is affecting key student…
More…is essential to ensuring that Pennsylvania’s young children receive the early intervention to which they are entitled and that the state is fulfilling its legal obligations. Read the comments here….
More…Rural School District Supplement_x000D_(Sorted by adjusted average daily membership) Rural School District Supplemen To Qualify: A school district’s 2012-2013 aid ratio must be greater than (.6700) and less than (.7000),…
More…case was carefully reviewed in its entirety. In special education due process hearings, there is a world of difference between what is technically admissible and what is truly necessary to…
More…through February 2015, the Student received 3.5 to 4.5 hours of homebound instruction per week. S-56. 59. In February of 2015, the Student returned to LA with bus transportation and…
More…sustaining the world’s infrastructure, with a demonstrated and passionate commitment to STEM education programs for elementary school students in Pennsylvania. Opera Philadelphia, one of the most innovative opera companies…
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…
MoreFor more information, contact Paul Socolar, [email protected], 215-906-1250 Statement on School Safety Commission Recommendation to Rescind Federal Discipline Guidance December 18, 2018 – The widespread problem of racial discrimination in…
MoreDistrict, which has cut hundreds of millions from its budget and still approached the new school year facing roughly a $300 million dollar budget gap. Read the full story: http://axisphilly.org/article/breaking-down-claim-of-historic-education-funding-under-corbett/…
More…and international bodies, including briefing the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the right of school districts to engage in voluntary desegregation efforts. Before joining ELC, Staley served as the founding executive…
More…Court Judge Edward G. Smith today signed a consent decree requiring the district to educate immigrant students in its main high school, McCaskey. The class-action lawsuit, initiated on behalf of…
More…In March 2011, following their father family home, only for vacations. The 2 to keep the children in the same school district despite their living disruption in order to ensure…
More…Comm’n, 879 A.2d 146, 153-54 (Pa. 2005) (holding that the Walker rule applies “in a variety of other agency proceedings” where an agency’s own regulations are silent on hearsay rules)….
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