Pennsylvania Association of School Business Officials (“PASBO”) and Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators (“PASA”), rising costs have besieged school districts across the state; 75% percent of school districts statewide decided…

school assessment intended to “help school districts guide students toward meeting state standards.” See Pa. Dep’t. of Educ., Keystone Exams (2016), http://www.education.pa.gov/K-12/Assessment%20and%20Accountability/Pages/Keystone- Exams.aspx. 16 40. The statewide 2016-17 results for…

questions determines what standard of review is to be applied. Most important for present purposes, “[t]he first type—classifications implicating 15 neither suspect classes nor fundamental rights—will be sustained if it…

decisions from other jurisdictions cannot save their constitutional challenges. B. Petitioners’ Detailed Justiciability Analysis Misconstrues Pennsylvania Case Law and Ignores Marrero. Unable to distinguish Marrero, Petitioners choose to ignore its…

the state’s own academic standards, because their school districts cannot afford to provide essential services or repair crumbling facilities. Worse, these school districts are powerless to remedy this shameful situation….

school districts. 2. Since 1999, Pennsylvania Has Overhauled Its Public Education System by Adopting Academic Content Standards and Statewide Assessments. In 1999, Pennsylvania overhauled its academic standards and student assessment…

org/Standard/PACore. See also Brandt, E. (2015). Area Schools Bracing for Lower PSSA Scores. http://www. pottsmerc.com/general-news/20150810/area-schools-bracing-for-lower-pssa-scores 84 Rivera, P. (2015). https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2193884-pssa-ed-sec-e-mail.html 85 Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators and the Pennsylvania Association…

Other States’ Education Funding Formulas. http://www.elc-pa.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/ ELC_schoolfundingreport.2013.pdf. See also Chute, E. (2014). Pennsylvania Student Scores declined with Reduced Funding, Test Results Show. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. http://www.post-gazette.com/ news/education/2014/11/21/State-student-scores-declined-with-reduced-funding-test-results-show/ stories/201411240030. 54 Buckheit, J….

org/Standard/PACore. See also Brandt, E. (2015). Area Schools Bracing for Lower PSSA Scores. http://www. pottsmerc.com/general-news/20150810/area-schools-bracing-for-lower-pssa-scores 84 Rivera, P. (2015). https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2193884-pssa-ed-sec-e-mail.html 85 Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators and the Pennsylvania Association…

School Payments in Pennsylvania, School Finance 101 (June 5, 2012), http://schoolfinance101.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/the-commonwealth-triple-screw-special-education- funding-charter-school-payments-in-pennsylvania. 3 http://febp.newamerica.net/background-analysis/federal-school-nutrition-programs). http://schoolfinance101.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/the-commonwealth-triple-screw-special-education-funding-charter-school-payments-in-pennsylvania http://schoolfinance101.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/the-commonwealth-triple-screw-special-education-funding-charter-school-payments-in-pennsylvania http://febp.newamerica.net/background-analysis/federal-school-nutrition-programs ! “#$%&'()*!+&,!-.*’./!! 01(2&#.231(&!4!0(”56$/71! ,,,8.2%93&8)/7! ! comprehensive enrollment, since the charter sector is also…

S. Cuccaro-Alamin, First-Generation Students: Undergraduates Whose Parents Never Enrolled in Postsecondary Education, in Postsecondary Education Descriptive Analysis Reports. 1998, National Center of Education Statistics: Washington, D.C. 137. Desforges, C. and…

standards and measures are otherwise the equivalent of constitutional standards. Determining the system’s efficiency requires a district-by-district inquiry into a district’s management of its resources. Denied that the Court can…

PDE should require that AEDY programs report incidents involving school violence, weapons possession, and controlled substances on the same basis as all other schools. PDE should establish performance targets for…

days of school.) . https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/us/politics/education-department-civil-rights-betsy-devos.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/us/politics/education-department-civil-rights-betsy-devos.html https://www.usccr.gov/press/2017/06-16-Efficacy-of-Federal-Civil-Rights-Enforcement.pdf https://www.usccr.gov/press/2017/06-16-Efficacy-of-Federal-Civil-Rights-Enforcement.pdf https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/upshot/dismal-results-from-vouchers-surprise-researchers-as-devos-era-begins.html?_r=0 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/upshot/dismal-results-from-vouchers-surprise-researchers-as-devos-era-begins.html?_r=0 https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-k-12/reports/2018/03/20/446699/highly-negative-impacts-vouchers/ https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-k-12/reports/2018/03/20/446699/highly-negative-impacts-vouchers/ 3 children with disabilities, English Language Learners, or students impacted by trauma in the same manner as public…

was an ongoing process which was not completed by the time this complaint was filed. Review of OCDEL’s dissemination of procedural safeguards information revealed that dissemination was extensive including disseminating…

e.g. Maura McInerney & Alex Dutton, ELC Steps Up to Protect the Rights of Bullied Students with Disabilities, The Legal Intelligencer (Dec. 26, 2017, 2:45 PM), https://www.law.com/thelegalintelligencer/sites/thelegalintelligencer/2017/12/26/elc-steps-up-to- protect-the-rights-of-bullied-students-with-disabilities/?slreturn=20180014222304. https://www.law.com/thelegalintelligencer/sites/thelegalintelligencer/2017/12/26/elc-steps-up-to-protect-the-rights-of-bullied-students-with-disabilities/?slreturn=20180014222304 https://www.law.com/thelegalintelligencer/sites/thelegalintelligencer/2017/12/26/elc-steps-up-to-protect-the-rights-of-bullied-students-with-disabilities/?slreturn=20180014222304…