…was slashed. “Cuts at the state level just kill us,” said Jim Duffy, superintendent of the Fannett-Metal School District, a small system in south-central Pennsylvania. Read the full story: http://articles.philly.com/2013-10-01/news/42539843_1_districts-school-funding-chief-education-officer…
More…Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (“Section 504”), schools reflexively refer students and their families to Truancy Court—resulting in additional lost instruction time. Not only is the referral to Truancy…
MoreMay 16, 2014 – by William Bender and Solomon Leach, Philadelphia Daily News – Fifth-graders have been sent to kindergarten. An eighth-grader was banished to first grade. Draconian “behavior contracts”…
Morethe bills would spread already inadequate state funding even thinner and further damage neighborhood schools, the very choice depended on by most families in the state. Read the complete Op-Ed….
More…15 cyber charters already operating in the state, the Philadelphia-based nonprofit called for a one-year moratorium on new ones. Cyber charters enroll 35,000 students statewide. Read the full story: http://articles.philly.com/2013-11-23/news/44368264_1_regular-charter-schools-cyber-dorothy-june-brown…
MoreJuly 19, 2016 LANCASTER, PA – The ACLU of Pennsylvania, the Education Law Center, and pro bono counsel Pepper Hamilton LLP filed a federal lawsuit today alleging that the School…
MoreAugust 7, 2013 – by Christina Samuels – The Pennsylvania-based Education Law Center filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice today, saying that young people with disabilities and…
MoreCommonwealth Court today, seven years after it was filed. The case centers on wide spending gaps among the state’s poorest and wealthiest school districts.” Read this report from WHYY/Keystone Crossroads….
More…their history and experiences. Today, there are organized national and local efforts threatening to undermine public schools, dividing parents and communities. These groups are banning books, banning the teaching of…
MoreOn Feb. 7, Commonwealth Court Judge Renée Cohn Jubelirer issued her ruling in the Pennsylvania school funding case. The Education Law Center-PA and the Public Interest Law Center, who represent petitioners in the…
MoreMay 2, 2017 – The Incline – by Sarah Anne Hughes A pencil is not a weapon inside a Pittsburgh public school. That’s the crux of an Allegheny County Court…
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…
Morethe group POWER last summer – says Pennsylvania’s inequitable school funding isn’t just a matter of low-income versus high-income, but of race. Read the full article at the Reading Eagle….
More…hardest hit by the coronavirus, have also borne the brunt of the resulting school disruption, receiving diminished educational services due in part to lack of access to healthcare and due…
More…of review used when “considering a motion to dismiss under Rule 12(b)(6), i.e., construing the alleged facts in favor of the nonmoving party.” Aichele, 757 F.3d at 358. To survive…
More…by the coronavirus, have also borne the brunt of school disruption, receiving diminished educational services. And students in underfunded school districts have been subjected to deplorable school building conditions. See…
More…Agreement provides supplemental educational services to all students and compensatory education services to students with disabilities who resided in the group home. Read the Settlement Agreement Read the notice to…
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…nothing more than an ill-conceived privatization scheme to convert the 7,500-student school district into charter schools run by the for-profit company, Charter Schools USA. This massive overhaul of an entire…
More…we are making real progress. We streamlined our free and reduced price lunch program, implemented Read 180 to boost literacy skills, and adopted a new program to address the student…
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