Nov. 10, 2014 – Peter Jackson, Associated Press – Public school advocates sued top state officials Monday, alleging that an irrational system of distributing state subsidies is creating academic inequities…
Morepushing [rule-breakers] away; you’re going to find a way to engage them.” That doesn’t mean adopting a permissive attitude toward disruptive actions. Greenblatt summed it up this way: “In a…
More…converted 21 other schools to charter operation, and instituted reforms that replaced the principal and majority of staff at 12 more schools. In barely 10 years, the Philadelphia charter sector…
Morethe parent. This ruling instructs school districts for the first time that a parent’s burden of proof in the residency context is to provide the same documentary evidence that would…
More…We have also joined with dozens of groups from around the state – including business leaders, educators, advocates and faith leaders representing rural, urban, suburban, and charter schools – to…
More…Local advocates and civil rights leaders are preparing to be more watchful in response to the decision under the Trump administration to scale back the U.S. Department of Education’s investigations…
Morethis vulnerable student cohort, teachers need training and support to modify instructional methods, implement effective instructional programs across content areas and become culturally competent and trauma informed. 8 By focusing…
MoreFebruary 20, 2017 Pittsburgh Public Schools Board of Directors 341 S. Bellefield Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Re: Education Law Center Public Testimony On behalf of the Education Law Center and…
More…comprehensive settlement. The agreement, which the School Board approved tonight, restricts the district from placing any newly arrived 17 to 20-year-old immigrant students with little or no English fluency into…
More…battle with the American Civil Liberties Union at a cost of more than $400,000. Starting immediately, refugees ages 17 to 21 who speak little to no English will attend McCaskey…
More…in an altercation in school. The 10th grade girl was touched sexually and the boy was scraped with a pencil. The School District expelled her for a full year under…
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…the latest move in a long-running attempt to bring a chronically deficit-ridden district back to financial health. “We keep asking the state to give us more,” said Chester Upland’s school…
More…of Pepper Hamilton to challenge the district’s practice of placing newly arrived older immigrant students with little or no English fluency into a privately run alternative school, Phoenix Academy, or…
More…the Department. The ruling will not only improve this child’s transportation arrangements, but requires the Department to address its responsibility to ensure timely and safe transportation for other similarly situated…
More…19144 Disability Rights Pennsylvania, Peri Jude Radecic, Chief Executive Officer Harrisburg, PA, 17101 Philadelphia, PA, 19107–4798 Pittsburgh, PA, 15219-1505 Education Law Center, Deborah Gordon Klehr, Executive Director Philadelphia, PA, 19107…
More…February 2017, the Trump Administration withdrew 2016 guidance from the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice that affirmed Title IX’s protection of transgender students. However, while the 2016 guidance served…
More…concerns curriculum, services or lack of equal access to educational opportunities, contact your Intermediate Unit or • Pennsylvania Department of Education Bureau of Curriculum, Assessment and Instruction, Division of Instructional…
More…are sleeping on our streets, in shelters, running away, kicked out, and “couch surfing.” National findings show that in any year, one in 10 young adults ages 18-25, and one…
MoreTO: The Honorable Members of the Pennsylvania General Assembly FROM: Education Stakeholders and Interested Parties DATE: January 19, 2018 SUBJECT: Senate Bill 2 – Education Savings Accounts, i.e. school vouchers…
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