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More…Assessment of Educational Progress, the “Nation’s Report Card,” “proficiency” rates in 2014 were below 50 percent for every racial and ethnic group, in both reading and math, in both fourth…
More…to Senate Bill 621, a dangerous expansion to the armed presence of security personnel in school that has been recently amended for the worse. The bill has already passed the…
Morebeing 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…
MoreCheck out this 7/9/17 national story from NBC News about charter schools. ELC’s Executive Director Deborah Gordon Klehr talks to reporter Craig Melvin about charter schools often failing to serve…
More…District would receive 18.9 percent, or about $75 million, of that new funding, said the advocates, who held a news conference in front of the district’s North Broad Street headquarters….
More…truancy issues, that may arise. You may also contact the Education Law Center directly by following instructions available here. You can learn more about ELC’s mission here. Parent Resources The…
More…the long run.” The ruling in the school-funding suit had been long awaited in Philadelphia, where budget cuts have rocked the district. Mayoral candidate Lynne Abraham had used it as…
More…teacher. Parent volunteer Aurelia Carter-Scott received a family support award. Nancy Hubley, manager director of the Western Pennsylvania office of the Education Law Center, received a community champion award. http://www.post-gazette.com/news/education/2015/03/25/Pittsburgh-schools-honor-those-who-help-students-with-disabilities/stories/201503250227…
MoreMarch 11, 2015 – by Kara Newhouse, LancasterOnline – As long as public schools are open and running, the state Legislature is meeting its constitutional obligation, argued legal representatives for…
MoreMarch 11, 2015 – by Jan Murphy, Patriot News – Saying just turning on the lights and keeping the school doors open falls short of the Legislature’s constitutional obligation of…
More…General Assembly. In November, six school districts, parents of schoolchildren, the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools and the state conference of the NAACP filed a lawsuit asking the…
More…disabilities and appropriate supports for English learners. In the letter (news release here), advocates express grave concern that children, particularly children with disabilities, English learners, and children living in poverty,…
More…of the class action settlement, is hereby GRANTED. The Court makes the following findings of fact and conclusions of law under Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure 1702, 1708, and 1709…
MoreFebruary 5, 2019 Statement on Governor Wolf’s Budget Address Deborah Gordon Klehr, executive director of the Education Law Center, issued this statement following Governor Tom Wolf’s budget address today: “We…
MoreAugust 7, 2013 – The Education Law Center today filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice seeking an investigation into discriminatory placement of students in Pennsylvania’s Alternative Education…
More…Youth, and the Public Interest Law Center filed an amicus brief today in support of the Tamaqua Education Association’s challenge to the Tamaqua Area School District’s new policy to arm…
More…members of the merits panel. Today, the Court has issued the opinion as a precedential per curiam opinion. See 3rd Cir. I.O.P. 12.1 (d). Case: 17-2886 Document: 003113139194 Page: 2…
MoreDecember 21, 2023 – A state administrative complaint filed today by the Education Law Center claims that school-age youths with disabilities at the Allegheny County Jail (ACJ) are not receiving…
More…Education Law Center, released the following statement today in response to the tentative budget agreement between legislative leaders and Gov. Wolf: “The need for additional state education funding has been…
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