…in our schools PHILADELPHIA – Deborah Gordon Klehr, Executive Director of the Education Law Center of Pennsylvania issued the following statement today in the wake of Governor Wolf vetoing the…
More…underfunded public schools, six school districts including William Penn, Panther Valley, Lancaster, Greater Johnstown, Wilkes-Barre Area and Shenandoah Valley, the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools (PARSS), and the…
More…can equitably enjoy a thorough and efficient public education as required by our state constitution. Today I would like to highlight one particularly broken piece of our school funding system:…
More…The Education Law Center (ELC) announced today that it has filed a federal complaint on behalf of C.T., an 8th-grade honor student who was placed in a shelter on an…
More…Penn School District, Philadelphia parents, and others, ruling that education funding was a matter for the legislature and not the courts to decide. During oral arguments, lawyers arguing for the…
MoreCourt is expected to issue a ruling in the coming months. Regardless of the decision, an appeal of the ruling to the state Supreme Court is likely. “We are asking…
MorePa Funding Lawsuit edfundinglawsuit.wordpress.com November 10, 2014 Executive Summary Lawsuit: Pennsylvania School Funding Unconstitutional Six school districts from across the Commonwealth, an association of 150 rural and small schools, as…
MoreMarch 18th, 2015 – National Opportunity to Learn Campaign – While Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf and the state legislature argue over his proposed budget increase for education, some districts and…
More…R-63rd Dist., who is also a member of the commission, announced she would vote against any formula that removes that provision on which the rural school districts she represents depend….
More…basis of known or perceived gender, age, race, color, sexual orientation, gender identity expression, national origin, religion, disability, socioeconomic status or political belief.” Another portion of the proposal states that…
MoreBased on the Education Law Center’s legal complaintthe U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation into discriminatory placement of students in Pennsylvania’s Alternative Education for Disruptive Youth programs. The…
MoreFebruary 21, 2014 – Based on the Education Law Center’s legal complaint, the U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation into discriminatory placement of students in Pennsylvania’s Alternative Education…
MoreThe Special Education Funding Commission held public hearings throughout the state in 2013, receiving testimony from dozens of witnesses. Students, parents, educators, and national experts uniformly emphasized the long-term impact…
More…serving approximately 200,000 public school students. That’s one nurse per 1,025 students. National research recommends one nurse per 750 healthy students, according to the ELC report. One of the results…
More…have now had their 2011 funding cuts restored. There are 490 other school districts throughout the state that still have not. (Two school districts — Chester-Upland and Duquesne — received…
MorePennsylvania is a national outlier when it comes to following basic budgeting principles — accuracy, fairness, and transparency — that most states use when it comes to public school funding,…
More…further recognizes that an effective instructional program for ELs benefits from participation of the student’s parent/guardian. The within policy is adopted in order to establish practices and procedures for fostering…
More…sexual orientation, disability status, and other categories. ELC has long been a national leader in the fight against exclusionary discipline practices. To review some of the resources that ELC has…
MoreELC joined more than a dozen other civil rights organizations in releasing a new report highlighting the ways the Trump Administration is aggressively and intentionally limiting the civil rights protections…
More1 Response to Request for Public Comments on Proposed Rule DHS Docket No. ICEB-2018-0002 Submitted By Education Law Center-PA November 6, 2018 Debbie Seguin, Assistant Director Office of Policy, U.S….
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