…Today there are organized national and local efforts targeting Black, Brown and LGBTQ students, erasing those populations from the curriculum and programs. These efforts threaten to undermine public schools by…
More…of race, color, ancestry, disability, religion, national origin, family status, and sex (including gender identity and sexual orientation). The PHRA affords broad protections against racial, sex-based, and disability discrimination. To…
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…are not within the rule of immunity”; but [s]uits which seek to compel affirmative action on the part of state officials … are within the rule.” Fawber v. Cohen, 532…
More…one of multiple other legal strategies to respond to student misbehaviors that don’t involve weapons. “ This case is particularly poignant, given the national, state and Pittsburgh data that reflects…
More…districts, seven parents, the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools and the state conference of the NAACP, claims that an “unconscionable and irrational funding disparity violates the Equal Protection…
More…Success for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System. The site is a project of The Legal Center for Youth Justice and Education (LCYJE) – a national collaboration of Southern Poverty…
More…Legislature, Foster Care Alumni of America (FCAA) is the national voice for the over 400,000 youth currently in foster care and the nearly 12 million American foster care alumni with…
More…minor; Tracy Hughes, parent of P.M.H. minor; Pennsylvania Assoc. of Rural and Small Schools; and The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People – Pennsylvania State Conference, Petitioners v….
More…Zero Tolerance: Discipline and Policing in Pennsylvania’s Public Schools (February 2015), available at https://www.aclupa.org/files/5714/2436/0535/2-162015_FINAL_64204_ACLU_ONLINE.pdf. 2 Gary Sweeten, “Who Will Graduate? Disruption of High School Education by Arrest and Court Involvement,”…
More…in an appropriate English as a Second Language (ESL) program with planned instruction provided by a qualified ESL/Bilingual teacher. • You should receive sufficient hours of ESL instruction per day….
More…national groups, on behalf of the most educationally at-risk students, to decrease and eliminate school exclusions and press for systemic reforms that address race, gender, and disability inequities. For the…
More…or trauma. The hearing comes one day after thousands of students joined the National Student Walkout, calling for action against gun violence. Read our testimony here. …
MoreFor the past decade, expenditures for educating students with disabilities in Pennsylvania have been climbing steadily, mirroring a national trend. But those rising costs have been almost entirely borne by…
More…in an appropriate English as a Second Language (ESL) program with planned instruction provided by a qualified ESL/Bilingual teacher. • You should receive sufficient hours of ESL instruction per day….
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…
More…at-risk students, we work with local, state, and national groups to decrease and eliminate school exclusions and press for systemic reforms that address race, gender, and disability inequities. For the…
More…personnel will not make schools safer while dramatically raising the odds that students will be injured or killed because of a fatal mistake. There is not one credible national, state,…
More…right to attend schools free of discrimination and harassment based on their race, color, or national origin. The right to be free from discrimination based on disability Students with disabilities…
More…comprehensible instruction in all content areas from all teachers. Teachers must adapt content and instructional method to the needs of ELLs. o Students may not be retained in a grade…
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