…COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES—NOT RESIDENTIAL PLACEMENTS—ARE EFFECTIVE AT ADDRESSING TRUANCY ……………………………………………………………………………………. 9 A. In Placing J.L., The Court Failed To Consider Or Address The Root Causes Of His Truancy …………………………………………………………………. 9 B….

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…Risk Behavior, 30 J. Adolescent Health 364 (2002), https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X (01)00415-3/abstract ……………………………………………………………………………. 9 Steinar Brandslet, All Forms Of Sexual Harassment Can Cause Psychological Harm, Gemini (Sept. 11, 2017), https://geminiresearchnews.com/2017/11/ forms-sexual-harassment-can-cause-psychological-harm…………………………. 6…

…http://www.hear-me.net/stories/7244. 32 Interview with Chris, 17, a senior at Palumbo High School (Philadelphia County), “We lost guidance counselors to budget cuts” (Dec. 3, 2014), available at http://www.hear- me.net/stories/8333. 21 administer…

…Pennsylvania’s Public Schools (February 2015), available at https://www.aclupa.org/files/5714/2436/0535/2- 162015_FINAL_64204_ACLU_ONLINE.pdf. https://www.aclupa.org/files/5714/2436/0535/2-16-2015_FINAL_64204_ACLU_ONLINE.pdf https://www.aclupa.org/files/5714/2436/0535/2-16-2015_FINAL_64204_ACLU_ONLINE.pdf https://www.aclupa.org/files/5714/2436/0535/2-16-2015_FINAL_64204_ACLU_ONLINE.pdf https://www.aclupa.org/files/5714/2436/0535/2-16-2015_FINAL_64204_ACLU_ONLINE.pdf%22%EF%B7%9FHYPERLINK%20%22https:/www.aclupa.org/files/5714/2436/0535/2-16-2015_FINAL_64204_ACLU_ONLINE.pdf https://www.aclupa.org/files/5714/2436/0535/2-16-2015_FINAL_64204_ACLU_ONLINE.pdf https://www.aclupa.org/files/5714/2436/0535/2-16-2015_FINAL_64204_ACLU_ONLINE.pdf APPENDIX A To: From: Re: Date: All Members, Pennsylvania Senate Deborah Gordon Klehr, Executive Director…

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…staff on youth abuses, and improper staff to youth ratios which by Pennsylvania law are required to be 1 staff to 8 youth. 60 212. Staff on youth abuses accounted…

…JUST LEARNING: THE IMPERATIVE TO TRANSFORM JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEMS INTO EFFECTIVE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS—A STUDY OF JUVENILE JUSTICE SCHOOLS IN THE SOUTH AND THE NATION 14 (2014) [hereinafter JUST LEARNING], https://www.southerneducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Just-Learning-Final.pdf….

…bkintisch@elc‐pa.org Sandra Zelno, School Reform Associate ELC Pittsburgh Office 412‐255‐6414 szelno@elc‐pa.org Disability Rights Network www.drnpa.org Ilene Shane, CEO Sallie Lynagh, Director, Children’s Project Disability Rights Network 1414 North Cameron St.,…

…http://www.nchh.org/Portals/0/Contents/PA%20-%20Impact%20Stmt.pdf ] [2: Child Lead Surveillance, Annual Report 2014 available at http://www.health.pa.gov/My%20Health/Infant%20and%20Childrens%20Health/Lead%20Poisoning%20Prevention%20and%20Control/Documents/2014%20Lead%20Surveillance%20Annual%20Report%20r2.pdf ] [3: Pediatric Lead Exposure Flint Water Results, Mona Hanna-Attisha, available at http://www.scribd.com/doc/282806501/Pediatric-Lead-Exposure-Flint-Water-Results ] There is no safe…

…Action Corps., Dual-Status Youth – Technical Assistance Workbook, 4 (2013), http://www.modelsforchange.net/publications/515. 25 20 U.S.C. § 6434(c)(1). http://www.ndrn.org/images/Documents/Issues/Education/ESSA/Comments_on_Title_I_ESEA_Foster_Care_Provisions.pdf http://www.ndrn.org/images/Documents/Issues/Education/ESSA/Comments_on_Title_I_ESEA_Foster_Care_Provisions.pdf http://www.modelsforchange.net/publications/515 24 iv. Prohibit blanket policies that force returning students to enroll…

…Money Matter in Education?, page iv, Shanker Institute (2012), available at http://www.shankerinstitute.org/resource/does-money-matter-education (“[T]he things that cost money benefit students, and there is scarce evidence that there are more cost-effective alternatives.”)….

…http://ed.psu.edu/news/2015-jan-march-news/accountability-measure). 26 Many of these suggestions are consistent with recent guidance from the federal government regarding best practices in school climate and discipline. http://www.elc-pa.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/ELC_Testimony_Charters_LegislativeIntent_12_11_14.pdf http://www.saveourschoolsnj.org/save/corefiles/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/NJ-Charter-School-Report_10.29.2014.pdf http://www.saveourschoolsnj.org/save/corefiles/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/NJ-Charter-School-Report_10.29.2014.pdf http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/delaware/75875-aclu http://8rri53pm0cs22jk3vvqna1ub.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/RFA_PACER_SPP_Brief_March_2015.pdf http://8rri53pm0cs22jk3vvqna1ub.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/RFA_PACER_SPP_Brief_March_2015.pdf http://ed.psu.edu/news/2015-jan-march-news/accountability-measure…

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…(2014) available at http://www.projectuturn.net/docs/PromiseWorthKeeping.pdf. 3 According to the 2017 Voices of Youth Count, nearly one-third o http://www.projectuturn.net/docs/PromiseWorthKeeping.pdf f youth identified as homeless in a point-in-time count had been in foster…

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…Column: Y] available at: http://www.education.pa.gov/_layouts/download.aspx?SourceUrl=http://www.education.pa.gov/ Documents/Teachers-Administrators/School%20Finances/Education%20Budget/2018- 19%20Proposed%20BEF.xlsx. (derived from dividing Column U by Column Y). 15 See Pa. Dep’t. of Educ., 2016-17 Summary Level State Expenditure Data (2017) [Microsoft Excel…

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