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educational and life outcomes for our nation’s most vulnerable students. We would welcome any opportunity to work with the Department towards achieving this critical goal. http://thenotebook.org/articles/2014/12/10/state-needs-a-rational-fix-for-its-method-of-funding-charter-students-with-disabilities http://www.researchforaction.org/publications/revisiting-cyber-charter-school-performance/ http://www.researchforaction.org/publications/revisiting-cyber-charter-school-performance/ http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/education/80533-beyond-failing-schools-the-difficulty-of-fairly-comparing-public-schools-on-an-uneven-playing-field http://www.pccy.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CharterRenewalDocsCombined1-2013.pdf…

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…

…OUTCOMES FOR YOUTH PLACED IN CONGREGATE CARE SETTINGS? 2 (2018), https://caseyfamilypro-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/media/SF_CC- Outcomes-Resource.pdf …………………………………………………………………….. 23, 25 Children’s Defense Fund, Family First Prevention Services Act, Historic New Reforms for Child Welfare, https://www.childrensdefense.org/policy/policy-priorities/child-…

…http://www.pasa-net.org/Files/SurveysAndReports/2016/PASA-PASBOReportSpring2016.pdf http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4r07q8kg#page-1 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/003172171409500507 http://www.nea.org/assets/docs/HE/EW-TruthInLabeling.pdf https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/07/the-racial-imbalances-of-special-education/397775/ https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/07/the-racial-imbalances-of-special-education/397775/ https://penndata.hbg.psu.edu/Portals/66/documents/PennDataBooks/Statistical_Summary_2014-2015.pdf https://penndata.hbg.psu.edu/Portals/66/documents/PennDataBooks/Statistical_Summary_2014-2015.pdf http://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-charter-school-education-funding-20150823-story.html http://triblive.com/news/education/6196278-74/education-charter-special http://www.post-gazette.com/news/education/2012/05/27/Special-needs-education-is-battleground-for-charter-schools-other-districts-in-Pa/stories/201205270267 http://www.post-gazette.com/news/education/2012/05/27/Special-needs-education-is-battleground-for-charter-schools-other-districts-in-Pa/stories/201205270267 http://www.post-gazette.com/news/education/2012/05/27/Special-needs-education-is-battleground-for-charter-schools-other-districts-in-Pa/stories/201205270267 http://www.pilcop.org/how-the-charter-formula-games-special-education/ Inequities in Pennsylvania’s Charter Sector: Segregation by Disability | 2017 3 creates a perverse incentive for…

21, 2014), http://www.post- gazette.com/news/education/2014/11/21/State-student-scores-declined-with-reduced-funding- test-results-show/stories/201411240030. 21 See Petition, Allen v. Dumaresq, No. 474 MD 2014 at 4, 9 (Pa. Commonw. Sept. 9, 2014), available at http://www.pilcop.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/14.09.09-Allen-Petition- for-Review-without-exhibits.pdf. 22 See Sharon…

at http://www.ldnews.com/ci_22036769/lebanon-school-district-loses-truancy-lawsuit http://jjlp.law.ucdavis.edu/archives/vol-10-no-1/Truancy.pdf http://www.schoolengagement.org/TruancypreventionRegistry/Admin/Resources/Resources/TheLegalandEconomicImplicationsofTruancyExecutiveSummary.pdf http://www.schoolengagement.org/TruancypreventionRegistry/Admin/Resources/Resources/TheLegalandEconomicImplicationsofTruancyExecutiveSummary.pdf http://readingeagle.com/news/article/woman-in-berks-county-prison-for-truancy-found-dead-in-her-cell#.VBcu8qPD-Uk http://readingeagle.com/news/article/woman-in-berks-county-prison-for-truancy-found-dead-in-her-cell#.VBcu8qPD-Uk http://www.ldnews.com/ci_22036769/lebanon-school-district-loses-truancy-lawsuit 7 There was no evidence that these policies actually reduced truancy. In addition, most magistrate judges tell me that they believe fines…

…per- student expenditure by Pennsylvania school districts (about $12,700 for 2007-08 – see http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/summaries_of_annual_financial_report_data/7673/afr_excel_data_files/50904 7). 8 See http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/grants___funding/7321/grant_awards_2007-2008/509415/. 9 We derive this percentage from the figures in the preceding two…

…relAted ProBlems conFronting new jerseY Youth returning to locAl communities And schools From juvenile detention FAcilities And juvenile justice commission ProgrAms 6 (2003), available at http://www.njisj.org/document/giles_ report.pdf. 11 AdvAncement Project,…

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…2005). (Summary available at http://www.pde.state.pa.us/special_edu/cwp/view.asp?Q=109539&A=177). The Harris Poll, “Americans with Disabilities Still Pervasively Disadvantaged” October 14, 1998 (Available at http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=152) Hasselbring, T. S. and C. H. Williams-Glaser, Use of computer…

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…AND LATINOS, AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (Aug. 23, 2011), https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110823104844.htm …………………….24 Education Discrimination, Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission (Jan. 18, 2018), http://www.phrc.pa.gov/File-A-Complaint/Types-of- Complaints/Pages/Education.aspx ……………………………………………………………………………….15 GLSEN, THE 2015 NATIONAL SCHOOL CLIMATE SURVEY xviii…

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