Glen Mills Complaint

…for 4 PDE, AFFIDAVIT/CERTIFICATE OF NONPUBLIC , NON-LICENSED DAY SCHOOL OPERATED BY A BONA FIDE CHURCH OR OTHER RELIGIOUS BODY IN PENNSYLVANIA, (Rev. 2015) [hereinafter AFFIDAVIT], https://www.education.pa.gov/Documents/K-12/Nonpublic- Private%20Schools/Opening%20a%20Private%20or%20Nonpublic%20School/Affidavit%20of %20Nonpublic%20Nonlicensed%20Day.pdf. 5…

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Glen Mills Complaint FINAL

…of compliance for failure to comply with applicable regulations, failure to submit or comply with an acceptable plan to correct noncompliance of items, mistreatment or abuse of clients, gross incompetence,…

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ELC_StudentsDisabilities_Charters_2013

highly charterized community examined below. 1 See, e.g., Bruce Baker, The Commonwealth Triple-Screw: Special Education Funding & Charter School Payments in Pennsylvania, School Finance 101 (June 5, 2012), http://schoolfinance101.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/the-commonwealth-triple-screw-special- education-funding-charter-school-payments-in-pennsylvania….

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ELC Bullying OCR Complaint redacted

to bullying can also be found here: http://webgui.phila.k12.pa.us/offices/a/attendance–truancy/bullying-prevention/bullying- prevention-policy-and-procedures. https://1.next.westlaw.com/Link/Document/FullText?findType=Y&serNum=2012490826&pubNum=506&originatingDoc=I03a7e612f03a11e1b11ea85d0b248d27&refType=RP&fi=co_pp_sp_506_350&originationContext=document&transitionType=DocumentItem&contextData=(sc.History*oc.Search)#co_pp_sp_506_350 https://1.next.westlaw.com/Link/Document/FullText?findType=Y&serNum=2012490826&pubNum=506&originatingDoc=I03a7e612f03a11e1b11ea85d0b248d27&refType=RP&fi=co_pp_sp_506_350&originationContext=document&transitionType=DocumentItem&contextData=(sc.History*oc.Search)#co_pp_sp_506_350 https://1.next.westlaw.com/Link/Document/FullText?findType=Y&serNum=1995207171&pubNum=506&originatingDoc=I03a7e612f03a11e1b11ea85d0b248d27&refType=RP&fi=co_pp_sp_506_492&originationContext=document&transitionType=DocumentItem&contextData=(sc.History*oc.Search)#co_pp_sp_506_492 http://webgui.phila.k12.pa.us/offices/a/attendance–truancy/bullying-prevention/bullying-prevention-policy-and-procedures http://webgui.phila.k12.pa.us/offices/a/attendance–truancy/bullying-prevention/bullying-prevention-policy-and-procedures 28 to adhere to the District’s own anti-bullying Procedures only made matters worse—by subjecting STUDENT to…

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Petitioners’ Brief

Pa. Dep’t of Educ., Finances AFR Expenditures 2015-2016, at “2015-16 Revenue by Source” tab at H746, J746, available at http://www.education.pa.gov/_layouts/download.aspx?SourceUrl=http://www.education.pa.gov/ Documents/Teachers- Administrators/School%20Finances/Finances/Summary%20of%20AFR%20Data/AFR%20Data %20Summary%20Level/Finances%20AFR%20Revenues%202015-2016.xlsx. 19 Pa. Dep’t of Educ., 2017-18 Estimated…

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2018 National School Walkout Fact Sheet

Gun control that does not result in targeted policing of black and brown bodies. https://www.womensmarch.com/enough-toolkit https://www.womensmarch.com/enough-toolkit https://www.actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/enough-national-school-walkout https://townhallproject.com/ https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/ban-military-style-assault-2?source=c.em&r_by=236359 https://www.facebook.com/pg/marchforourlives/events/?ref=page_internal http://nationalschoolwalkout.us/ https://www.facebook.com/215studentunion/posts/10156159559271740 NATIONAL SCHOOL WALKOUT | 2018 Education Law Center…

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Supreme Court Amicus Petition for Allowance of Appeal

…Incidents Rock Area Schools. Now What?, Philly.com (Oct. 21, 2017), https://bit.ly/2iOtvIg (reporting that the Anti- Defamation League received an increase in complaints of bias-related incidents in 2017 compared to prior…

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Title IX Comments

(2019). 2 See Hannah Giorgis, Many women of color don’t go to the police after sexual assault for a reason, THE GUARDIAN (Mar. 25, 2015, 7:49 AM), https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/25/women-of-color-police- sexual-assault-racist-criminal-justice. See…

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Creating21stCenturyLearners_LibraryDataReport.10.17.12

…paschoollibraryproject.org October 2012 1 Creating 21st-Century Learners: A Report on Pennsylvania’s Public School Libraries October 2012 Acknowledgment The project partners—The Pennsylvania School Librarians Association represented by Debra Kachel; Health Sciences…

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Memorandum Opinion (11-30-2016)

…controversy,’ 20 U.S.C. § 1415(i)(2)(A), within 90 days of the final administrative decision, 20 U.S.C. § 1415(i)(2)(B).” Blunt v. Lower Merion Sch. Dist., 767 F.3d 247, 270 (3d Cir. 2014)….

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WmPenn_v_PDE_Legis_ReplyBrief_PrelimObjections_3_3_15

(Pa. 1999) ……………………………………………………………………………….. 6, 14, 21, 22 Pennsylvania Envtl. Def. Found. v. Com., No. 228 M.D. 2012, — A.3d —-, 2015 WL 79773 (Pa. Commw. Ct. Jan. 7, 2015), reargument…

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Your Rights as LGBTGNC student 8.2017

February 2017, the Trump Administration withdrew 2016 guidance from the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice that affirmed Title IX’s protection of transgender students. However, while the 2016 guidance served…

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Your Rights as LGBTGNC student 8.2017

February 2017, the Trump Administration withdrew 2016 guidance from the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice that affirmed Title IX’s protection of transgender students. However, while the 2016 guidance served…

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18-09-19 Scarnati Answer and New Matter

Petitioners correctly recited Panther Valley’s and Lower Merion’s combined state and local tax revenue for 2012-13. Denied that the “costing out” study was based on valid methodology or reached correct…

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Ex. C to Complaint

…6925, 2012 WL 175020, (M.D. Pa., 2012): Defendants contend, and Magistrate Judge Methvin agreed, that because Plaintiffs did not raise their ADA or Rehabilitation Act claims at their due process…

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ELC Cyber Charter Testimony 2012

ELC’s November 2012 testimony to the Pennsylvania Department of Education on eight cyber charter school applications. An excerpt: “The academic performance of the existing cyber charter schools raises serious questions…

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