ELC Opposition to Policy 805 FINAL

…Daniel J. Losen, Discipline Policies, Successful Schools, and Racial Justice, The Civil Rights Project at UCLA, at 6-7 (Oct. 2011), http://nepc.colorado.edu/files/NEPC- SchoolDiscipline.pdf. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/do-metal-detectors-and-x-ray-machines-belong-in-schools/2018/08/14/b4c31674-9f2d-11e8-8e87-c869fe70a721_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ce9eee8b6f2c https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/do-metal-detectors-and-x-ray-machines-belong-in-schools/2018/08/14/b4c31674-9f2d-11e8-8e87-c869fe70a721_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ce9eee8b6f2c https://www.edweek.org/media/hankin-02security.pdf https://ocrdata.ed.gov/Page?t=d&eid=27031&syk=8&pid=2278 https://ocrdata.ed.gov/Page?t=d&eid=27031&syk=8&pid=2278 https://ocrdata.ed.gov/Page?t=d&eid=27031&syk=8&pid=2374 https://ocrdata.ed.gov/Page?t=d&eid=27031&syk=8&pid=2374 https://www.aclupa.org/files/5714/2436/0535/2-16-2015_FINAL_64204_ACLU_ONLINE.pdf…

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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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18-09-19 Turzai Answer and New Matter

rural school districts); a Median Household Income Index (which measures a school district’s median household income compared to the statewide median household income); and a Tax Effort Capacity Index (which…

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ELC-Testimony-For-Legislative-Hearing-on-Truancy-June-9-2015

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…

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1-4-19 Special Education Funding Letter to Governor (Final)

…a few hours of education each week. https://www.senatorbrowne.com/special-education-funding-commission/ https://www.senatorbrowne.com/special-education-funding-commission-gallery/ http://www.senatorbrowne.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2015/05/Special-Education-Funding-Commission-Report-121113.pdf Shortchanging Students with Disabilities: State Underfunding of Special Education in PA| 2018 2 billion.8 Local districts had to allocate funds…

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Opinion: Allow trial on school funding

Alfano ( gja@pietragallo.com), Deborah R. Gross ( dgross@kcr-law.com),and Mary F. Platt ( mplatt@finemanlawfirm.com) respectively serve as chancellor, chancellor-elect, and vice chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association. Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20160217_Allow_trial_on_school_funding.html#toWQvMverZC3PaI7.99…

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WilliamPennSD_etal_v_PADepartmentofED_etal_11_10_14

…response to the invitation for comments, the House and Senate Education Committees each held two-day public hearings on the proposed regulations. Following the hearings, the committees submitted their comments to…

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Ex. A to Complaint

…1415(f)(3)(E)(ii)(II). Compensatory education is the remedy for substantive violations. Neither party presented evidence as to how much compensatory education is owed to the Student to compensate for the parental participation…

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SB 621 Stakeholder Memo – 6-21-19

…Pennsylvania Senate and been approved by the House Education Committee. Dangerously Increasing the Presence of Guns in Schools The federal Gun-Free School Zones Act, 18 U.S.C. § 992(q) et al.,…

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Civil-Rights-Roundtable-Letter-Sessions-1-06-2016

Opinion of the Justices, 624 So. 2d 107, 114 (Ala. 1993). http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/ http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jeff-sessions-says-he-handled-these-civil-rights-cases-he-barely-touched-them/2017/01/03/4ddfffa6-d0fa-11e6-a783-cd3fa950f2fd_story.html?utm_term=.f09e50846bba https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jeff-sessions-says-he-handled-these-civil-rights-cases-he-barely-touched-them/2017/01/03/4ddfffa6-d0fa-11e6-a783-cd3fa950f2fd_story.html?utm_term=.f09e50846bba 4 authority to oversee the state’s school funding plans.20 He then petitioned the court to…

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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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Memorandum in Opposition to Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss

…& REATH LLP One Logan Square, Suite 2000 Philadelphia, PA 19103-6996 Telephone: (215) 988-2700 Facsimile: (215) 988-2757 paul.saint-antoine@dbr.com chanda.miller@dbr.com ginene.lewis@dbr.com lucas.michelen@dbr.com Attorneys for Plaintiffs Case 2:15-cv-04782-MSG Document 18 Filed 01/21/16…

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2019 J.L. amicus – residential placement based purely on truancy

…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-…

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Petitioners’ Brief

Commonwealth of Pa. Med. Prof’l Liab. Catastrophe Loss Fund, 763 A.2d 945, 952 (Pa. Commw. Ct. 2000); Heinly v. Commonwealth, 621 A.2d 1212, 1215 n.5 (Pa. Commw. Ct. 1993). ARGUMENT…

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