alternative education programs that are not formally approved by the Commonwealth as meeting certain requirements. o These “unapproved” programs often have one or more of the following features: in a…
More…(Mar. 1, 2018), https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/01/school-shootings-security-guns-431424 mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/01/school-shootings-security-guns-431424 https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/01/school-shootings-security-guns-431424 metal detectors and X-ray machines, with a semiautomatic handgun that was only discovered when the student flashed it in the hallway later…
More…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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Morerural 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…
Morethat document.[footnoteRef:22] [22: A copy of the comments from January 2016 is available at http://www.ndrn.org/images/Documents/Issues/Education/ESSA/Comments_on_Title_I_ESEA_Foster_Care_Provisions.pdf.] i. Define when a youth has “come into contact with both the child welfare and…
More…required Completing Senior Project ◼ MUST be documented and approved Graduating through IEP ◼ Decision of IEP Team ◼ Must be accomplished through local school district Who…
Moreat 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…
MoreEstablished state’s responsibility under IDEA to ensure access to adequate range of placements for children with special education needs; resulted in new interagency requirements and protocol that continues…
More…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…
MoreAlfano ( 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…
Moreserving 2,246 students have come offline – a number slightly less than the new charter seats added. But it gets more complicated. The district does not assume that all of…
More…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…
More…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…
More…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.,…
More1 January 9, 2017 Chairman Grassley United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510-6050 Ranking Member Feinstein United States Senate Committee on the…
More…Form (“Bullying Complaint”), which is the District’s official complaint form. Eventually, having gotten nowhere with her direct complaints to SCHOOL officials and Principal XX, PARENT began exhausting the chain of…
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More…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-…
MoreCommonwealth 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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