TGNC students to thrive in their educational environments, whereas hostile and negative school climates are associated with severe educational and health consequences. Read our open letter. Lancaster Online’s editorial board…
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Morecurrent state-calculated adequacy gaps. 60 calculating the district’s adequacy target, the adequacy gap has only widened since 2010–11. B. Panther Valley’s adequacy target for the 2010–11 school year, as determined…
More…for graduation as defined by the placing district 53 b. clear and measurable academic performance goals, established after administering required academic assessments described in AEDY Guidelines. Plans for individual students’…
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Morerational fix to the broken calculation for charter school special education funding. This article appeared in the December 2014 issue of the Philadelphia Public School Notebook. Read the article online….
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MoreDecember 7, 2015 – The Philadelphia Citizen (Online) – BY ROXANNE PATEL SHEPELAVY Even before the video emerged this fall of a South Carolina high school girl being thrown to…
MoreAcademy, Arise Academy, and Community Academy of Philadelphia. In total, these school closures would erase 5,662 charter seats from the city – a number much higher than the amount of…
Morereading and math; ◦ high levels of grade retention and drop-out; ◦ far lower high school and college graduation rates. See National Fact Sheet on Foster Care and Education from…
Morepercent fail academically, and only one-third read at grade level in middle school. Tragically, these students are nine times more likely to repeat a grade and four times more likely…
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More12, 2016; December 19, 2016; December 20, 2016; December 22, 2016; January 11, 2017; January 13, 2017; and January 17, 2017. The District failed to formally investigate any of these…
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