The historic trial in our fair funding lawsuit in the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court concluded on March 10, 2022 with closing arguments. We have also concluded the post-trial phase of the…
More…2021, and a final annual report by April 1, 2022. If any of the information required for a report in a particular year is available in a document that PDE…
More…in preparation for the 2021-22 trial: • A chronology of the case and relevant court documents can be found here. • Read our 2021 Q & A about the lawsuit. •…
MoreIn January 2022, the Pennsylvania General Assembly enacted Act 1 of 2022 (Act 1) (24 P.S. § 13-1331.1), which seeks to remove educational and graduation barriers for students who experience…
More…2021 through June 2023, there have been more than 5,894 decisions to ban books in public schools nationally and 644 of those instances were in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania ranks third among…
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MoreChild advocates from across Pennsylvania sent a letter to the General Assembly in April 2021 advocating for a $200 million increase for special education funding in the 2021-22 budget and…
MorePennsylvania’s state legislature approved a new budget for 2021-22 but chose to put billions into a Rainy Day Fund rather than addressing the urgent need to address adequacy gaps facing…
More…12, 2021, in our historic lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania’s school funding system, William Penn School District et al. v. Pennsylvania Department of Education et al. The judge announced the new trial date…
More…Education Committee on April 23, 2021. She spoke at a hearing on K-12 education reforms in Western Pennsylvania, the last of three hearings that the committee has held for different…
MoreOn April 23, 2021 the Education Law Center submitted comments to the Federal Communications Commission urging the agency to implement its newly adopted Emergency Connectivity Fund in a manner that…
More…on Civil Rights in April 2021. The report, which draws on testimony from 20 local and national experts at two public briefing sessions, is called “Disparate and Punitive Impact of…
More…of maintaining critical due process protections in PA school discipline proceedings, especially for Black girls, students with disabilities, and LGBTQ students. This case will be argued on May 18, 2021….
More…more state revenue for schools, resulting in better academic and life outcomes for children.” Read her full column from the public interest page of the Sept. 20, 2021, Legal Intelligencer….
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