Addressing Attendance Barriers (‘Truancy’)
Welcome to ELC’s portal for all things attendance and truancy. Below you’ll find links to information, parent resources, and publications relating to attendance barriers, absenteeism, and the truancy…
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Testimony on the Need for Adequate, Equitable Funding – to the Pa. House Democratic Policy Committee (9/1/21)
Education Law Center executive director Deborah Gordon Klehr presented testimony on Pennsylvania school funding policy to the Pennsylvania House Democratic Policy Committee on September 1, 2021. Klehr’s testimony on behalf…
MoreCenter Students Over Profits in Chester Upland
In 2021, Chester Upland School District faces the potential outsourcing of some or all of its schools, The court-appointed receiver for the district is now implementing a court-authorized request for…
MoreHelp Make PA Schools More Supportive of Immigrant, Refugee Families
…March 15, 2021. Welcoming Schools Campaign Student Surveys English: http://bit.ly/Student-WSC-English Spanish: http://bit.ly/Student-WSC-Spanish Mandarin Chinese: http://bit.ly/Student-WSC-Chinese Vietnamese: http://bit.ly/Student-WSC-Vietnamese Arabic: http://bit.ly/Student-WSC-Arabic Haitian Creole: http://bit.ly/Student-WSC-HaitianCreole Somali: http://bit.ly/Student-WSC-Somali Welcoming Schools Campaign Parent Surveys English: http://bit.ly/Parent-WSC-English Spanish: http://bit.ly/Parent-WSC-Spanish Mandarin Chinese: http://bit.ly/Parent-WSC-Chinese Vietnamese: http://bit.ly/Parent-WSC-Vietnamese Arabic: http://bit.ly/Parent-WSC-Arabic Haitian Creole: http://bit.ly/Parent-WSC-HaitianCreole…
MoreELC Testifies on Barriers to Education Success before PA Senate Education Committee
…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…
MoreELC Files Comments with FCC to Ensure Equity in Implementation of Emergency Connectivity Fund
On 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…
MoreReport: Exclusionary Discipline Harms Students of Color, Students with Disabilities, and LGBTQ Students
…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…
MoreELC Testifies on Reopening Philadelphia Schools
On February 17, 2021, ELC staff testified at a Philadelphia City Council Hearing on safely reopening schools and bridging the digital divide. Read ELC’s testimony and recommendations here….
MoreJ.S. v. Manheim Township School District
…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….
More2019 03 14 ELC Testimony to SDP Board Committee re English Learners
…Survey upon their enrollment, but there are many instances where the school districts’ paper forms and online record systems do not accurately and consistently identify a parent as limited English…
MoreELC_schoolfundingreport.2013
…recognized students in poverty may need extra supports and programs. If a state’s base cost was $10,000, for instance, and it applied a 1.5 poverty weight through a formula, each…
MoreCostingOut_PASpecialEd_2_6_09
…with a comprehensive review of available literature to identify education strategies that are likely to be effective. The strategies with appropriate research support were then presented, via an online simulation,…
MoreOpen Letter to Elanco School Board on Importance of Supporting Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Students
…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…
MoreGlen Mills Complaint Exhibits – FINAL
…the Glen Mills Schools in 2013. The former college football player started as a counselor in 1979. But local officials, after reading an earlier version of this story online Wednesday,…
MoreELC_DOJ_AEDYComplaint_8_7_13
…of the Pennsylvania Department of Education, which is accessible online at http://penndata.hbg.psu.edu. 29 See e.g., http://penndata.hbg.psu.edu/BSEReports/Data%20Preview/2011_2012/PDF_Documents/Speced_Quick_Report_Sta http://www.elc-pa.org/AltEdTestimonyKlehr2009.doc http://penndata.hbg.psu.edu/ http://penndata.hbg.psu.edu/BSEReports/Data%20Preview/2011_2012/PDF_Documents/Speced_Quick_Report_State_Final.pdf 9 years, however, the percentage of students with disabilities sent to…
MoreELC_DOJ_AEDYComplaint_8_7_13
…of the Pennsylvania Department of Education, which is accessible online at http://penndata.hbg.psu.edu. 29 See e.g., http://penndata.hbg.psu.edu/BSEReports/Data%20Preview/2011_2012/PDF_Documents/Speced_Quick_Report_Sta http://www.elc-pa.org/AltEdTestimonyKlehr2009.doc http://penndata.hbg.psu.edu/ http://penndata.hbg.psu.edu/BSEReports/Data%20Preview/2011_2012/PDF_Documents/Speced_Quick_Report_State_Final.pdf 9 years, however, the percentage of students with disabilities sent to…
Morebudget press release 2019
…poverty, children of color, children in the foster care and juvenile justice systems, children with disabilities, English learners, LGBTQ students, and children experiencing homelessness. For more information, visit elc-pa.org. https://www.elc-pa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Special-Education-Report-Online.pdf…
MoreELC_SchoolNurseReport_May2013
…as well as school nurses and parents of children with healthcare needs. Based on this information, we developed a brief online survey which was distributed via e-mail to the Pennsylvania…
MoreELC_AltEdPA_FullReport_03_2010
…in AEDY programs. Other recommendations could be carried out through some reworking of existing policies. Still others require legislative or regulatory action, in some instances along lines already taken by…
MoreELC Bullying OCR Complaint redacted
…researching the District’s Bullying Complaint procedures online, PARENT returned to the Education Center and filed both a formal Bullying Complaint and completed an Intake Form at the District’s Office of…
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