…of Child Welfare Report, available at http://www.papartnerships.org/reports/2016_socw/source_files/Pennsylvania%202016%20SOCW.pdf. http://www.ocfcpacourts.us/assets/upload/2015%20Final%20Truancy%20Report(1).pdf http://www.ocfcpacourts.us/childrens-roundtable-initiative/state-roundtable-workgroupscommittees/educational-success-and-truancy-prevention http://www.ocfcpacourts.us/childrens-roundtable-initiative/state-roundtable-workgroupscommittees/educational-success-and-truancy-prevention http://www.papartnerships.org/reports/2016_socw/source_files/Pennsylvania%202016%20SOCW.pdf 3 increase in the number of students experiencing homelessness between the 2011-12 school year to 2013-14 school year, Pennsylvania’s…

…Based on Race, Color, and National Origin → Is your school using race to make any of these decisions? → If two students break the same school rule, does your…

Education Law Center Public Testimony to the National Council on Disability May 5, 2015 My name is Leigh Loman. I am an attorney with the Education Law Center. The Education…

Moreland Township SD Montgomery 119 5.53% 0.1500 2,150.088 $0.00 Baldwin-Whitehall SD Allegheny 220 5.11% 0.5733 4,309.113 $0.00 English Language Learner High Incidence Supplement_x000D_(Sorted by English language learner concentration) Charters To…

…Center has been at the forefront of reforms that ensure equity and access for English Learners (ELs) and limited English proficient (LEP) parents, here in Pittsburgh and across the State….

…my case, what is it that I need to prove? I live where I live, so I really don’t know . . . what [you] 10 Ms. Lloyd’s testimony can…

…Pa. Ass’n of Rural & Small Schs. v. Ridge, 737 A.2d 246 (Pa. 1999)…………………………………………………………………………… 40 Pa. Ass’n of Rural & Small Schs. v. Ridge, No. 11. M.D. 1991, slip op….

…parent of A.M., a minor; BARBARA NEMETH, parent of C.M., a minor; TRACEY HUGHES, parent of P.M.H., a minor; PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION OF RURAL AND SMALL SCHOOLS; and THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION…

…trajectory for the relationships and success they will experience for the rest of their lives, making it crucial that children’s earliest experiences truly foster – and never harm – their…

…where all Philadelphia schoolteachers consider themselves English as a Second Language (ESOL) instructors equipped to meet the needs of English learner and limited English proficient families. The district’s 15,000 English…

…services; financial assistance, e.g., unemployment benefits and public assistance; and public infrastructure, such as road maintenance, availability of utilities and other matters. 22 Nonetheless, strict scrutiny is not applied in…

…“overall state grade” in the nation, including a grade of “B” for school finance, which “analyzes distribution of funding across districts within a state.” Pennsylvania consistently ranks in the top…

…parent of C.M., minor; Tracey Hughes, parent of P.M.H., minor; Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools; and The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People-Pennsylvania State Conference, Petitioners,…

…http://www.edlawcenter.org/ELCPublic/ elcnews_080822_SRAPolicyBrief.pdf; see also educAtion lAw center-PA, imProving “AlternAtive educAtion For disruPtive Youth” in PennsYlvAniA, 15-16 (2010), available at http://www.elc-pa.org/pubs/downloads2010/ ELC_AltEdPA_FullReport.pdf. 5 See, e.g., AdvAncement Project, at 27-29; AmericAn FederAtion…

…charters to have minuscule populations of English learners. Half of the charter schools that were evaluated in the ACEs had an English learner population of 1 percent or less. •A…