In May 2023, Education Law Center PA submitted comments in response to the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed rule on sex discrimination in school athletics under Title IX of the…
More…of Justice, National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence 5 (September 2015), available at https://www.ojjdp.gov/pubs/248547.pdf?ed2f26df2d9c416fbddddd2330a778c6=nnxrpdozn- nzubdzrr&utm_source=youth.gov&utm_medium=federal-links&utm_campaign=reports-and-resources. http://www.theiacp.org/portals/0/pdfs/schoolviolence2.pdf https://www.ojjdp.gov/pubs/248547.pdf?ed2f26df2d9c416fbddddd2330a778c6=nnxrpdozn-nzubdzrr&utm_source=youth.gov&utm_medium=federal-links&utm_campaign=reports-and-resources https://www.ojjdp.gov/pubs/248547.pdf?ed2f26df2d9c416fbddddd2330a778c6=nnxrpdozn-nzubdzrr&utm_source=youth.gov&utm_medium=federal-links&utm_campaign=reports-and-resources 4 Although the perpetrators of the mass shootings that have ravaged…
More…Public schools cannot refuse their presence. Your Right to Opt Out of Instruction • State law permits also parents, guardians to have their children excused from specific instruction that conflicts…
MoreNonprofit law center sends memo blasting “guns in schools” legislation Read the memo: Guns Don’t Belong in Our Schools Philadelphia, PA – Deborah Gordon Klehr, Executive Director…
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More…who are identified as affected by illegal sustance abuse or withdrawal symptoms resulting from prenatal drug exposure; or • with disabilities who are homeless or “wards of the state.” BACKGROUND:…
More…right to “specially designed instruction” – meaning that teachers must adapt the content (what is taught), methodology (how it is taught), or delivery of the curriculum to account for your…
More…right to “specially designed instruction” – meaning that teachers must adapt the content (what is taught), methodology (how it is taught), or delivery of the curriculum to account for your…
More…: Docket No. 587 M.D. 2014 APPLICATION FOR DECISION OF THE APPLICATION IN THE NATURE OF A MOTION TO DISMISS FOR MOOTNESS Pursuant to Pennsylvania Rule of Appellate Procedure 123…
More…Philadelphia’s traditional district schools and proponents of charters — built mainly on the premise that the two sectors aren’t playing by the same rules. Tension between the two have festered…
More…Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools and the state NAACP. The lawsuit claims Pennsylvania has failed to meet its obligation to “provide for the maintenance and support of a…
MoreIn a ruling March 8 by Commonwealth Court, a judge held that two Pennsylvania parents who were among those who filed the landmark lawsuit in 2014 challenging Pennsylvania’s school funding…
More…Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania filed Monday, upholding a lower court’s ruling regarding the Pittsburgh Public Schools’ yearlong suspension of a 10th-grader for using a pencil to stab a classmate multiple…
More…required. It is further averred that, although a ruling on Speaker Turzai’s forthcoming motion for partial summary relief will not foreclose Petitioners’ claim under the Education Clause, a ruling on…
More…the Supreme Court forced a state to fund religious education. The ruling is antithetical to our country’s history and its long-held commitment to a separation between church and state embedded…
More…Child lacks an “IDEA Parent” Family court judge can appoint an Educational Decision Maker (“EDM”) ◼ Juvenile Court Procedural Rules 147 and 1147 – applies to children in BOTH…
MoreCheck out this 7/9/17 national story from NBC News about charter schools. ELC’s Executive Director Deborah Gordon Klehr talks to reporter Craig Melvin about charter schools often failing to serve…
More…Student, NBC News, Oct. 28, 2015, http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/south-carolina- deputy-ben-fields-fired-job-sheriff-n452881. 13 Similarly, in 2013, DOJ entered into a consent decree with the Meridian Municipal Separate School District limiting the use of SROs…
More…seeking a declaration that it was not obligated to enroll G.S. The District Court consolidated the two cases in February 2017. Both parties moved for summary judgment. The District Court…
More…of the level of disruptive behavior . . . , lends support for the hypothesis that there is a bias against Black students in [disciplinary referrals].”); Russel J. Skiba &…
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