School to Prison Pipeline for Children with Disabilities
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…
MoreChild 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…
More…of the class action settlement, is hereby GRANTED. The Court makes the following findings of fact and conclusions of law under Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure 1702, 1708, and 1709…
More1, at 30-32. 13 Id. at 20-22. 14 Education Week Research Center, EdCounts Database, available at http://www.edweek.org/rc/2007/06/07/ edcounts.html. 15 losen & skiBA, supra note 11; AdvAncement Project, supra note 1,…
MoreChronology of the case The lawsuit went to trial in Commonwealth Court beginning Nov. 12, 2021. The trial lasted for nearly four months. Post-trial proceedings will culminate in oral argument…
More… Pennsylvania’s incarceration rate has risen from 50 prisoners per 100,000 residents in 1970 to 372 per 100,000 in 2008, requiring the construction of 18 new prisons since 1980. Specific…
Moresuburban, and rural districts are included in the long-anticipated suit, which names as respondents Gov. Corbett, acting Education Secretary Carolyn Dumaresq, and legislative leaders. The Philadelphia School District, a state-run…
More…10/2/2014, 11/3/2014, 11/7/2014, 11/10/2014, 11/12/2014, 1/21/2015, 1/22/2015, 1/23/2015, 1/26/2015, 1/27/2015, 1/28/2015, 1/30/2015, 2/23/2015, 2/27/2015, 3/17/2015, 3/23/2015, 3/25/2015, 3/26/2015, 3/31/2015, 4/6/2015 and 4/7/2015 CLOSED HEARING ODR File No. 15166-13-14 Parties to…
Moreof the child. The EDM must also make specific recommendations to the judge regarding the timeliness and appropriateness of the child’s educational placement, transition 1 20 U.S.C. § 1400 et…
More…implementing Act 1 co-produced by ELC and Juvenile Law Center PA Department of Education guidance on Act 1 Act 1 Self-Advocacy Tool: Request for Assignment of an Act 1 Point…
More…to classify an everyday object as a weapon when it is possessed by a student of color. 1 S.A. by H.O. v. Pittsburgh Pub. Sch. Dist., 160 A.3d at 945….
More…Arch Street Cira Centre Philadelphia, PA 19104-2808 (215) 994-4000 (215) 994-2222 (Fax) [email protected] [email protected] Counsel for Amici Curiae 18 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that on February 17, 2015,…
More…of teachers and other professionals, id. §§ 11-1101 to 12-1268; student attendance, id. §§ 13-1301 to 13- 1345; school health, id., §§ 14-1401 to 14-1422; and curriculum. Id., §§ 15-1501…
More…168 A.3d 374 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2017) ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… 2 Thomas v. Grimm, 155 A.3d 128 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2017) ……………………………………..10 William Penn S.D. v. Dept. of Education, 170 A.3d 414 (Pa. 2017)…
More…Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools and the NAACP Pennsylvania State Conference. The Commonwealth Court ruling was the latest in a long line of Pennsylvania state court decisions basically…
More…The complaint was filed by six school districts, seven parents, the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools and the NAACP Pennsylvania State Conference, who said they plan to appeal…
More…“Petitioner school districts don’t have sufficient funding to hire desperately needed teachers and support staff, repair crumbling facilities, or provide critical educational programming. This problem will not be fixed until…
More…than an hour late. This caused Student to miss services scheduled for Student at the Center. (J 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26.) 19….
Moreup to its constitutional obligations. The plaintiffs come from large urban districts like Philadelphia and struggling rural districts like Panther Valley in Schuylkill and Carbon Counties, demonstrating that chronic underfunding…
MoreEducation, Education Report of Rule 706 Expert Panel presented in B.H. v. Johnson, 715 F. Supp.1387 (N.D. Ill. 1989), 1991. 10 Molly W. Metzger, et. al., Residential mobility during adolescence:…
More…of Pennsylvania ruled that the school district had violated “clear law” by denying or delaying enrollment to older immigrants and by placing them in Phoenix Academy, a privately run alternative…
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