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…
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…
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…
More…oF leArning: the Forum For educAtion & democrAcY’s recommendAtions For the reAuthoriZAtion oF eseA (2010), available at http:// www.forumforeducation.org/files/u48/FED_Short_Paper_ on_ESEA.pdf; BroAder Bolder APProAch to educAtion, school AccountABilitY: A BroAder, Bolder…
More…response to the failure of Pennsylvania’s legislature to adequately and equitably fund public education, was remanded to Commonwealth Court in September 2017 by the state Supreme Court, which ruled that…
More…linked with one another. 25 Importantly, educational inequality is associated with less general public trust, trust in democracy, and trust of other citizens [24,128]. Greater levels of educational inequality cause…
More…suburban, 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…through February 2015, the Student received 3.5 to 4.5 hours of homebound instruction per week. S-56. 59. In February of 2015, the Student returned to LA with bus transportation and…
More…living facilities, residential treatment facilities, and hospitals—often have no adult in their lives to serve in this role. This can be true of youth in the delinquency system as well….
More…work is available from the Advancement Project and ACLU of Pennsylvania. Black and Brown communities, hardest hit by the coronavirus, have also borne the brunt of school disruption, receiving diminished…
More…that it was within the District’s discretion to find that a pencil constituted a weapon under Act 26. The court unanimously ruled that for purposes of the Pennsylvania School Code,…
More…student services must be “an integral part of the instructional program at all levels of the school system.” 22 Pa. Code § 12.41(c)(1); planned instruction in “[v]ocational-technical education, . ….
More…education in Pennsylvania violates the state Constitution. The Petitioners are six school districts, the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools, several parents of school-age children, and the Pennsylvania State…
More…AND STANDARD OF REVIEW In ruling upon preliminary objections, the Court must accept as true all well- pleaded material allegations in the petition for review, as well as all inferences…
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…and the new cab company made the cab available on February 21, 2017. The meeting was scheduled for March 2017. (J 24, 25.) 17. Repeatedly during the period from September…
More…up 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…
More…to be incarcerated than youth who complete high school. Youth find their worlds upended by the stress and chaos of homelessness. They desperately need the stability, structure, and hope of…
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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