…for basic education and a $100 million increase in special education funding, to be distributed to districts through the existing funding formulas. Read our letter, press release, and news coverage….
More…below the average percentage of students with IEPs for all charter schools in Philadelphia. Read our news release here. Read the complaint here. Read media coverage here, here, and here….
More…color. Her testimony urged the General Assembly to increase funding for classroom instruction and target state increases to chronically underfunded communities. Read her testimony here and a news article here….
More…for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System. The report details the problems facing tens of thousands of youth on any given day in our country when it comes to their…
More…LGBTQ+ students) What We’re Fighting: Discrimination in Students’ Access to Bathrooms and Sports Teams, Refusal to Respect Pronouns, Banning Pride Flags, Don’t Say Gay Laws Too often, our schools are…
MoreNewsletter: July 2015 ELC Newsletter: June 2015 ELC Newsletter: May 2015 ELC Newsletter: April 2015 ELC Newsletter: March 2015 ELC Newsletter: February 2015 ELC Newsletter: January 2015 ELC Newsletter: December…
More…A column about the case by our executive director: On school funding, Pennsylvania is not doing its job. That’s why we’re in court. Opinion (PennLive/Patriot News) By Deborah Gordon Klehr…
More…to seek dismissal based on mootness, they fail to dispute in any way the growing disparities between high-wealth and low-wealth districts. Read more in this August 7, 2018, News Release….
MoreOct. 20, 2016 – The Philadelphia Public School Notebook – by Bill Hangley, Jr. This year brought some good news for Katie Christ. “I finally got textbooks!” That’s a welcome…
MoreIn a statement on the Pennsylvania budget, ELC welcomes the news from the General Assembly that state funding for basic education, special education, and pre-K in the coming school year…
More…truancy issues, that may arise. You may also contact the Education Law Center directly by following instructions available here. You can learn more about ELC’s mission here. Parent Resources The…
More…charged after students find her loaded gun in bathroom, Public Opinion (Sept. 13, 2016), https://www.publicopiniononline.com/story/news/2016/09/12/teacher-resigns-after-child-finds-her-loaded-gun- school/90280916/ (last accessed Dec. 20, 2018). Confusing Legal Authority about Security Personnel and the Possession…
MoreDelco News Network quotes ELC Legal Director Maura McInerney in an article on Governor Wolf and Senator Joe Scarnati’s opposing briefs on the legal status of ELC’s school funding lawsuit….
MorePublic News Source quotes ELC Legal Fellow Sean McGrath on the availability of early intervention services in the state of Pennsylvania. Read more here….
Morebeing eliminated, Denton Record Chronicle (June 2015) http://www.dentonrc.com/news/state/2015/06/20/criminal-truancy-courts-for-students-being-eliminated http://youthlaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Truancy-Research.pdf. https://www.texasappleseed.org/sites/default/files/TruancyReport_All_FINAL_SinglePages.pdf http://www.publiccounsel.org/tools/assets/files/Counterproductive-and-Wasteful-Los-Angeles-daytime-curfew-report_FINAL.pdf. 4 • Confine a person in parental relation to a child who is habitually truant only as a last…
More…so critical that the PHRA is available as a tool to root out discriminatory pervasive bullying.” Read the news release here and the brief here. …
More…Legislative respondents continue to oppose the case moving forward; Senator Scarnati filed a brief blaming poor school districts for their own underfunding. Read the joint news release by ELC and…
More…of Philadelphia (“District”) to promptly and appropriately address pervasive and severe bullying of students with disabilities as exemplified by the stories of multiple students. Read the news release here. …
More…released a statement on the Pa. Department of Education’s finding that the Philadelphia School District violated the rights of at least 800 incoming Kindergarten students. Read the news release here….
More…Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (“Section 504”), schools reflexively refer students and their families to Truancy Court—resulting in additional lost instruction time. Not only is the referral to Truancy…
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