Lindsay Burrill-VanDellen in Legal Intelligencer: PA School Districts Are Hurting: Cyber Charter School Funding Reform Is a Must.
How are charter schools funded? And how does that funding impact public school districts in Pennsylvania?
Lindsay Burrill-VanDellen published an article in the Legal Intelligencer discussing the detrimental impact the current charter school funding scheme in Pennsylvania has on public school districts in the state and the importance of passing cyber charter school funding reform. “Because of the lower cost for cyber charter schools to educate students and the increased tuition payments made by school districts [to cyber charter schools], charter schools can—and are—making a profit off of what the districts are required to pay, while school districts are suffering significant hits to their limited budgets that they cannot recoup.”
The full article is available here.
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Lindsay Burrill-VanDellen in Legal Intelligencer: Biden v. Nebraska: Apolitical Judiciary or a Political Judiciary?
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Biden administration implemented a student loan forgiveness program that would have brought significant financial relief to millions of borrowers across the nation. But the Supreme Court struck down the program in 2023.
Lindsay Burrill-VanDellen published an article in the Legal Intelligencer exploring the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Biden v. Nebraska, 600 U.S. 477 (2023). The Court’s decision, which ruled Biden’s loan forgiveness unconstitutional, “further unveiled a U.S Supreme Court willing to engage in questionable legal analyses and stand in the place of other branches of government to garner an outcome favorable to its own political ideologies.”
The full article is available here.
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Laura Raphael and Dave Berney in Legal Intelligencer: High Court Applies ‘Substantial Disruption’ Standard for Off-Campus Cyber Speech
When can public schools regulate students’ off-campus speech?
Laura Raphael and David Berney published an article in the Legal Intelligencer exploring the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Mahanoy v. B.L., 594 U.S. ___ (2021). The Court in Mahanoy balanced students’ First Amendments rights and schools’ need to maintain order in their classrooms and held that a “substantial disruption” to school activities standard still applies, with less deference to schools regulating off-campus speech relative to speech on campus. The article explains the Court’s reasons for scrutinizing regulations of off-campus speech: “a school’s in loco parentis standing is not likely to apply; student speech would be regulated all 24 hours of the day if schools regulated both on-campus and off-campus speech, and ‘public schools are the nurseries of democracy’ and thus schools themselves have an interest in prompting off-campus speech.”
The full article is available here.
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Robin Lipp in Legal Intelligencer: A Conflict of Interest in Evaluations for Children with Special Needs
Parents of children with special needs, and their attorneys, are often baffled by the poor quality of public educational evaluations. And those evaluations are key to setting the services that a child with special needs will receive in school, known as the child’s individualized education program (IEP).
In the latest issue of the Legal Intelligencer, Attorney Robin Lipp discusses a conflict of interest that contributes to this problem. Public school districts test a child’s needs, and then pay to meet the needs they identify. The fewer the needs, the less the school must pay. The best way out of this jam is to have an independent public agency conduct the evaluations in the first place. Removing the bad incentives would be a first step to better evaluations. You can read the full article here.
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Heather J. Hulit in Legal Intelligencer: The Role of Lawyers in a Time of Unrest
With uprisings against police brutality in the headlines, what roles can attorneys play to address injustice? In December 2020, Attorney Heather J. Hulit published an article in the Legal Intelligencer exploring the vital roles that lawyers can play to serve the public good while acknowledging our limits. From ensuring that the adversarial process works when one side lacks resources, to impact litigation and community lawyering, lawyers have been and should be servants of greater causes. In the present moment, it is critical for attorneys to reflect on what they can do to support change.
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Robin Lipp in Legal Intelligencer: Workers with Disabilities Still Face Federally Approved Wage Discrimination
Thirty years after the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), workers with disabilities still face discrimination in employment. Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act—a relic from the 1930s—allows employers to pay lower wages to workers with disabilities. After years of unconscionable business practices authorized under the law, it is past time for the 14(c) program to end.
In collaboration with co-author Justin Salisbury, an advocate for the rights of blind people, Robin Lipp published an article in the Legal Intelligencer explaining the history of the program, its poor and discriminatory results, and a direction for the future.
You can access the article here.
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Heather J. Hulit in Legal Intelligencer: Disproportionality Regulations in IDEA and Why They Are Not Effective for Reducing Bias
Attorney Heather J. Hulit published an article in the Legal Intelligencer arguing that there is a dual problem with the identification of minority students for special education under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
Policymakers have long recognized that minority students are inappropriately over-represented in special education, a problem known as “disproportionality” that the IDEA requires states to monitor and address. But Ms. Hulit argues that there is a less appreciated side to this problem. Due to the long shadow of systemic racism in the United States, minority students are also exposed to environmental risk factors at disproportionate rates that influence their health and the need for supports in school. In fact, compared to white peers demonstrating some of the same red flags that might trigger identification as a child with special needs, Black children are significantly less likely to be classified as such. This generates another form of disproportionality: the under-identification of Black children as students eligible for special education. She argues that both of these patterns suggest the need to confront systemic racism in the United States and implement universal screening for children with special needs.
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Berney & Sang Wins Pennsylvania Supreme Court Case Vindicating Children’s Rights
For Immediate Release: September 22, 2020
Contact: David Berney; Berney & Sang; 215.564.1030; djberney@berneylaw.com
Pennsylvania Supreme Court vindicates children’s rights
Holds that bullying victims have until 6 months after their 18th birthday to bring discrimination claims under the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act.
Philadelphia, PA.: Last week, in a long-awaited decision, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that bullying victims have until six months after their 18th birthday to bring discrimination complaints under the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act.
The successful appeal in the case Nicole B. v. School District of Philadelphia challenged the short time window children have to file a complaint under the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act. The normal deadline for adults is six months. Whether that six-month time period is “tolled” – or paused – for a child was an open question.
The lawsuit arises from a fourth grader’s horrifying experiences at the William C. Bryant School in West Philadelphia where he was bullied, harassed, and ultimately raped. The harassment started in 2011 when three classmates started bullying the boy because he did not conform to male stereotypes. The bullying was also racially charged. Every day the classmates called him names like “fa****,” “homo,” “b****,” “d*** eater,” “and n****r.” They beat him, kicked him, and threatened to kill him. They forced him to watch a video of two men having sex and to simulate sex with a flagpole while onlooking students laughed.
When school officials failed to intervene, the classmates continued to harass the boy, and ultimately raped him in a school bathroom. Busy addressing the emotional fallout, the parent did not file a PHRA complaint within six months. After the rape, Berney & Sang, a civil rights law firm, filed a lawsuit against the School District of Philadelphia alleging that the District violated the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act (PHRA) by ignoring the harassment.
The Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas ruled that the administrative complaint was untimely because of the six-month statute of limitations, and the Commonwealth Court affirmed. But the state Supreme Court overturned that ruling.
“We are thrilled with the Supreme Court’s decision,” said David J. Berney, the lead attorney on the case. “The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has recognized how unfair it is to demand that a child’s claims be filed within six months when many children do not even disclose the abuse within six months, let alone have parents who think to file a complaint within that time period. This is a great victory for children.”
“We know from our work that many schoolchildren subject to pervasive discriminatory harassment based on race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability,” said Kristina Moon, staff attorney at the Education Law Center, which filed an amicus brief in the case. “Unfortunately the harassment of students of color and students who are gay, bisexual, or transgender and kids who don’t conform to sex stereotypes has increased, and it’s too often treated less seriously by school officials than the bullying of their white, straight, gender-conforming peers. By recognizing that minor children should not be subjected to a short, 180-day statute of limitations in filing claims with the PA Human Relations Commission, the court has affirmed the right of students and former students to challenge wrongful racial discrimination, sexual harassment, and other discriminatory conduct in schools.” Joining in that amicus brief were Juvenile Law Center, Public Interest Law Center, Women’s Law Project, Community Legal Services of Philadelphia, and Professor Emily Suski. The Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates and the Coalition Against Rape also filed amicus briefs.
Contact:
David Berney; Berney & Sang; 215.564.1030; djberney@berneylaw.com
Victory: U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to maintain IDEA obligations for states
Parents of children with disabilities and their advocates pushed Secretary DeVos to maintain IDEA obligations for states during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yesterday, we won.
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, enacted March 27, 2020, gave the Secretary 30 days to issue a report to Congress with her “recommendations on any additional waivers under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.” With school systems poised to seize any opportunity for financial relief from the crisis, the risk of statewide IDEA waivers emerged as an existential threat to the rights of children with disabilities during the pandemic.
Parents and advocates quickly mobilized, sending word to their representatives opposing waivers of states’ obligations, even during a pandemic, and offering examples of school districts responding creatively to educate all students under the new circumstances. The U.S. Department of Education heeded parents’ concerns, announcing on April 27, 2020 that it would not seek authority from Congress to waive the core requirements of the IDEA.
In her Report to Congress, Secretary DeVos was “heartened to see many positive examples across the nation of teachers, schools, LEAs, States, as well as Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) agencies, rising to meet the needs of those who rely on them.” She concluded that schools “can, and must, provide education to all students, including children with disabilities.” As a result, the “Department is not requesting waiver authority for any of the core tenets of the IDEA or Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, most notably a free appropriate public education (FAPE) in the least restrictive environment (LRE).”
The Secretary’s decision comes as a welcome bright spot in the special education news.
Berney & Sang is grateful to all parents and advocates who took time to contact their representatives about IDEA waivers.
For ongoing updates concerning special education in Philadelphia and resources for parents, check out our COVID-19 page.
Heather J. Hulit in Legal Intelligencer: The Problem with Compensatory Education as an IDEA Remedy and the Solution
Associate attorney Heather J. Hulit published an article in the Legal Intelligencer arguing that the way schools distribute compensatory education is rife with delays and unexpected denials. In addition to the negative impact this has on children, it limits the capacity of special education litigation to deter schools from violating students’ rights. She argues that there is a simple solution to this problem—third-party trusts.
You can access the article here.
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Special Education in the Pandemic: April Update on the Philadelphia Public Schools and Resources for Parents
[Note: This page was current as of April 2020–Please visit the Philadelphia School District’s website for current information.]
During this unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, our public schools need to show creativity and perseverance to minimize disruptions to learning. This is especially true for the most vulnerable students, including students with special needs, who stand to lose the most from an extended absence from school.
While Pennsylvania school buildings are closed for the remainder of the school year due to COVID-19, Governor Wolf signed a law requiring school districts to provide parents with written notice of an individualized plan to ensure a free and appropriate public education (FAPE) for each student with special needs. The law also requires every school to make a good faith effort to offer continuity of education using alternative methods while schools are physically closed, and to post their plans for continuity of education online.
The School District of Philadelphia (SDP) has published an outline of its continuity of education plan on its website, as well as guidance on how it plans to comply with the state law and provide education remotely. SDP recently released a more comprehensive continuity of education plan describing how planned instruction will resume, beginning on May 4, 2020, using Google classroom. SDP’s plan modifies expectations for students and teachers in the new environment. For example, while assignments after May 4 may be graded, grades in the final term of the school year can only improve a student’s grade point average.
As of April 20, 2020, SDP has provided Digital Learning resources for all grade levels.
What does SDP’s Digital Learning Plan mean for students with special needs?
SDP has detailed its expectations for special education teachers to provide remote lessons, and staff-members are also expected to participate in virtual IEP meetings and to continue writing IEPs and evaluation reports. To help close the gap in digital access, SDP is loaning Chromebooks to families without a computer at home. SDP is also coordinating with internet service providers to provide free or low-cost WiFi access to facilitate remote learning.
Further information about SDP’s unfolding plans is being posted here, under the Remote Learning & Teaching tab.
Special education due process hearings will be conducted virtually.
Berney & Sang will continue to post information as we learn more.
Resources
We are also aware of the following public resources for parents:
- SDP has special education and english learner resources available
- SDP is providing access to online learning guides, as well as online AP classes and review sessions
- The Pennsylvania Department of Education has english-learner resources for educators, families, and students
- WHYY has free resources and activities for grades 3-12
- SDP’s coronavirus updates and resources are available here
- Learn about options for free or low-cost WiFi here.
The following resources are also available to parents:
- The Educating All Learners Alliance, a new collaboration among special education and child rights groups, has launched a library of expert-curated resources and tools for remote learning. Click here for direct access to their resources and guidance page.
- The Kinney Center will be offering free online classes for students with autism
- First Children Services is offering one-to-one/small group live instruction through video conferencing via its Distance Learning Home Instruction Program (contact Susan Goldman, Director of Community Educational Services, at sgoldman@firstchildrenservices.com)
- The National Association for Gifted Children is offering free webinars and live chats, as well as a curated list of PreK-12 enrichment resources
- Khan Academy has free resources and daily schedules for students ages 2-18
- Free printable workbooks for pre-K and elementary school students are available on Education.com
- The Notebook is tracking lesser-known online learning resources for parents and teachers
- Philadelphia Young Playwrights is offering virtual resources for students and families at home
- Scholastic is offering day-by-day projects for kids learning at home
- Team Tutor is offering online tutoring services for students
- Fusion Academy is offering online tutoring and virtual classes for students
- Carnegie Mellon University is offering a free interactive high school computer science curriculum online and daily webinars for educators interested in learning how to use it
And teachers have access to these resources too:
- Kahoot! is offering free access to educational games to enable distance learning
- Kialo is a free tool for teachers to facilitate remote classroom discussions
- SDP teachers have access to online courses and adaptive instructional programs
Parents should also consider contacting the organizations listed on our Helpful Organizations page.
Dave Berney Argues for Rights of Minors Facing School Discrimination before PA Supreme Court
When a child faces discrimination, does the child’s right to sue depend on whether a parent takes prompt action, or may the child wait until adulthood and sue then? On March 10, 2020, in oral arguments before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Dave Berney, Esq., argued that the limitations period must stop for minors facing discrimination until they become adults and gain the legal capacity to sue.
The Court heard arguments on two questions in Nicole B. v. School District of Philadelphia: (1) whether Pennsylvania’s general purpose minority tolling statute, 42 Pa. C.S. § 5533(b)(i), applies to complaints filed with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission (PHRC); and (2) whether the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act (PHRA) itself, under 43 Pa.S. § 962(e), operates to toll the limitations period for minors.
In this case, a fourth-grader was the victim of discrimination, sexual harassment, and rape in school, facilitated by the school’s misconduct. But it took more than six months, the relevant time limit for adults, for a parent to file a PHRC complaint against the school district. Despite the language of Pennsylvania’s general purpose minority tolling statute—minors “shall have the same time for commencing an action after attaining majority as is allowed to others”—the school district argued that the PHRC complaint fell outside the scope of the statute’s protections. And, despite the language of the PHRA itself—allowing “equitable tolling”—the school district argued that minority tolling was outside the scope of that statute as well, leaving the child victim without legal recourse.
Mr. Berney argued for the child’s right to benefit from both the general purpose minority tolling statute and the PHRA’s equitable tolling provision. Relying on the text of both statutes, legislative intent, and longstanding principles of statutory construction, he argued that both statutes must be understood to protect the rights of minors facing discrimination in school.
With the rights of children in the Commonwealth at stake, Berney & Sang will post an update here when the Court issues its opinion.
Robin Lipp in Legal Intelligencer: Why Philadelphia Public Schools Need More State Funding
This week, associate attorney Robin Lipp published an article in the Legal Intelligencer surveying distressing signs in Philadelphia’s public schools. The article concludes that Philadelphia needs more state funds to address its basic problems, and that an ongoing lawsuit under the Pennsylvania Constitution will clarify the state’s legal obligation to provide adequate and equitable funding.
You can access the article here.
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Berney Delivers Win for Client: Family Prevails at Due Process, Obtaining Tuition and Compensatory Education
This month, a family represented by partner David J. Berney prevailed in a special education due process hearing before the Pennsylvania Office of Dispute Resolution. The family sued their child’s school district, alleging that it violated the child’s right to a free and appropriate public education under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. With Dave’s assistance, the family obtained private-school tuition reimbursement and compensatory education services.
In the coming weeks, the Office of Dispute Resolution will post the decision, C.K. v. School District of Philadelphia, here.
Attorney Robin Lipp, Former Law Clerk to U.S. District Judge Cathy Bissoon, Joins Berney & Sang
Berney & Sang is excited to announce that Robin Lipp, Esq., is joining the firm as an associate attorney. He brings to the firm his recent experience clerking for the Honorable Cathy Bissoon of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
Robin earned his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School and his Master of Public Policy degree from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in 2014. During his time in law school, Robin served as an Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. After graduating, he practiced as a legal fellow at the Vera Institute of Justice, before working at the Laura and John Arnold Foundation as a Manager for Results-Driven Government and then commencing his clerkship.
In his free time, Robin engages with local politics in Philadelphia, supporting candidates who seek to build a just and equitable society. He has published an article in the Harvard Law and Policy Review on policing protests, and plans to continue writing on topics at the intersection of law and public policy.
Mr. Lipp can be reached at rdlipp@berneylaw.com.
Golembiewski in Legal Intelligencer: Compensatory Education Can Help ELLs
Last week, senior associate Kevin Golembiewski published Compensatory Education Can Help Realize Promise to English Language Learners in the Legal Intelligencer. In the article, Kevin explained that the Equal Educational Opportunities Act (EEOA), a federal law that guarantees English Language Learners (ELLs) equal educational opportunity, allows courts to award ELLs compensatory education when school districts deny them equal opportunity. This is critical, Kevin stated, because compensatory-education awards can serve as a powerful tool not only for remediating discrimination against ELLs but also for incentivizing compliance with the EEOA.
The Legal Intelligencer is Pennsylvania’s premier publication for legal news. Kevin and partner David J. Berney author an education law column for the Intelligencer.
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Commonwealth Court to Hear Wible v. School District of Philadelphia En Banc
The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court announced today that it will hear en banc Wible v. School District of Philadelphia, Berney & Sang’s landmark student-on-student bullying and harassment case. The Court scheduled oral argument for November 13, 2019 at 930AM in the Commonwealth Court’s Philadelphia courtroom.
In the case, Berney Sang represents Amanda Wible, a Philadelphia student who was bullied and harassed because of her sex for more than half a decade. Each day, classmates assaulted her, spat on her, destroyed her schoolwork, spread sexual rumors about her, and called her “bitch,” “she-he,” “dyke,” “fag,” “slut,” and other sexual epithets. The District did nothing, perpetuating the harassment through inaction.
Amanda was ultimately forced to drop out of the District and enroll in a cyber charter school. Thereafter, Berney & Sang represented her in a lawsuit against the District, alleging that it violated her rights under the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act by subjecting her to a sexually hostile school environment.
Last year, the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas ruled in Amanda’s favor. In a landmark decision, it confirmed that under state law, Pennsylvania’s public schools have a duty to address discriminatory student-on-student harassment.
The School District, however, appealed to the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court, and in May 2019, Berney & Sang filed Amanda’s brief defending her verdict. You can read it here.
The appeal has garnered national attention. The Education Law Center and Women’s Law Project filed an amicus brief in support of Amanda, with public-interest organizations from across the country signing on. The organizations include:
- The American Association of University Women American Civil Liberties Union
- The ACLU of Pennsylvania
- Atlanta Women for Equality
- California Women’s Law Center Education Law Center
- End Rape on Campus
- Gender Justice
- Gwen’s Girls, Inc.
- The Juvenile Law Center
- Legal Voice
- The National Council of Jewish Women Pittsburgh National Crittenton
- The National Women’s Law Center
- The Pennsylvania Chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW)
- The Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape
- The Philadelphia NOW Education Fund
- The Southwest Women’s Law Center
- WOAR-Philadelphia Center Against Sexual Violence
- Women Against Abuse, Inc.
- Women and Girls Foundation of Southwestern Pennsylvania
- The Women’s Law Center of Maryland, Inc.
The Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, the state’s anti-discrimination agency, also filed an amicus brief in support of Amanda.
Berney & Sang Counsels Amicus Brief for Leading Learning-Disabilities Nonprofits
This month, Berney & Sang filed an amicus brief in C.S. v. Butte School District, a special education case pending before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Berney & Sang filed the brief on behalf of the National Center for Learning Disabilities, the Advocacy Institute, the Council for Learning Disabilities, and the Learning Rights Law Center. The brief asks the Ninth Circuit to rule for C.S., a child with learning disabilities.
The brief argues that the Butte School District violated C.S.’s rights under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) by failing to investigate and identify his learning disabilities. Here’s an excerpt from the brief:
The IDEA requires school districts to perform comprehensive evaluations of children with disabilities. This requirement is critical for children like C.S. who have a specific learning disability. Children with learning disabilities present with a variety of learning challenges and unique needs. Without understanding the nuances of a child’s learning disability, school districts cannot develop a reasonably calculated educational program for him—any program developed without such an understanding amounts to guesswork.
Here, Butte School District made no effort to understand C.S.’s learning disabilities, thus failing to take the first basic step required to provide him an appropriate program. That failure doomed his educational program and violated the IDEA.
You can read the full brief here.
Hulit in Legal Intelligencer: Dependency Court is No Place for Truant Kids
Associate Heather J. Hulit knows dependency court. Before joining Berney & Sang, she served as a Child Advocate Attorney for seven years, representing children in Philadelphia dependency court. Like other Pennsylvania counties, Philadelphia sends kids who struggle with school attendance to dependency court. Heather’s experiences showed her that this practice is misguided.
She explains why in her new Legal Intelligencer article, Dependency Court is No Place for Truant Kids. You can read the article here.
Sang Presents at School Law Conference
This month, partner Jennifer Sang presented at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s School Law Conference. The Institute selected Ms. Sang and other well-known education attorneys to present on topics ranging from bullying and harassment to charter-school accountability. Ms. Sang presented on special-education claims that arise when charter schools shut down and how courts have approached the claims.
