2025-08-13T07:56:25-05:00 2024-09-30 WITHUMSMITHBROWN PC 1835 MARKET STREET SUITE 1710 PHILADELPHIA PA 191032945 990 2023-10-01 232581102 Education Law Center - PA % MANAGEMENT EDUC 2152386970 1800 John F Kennedy Blvd Suite 190 Philadelphia PA 19103 DEBORAH GORDON KLEHR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 2152386970 2025-08-11 true true Richard Ruvelson P00234075 2155462140 2023 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z DEBORAH GORDON KLEHR 1800 John F Kennedy Blvd1900A Philadelphia PA 19103 15366545 false X WWW.ELC-PA.ORG X 1989 PA TO ENSURE ACCESS TO A QUALITY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN IN PENNSYLVANIA 20 20 20 22 0 0 2375137 3834190 431700 449865 48837 248139 1930 2535 2857604 4534729 0 0 0 0 1683993 1877464 72000 72000 231400 681870 638143 2437863 2587607 419741 1947122 8037101 10254719 943685 1004487 7093416 9250232 X THE EDUCATION LAW CENTER'S (ELC) MISSION IS TO ENSURE ACCESS TO A QUALITY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN IN PENNSYLVANIA. OUR PRINCIPAL STRATEGIES INCLUDE DIRECT REPRESENTATION, IMPACT LITIGATION, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, POLICY ADVOCACY AT LOCAL, STATE, AND FEDERAL LEVELS, AND STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS. OVER THE PAST 48 YEARS, ELC HAS BEEN A KNOWN RESOURCE FOR PARENTS, CHILD-SERVING PROFESSIONALS, AND ADVOCATES IN PENNSYLVANIA TO CALL FOR RIGHTS-BASED INFORMATION AND ADVICE REGARDING PUBLIC EDUCATION MATTERS. 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GAAP PRESCRIBES A MINIMUM RECOGNITION THRESHOLD THAT A TAX POSITION IS REQUIRED TO MEET IN ORDER TO BE RECOGNIZED IN THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. ELC BELIEVES THAT IT HAD NO UNCERTAIN TAX POSITIONS AS DEFINED IN GAAP. PART XI, LINE 2D: CHANGE IN VALUE OF CHARITABLE REMAINDER UNITRUSTS $126,001 X X X X X X X true ELEVATE LLC 2424 19TH ST NW WASHINGTON DC 20009 Grant Writing false 0 72000 -72000 0 72000 -72000 PA ANNUAL EVENT 580601 515722 64879 64879 0 580601 515722 64879 64879 64879 X false false false false false false false false false DEBORAH GORDON KLEHR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 150469 0 0 0 0 0 3000 0 24628 0 178097 0 0 0 Maura I Mcinerney Legal Director 138330 0 0 0 0 0 3000 0 20187 0 161517 0 0 0 FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 11B: THE 990 IS THROUGHLY REVIEWED BY ELC'S ACCOUNTANT, THE DIRECTOR OF FINANCE, AND THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. AN ELECTRONIC COPY OF THE FINAL 990 IS PROVIDED TO BOARD MEMBERS PRIOR TO FILING. FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 12C BOARD MEMBERS ARE REQUIRED TO ANNUALLY SIGN A DISCLOSURE STATEMENT DETAILING ANY SITUATIONS THAT MIGHT GIVE RISE TO A CONFLICT. THE POLICY IS REGULARLY MONITORED BY THE DIRECTOR OF FINANCE AND OPERATIONS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 15: THE BOARD SETS COMPENSATION OF THE AGENCY'S PAID EXECUTIVE STAFF USING AVAILABLE DATA INCLUDING A COMPARISON OF SALARIES AND BENEFITS PAID TO THOSE OF LIKE SIZED, OPERATED AND STRUCTURED NONPROFITS. THE AGENCY HAS NO OTHER "KEY EMPLOYEES" AS DEFINED BY 990 INSTRUCTIONS. FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION C, LINE 19 GOVERNING DOCUMENTS, FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND POLICY STATEMENTS ARE MADE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC UPON REQUEST. FORM 990, PART XI, LINE 9, CHANGES IN NET ASSETS: CHANGE IN VALUE OF CHARITABLE REMAINDER UNITRUSTS $126,001 FORM 990, PART III, LINE 4A, DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM SERVICE: The Education Law Center's (ELC) mission is to ensure access to a quality public education for all children in Pennsylvania. Our principal strategies include direct representation, impact litigation, community engagement, policy advocacy at local, state, and federal levels, and strategic communications. Over the past 50 years, ELC has been a known resource for parents, child-serving professionals, and advocates in Pennsylvania to call for rights-based information and advice regarding public education matters. We are also a leader in public education advocacy, securing policy changes alongside local and statewide partners. With offices in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, we work statewide to provide both immediate relief to individual students and advance systems-level reforms that benefit thousands of underserved students, focusing on our three priority areas: 1) Ensuring Equal Access to quality public schools: ELC addresses real-time educational barriers and systemic concerns impacting the educational experiences of underserved student populations. Our focus is improving education access for children living in poverty, children with disabilities, children of color, children in the foster care and juvenile justice systems, children experiencing homelessness, linguistically and culturally diverse students and their families, LGBTQ+ gender expansive youth, and children at the intersection of multiple underserved identities, ages 0-21. Our Helpline is the only free legal service solely focused on helping students access a quality public education in Pennsylvania, providing information, advice, referrals, legal consultation, and direct representation. We also produce publications and conduct trainings to help parents, students, caregivers, and child-serving professionals. 2) Advocating for Fair Education Funding: ELC works with statewide and local partners to push for the changes needed to address Pennsylvania's school funding crisis. We filed a lawsuit against the Commonwealth over a decade ago for failure to fund public education under the state constitution. In 2023, we won this case in a decisive victory in Commonwealth Court, in an order and opinion finding education is a fundamental right and deeming the state's current funding system unconstitutional and discriminatory. Now, we are focusing on a remedy. Our litigation is complemented by policy advocacy, including budget advocacy through the PA Schools Work coalition, as well as educating policymakers on the state's education funding system, our lawsuit, and needed funding increases to make sure the state is adequately and equitably funding public education. 3) Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline: ELC aims to end school pushout by eliminating exclusionary discipline policies that disproportionately harm Black and Brown youth, students with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ youth, with a focus on advancing the rights of Black girls. In addition to confronting discriminatory policies, we advocate for schools to adopt research-based interventions that will improve school climates and build inclusive and affirming schools. In 2024, we saw monumental wins for students across Pennsylvania as a result of ELC's legal and policy advocacy, including : - Secured a $1.1 billion state funding increase for public schools in response to the landmark decision in our Commonwealth Court case mandating school funding reform. The state budget includes a new "adequacy funding" stream exclusively for school districts that are underfunded relative to their students' needs. - Reached a settlement agreement with state officials in our lawsuit on behalf of former students from Glen Mills Schools, committing the Pennsylvania Department of Education to increased oversight of educational programs in residential facilities and establishing a complaint system. A prior agreement in this case provided compensatory education and damages to over 500 former students. - Worked with the School District of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh Public Schools to revise their districtwide dress codes, which now emphasize students' "right to dress in a manner that celebrates their racial, cultural, religious, and gender identities," affirming the right to wear protective hairstyles. - Supported parent advocacy in 24 school districts, countering harmful, extremist school board policies that exclude transgender students and create hostile school environments for Black, Brown, and LGBTQ+ students. - Remedied special education deficiencies through state complaints that led to new policies expanding access to education for youth in detention centers in Philadelphia and Allegheny County. - Assisted, through ELC's Helpline, more than a thousand students who are most marginalized by our education system. Form 990, Part VII, Section A: Due to changes in position during the year, there was not enough room to report select board members' titles on Part VII, so we are listing them here to provide full details. Kathryn Potalivo: President (effective 6/24), Secretary (thru 6/24) W. John Lee: Vice President (effective 6/24), Board Member (thru 6/24) Debbie Carlos: Secretary (effective 6/24), Board Member (thru 6/24)