
ABOUT ELC
ELC is at the forefront of state-based efforts to improve school funding equity and secure essential resources for all students. Our strategies include litigation, policy development, capacity building, communications, data analysis and research.
Our work is based on the belief that all children deserve the opportunity to learn. Read More
ELC's groundbreaking study of four states demonstrates that sustained, multi-faceted, political campaigns, including litigation, are the recipe to secure new state investments in PK-12 education.
ELC answers Frequently Asked Questions to assist parents whose children did not receive appropriate special education services during the pandemic. The deadline to raise these claims is September 1, 2023!
PEER, convened by ELC, is a national network of lawyers and organizers fighting for education equity in their states.
PFPS is a national campaign supported by ELC, SPLC and the SPLC Action Fund to fight private school vouchers through litigation, advocacy and research.
ELC represents over 300,000 low-income NJ schoolchildren in the Abbott v. Burke litigation. The Abbott decisions have been called the most important equal education rulings since Brown v. Board of Education.
Judge’s report is the most recent development in a motion filed in February 2021 by ELC on behalf of plaintiff students in the landmark Abbott v. Burke school funding litigation.
The Court’s decision reverses the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to protect students with disabilities and ensure they are able to use civil rights remedies under IDEA.
ELC disagrees that there is no fundamental right to a public education under the U.S. Constitution and continues to believe the federal government, courts, and laws play an important role in fostering educational equity.
ELC, ETS and LPI co-sponsored a webinar to highlight new research on the impact of investments in PK-12 public education. Access the recording and read the research summary.
Promised review of high school graduation test ‘cut scores’ still missing even though nearly 100,000 high school juniors will take the exit test later this month.