Education Law Center

The Education Law Center (ELC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring access to quality public education for all children in Pennsylvania. The firm focuses its efforts on underserved students, including children living in poverty, children of color, children with disabilities, those in the foster and juvenile justice systems, children experiencing homelessness, multilingual learners, and LGBTQ and gender-nonconforming students.

ELC works to ensure that all children in Pennsylvania have access to quality public educational services and the full range of educational options available to their peers. The organization holds officials and policymakers accountable for complying with laws protecting the educational rights of disadvantaged children and strives to keep state and local policies fair, aiming to reduce disproportionality along race and class lines.

The firm also empowers families by giving them a voice in their children's education, providing tools to resolve school-related problems, and offering information to advocate for improvements in education policy and law. ELC supports community organizations and grassroots advocates in their efforts to enhance public education. Key areas of focus include:

• Fair School Funding
• Ensuring Equal Access to Education
• Stopping the School-to-Prison Pipeline
• Inclusive Schools and Honest Education
• Early Childhood Education Access
• Black Girls Education Justice Initiative

The firm provides information, referrals, legal advice, and advocacy through its Helpline free of charge. ELC maintains offices in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.