Executive Director, Education Law Center of Pennsylvania

Posted by Education Law Center of Pennsylvania on October 20, 2014

The Board of Directors of the Education Law Center-PA (ELC) seeks a new Executive Director who will be charged with promoting the mission, vision, and values of ELC and leading the organization toward fuller self-sustainability.

ABOUT THE EDUCATION LAW CENTER-PA

Established in 1975, the Education Law Center-PA is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) legal advocacy organization with offices in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. ELC’s mission is to ensure that all of Pennsylvania’s children, including poor children, children with disabilities, English language learners, children in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, children experiencing homelessness, and other vulnerable students have equal access to quality public schools. ELC pursues this mission through a strategic combination of legal representation, public policy advocacy, media work, community education and engagement, and working in coalitions with a wide variety of partners.

Based on a strategic plan adopted in 2013, ELC’s three priorities areas are: (1) Fighting for Fair Funding, which includes advocating for adequate and equitable state funding and defending against attacks on public education; (2) Ensuring Equal Access, which includes advocating for access to school and needed services on behalf of children with disabilities, children in the foster care system, children experiencing homelessness, children of color, and English language learners; and (3) Stopping the School-to-Prison Pipeline, which includes ending exclusionary discipline policies that push at-risk kids out of school and, often, into the school-to-prison pipeline. A copy of our Strategic Plan can be found at http://www.elc-pa.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ELC_StrategicPlan_2014_17.pdf.

ELC works with a network of parents, advocates, and a wide range of community and other organizations to accomplish its mission. ELC has an operating budget of approximately $1.5 million, nearly 80% of which is funded through local, state and national grants and foundations. The additional 20% of funding comes through individual gifts, program income, attorney’s fees, training honoraria, and quasi-governmental funders.

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