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Pennhurst State School and Hospital, originally known as the Eastern Pennsylvania State Institution for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic was a state-run institution for mentally and physically disabled individuals of Southeastern Pennsylvania located in Spring City. [4]
Aerial view of the Pennhurst State School and Hospital campus, 1922. The Pennhurst campus in 1922. Assembly Hall, Penn Hall and Devon Hall had not been built yet. And Commonwealth Drive apparently ended at Mayflower Hall.
Under the "Creation and Purpose" heading, the second sentence reads "Pennhurst's property was vast, covering 120 acres (0.49 km2)." Then under the "Property and Grounds" heading, the first sentence refers to "its 1,400-acre (5.7 km2) site"! Which is it? Is its "property" different than its "site"? Did the size change over time? This needs ...
"Free Public Schools of Chicago" Eclectic Journal of Education and Literary Review (January 15, 1851). 2#20 online; Havighurst, Robert J. The public schools of Chicago: a survey for the Board of Education of the City of Chicago (1964). online; Henry, Nelson B. “Financial Support and Administration of the Chicago Public Schools.”
Text of Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman, 465 U.S. 89 (1984) is available from: CourtListener Justia Library of Congress Oyez (oral argument audio) Suffer The Little Children, a 1968 exposé on Pennhurst State School by NBC10 reporter Bill Baldini.
For months, board members for Chicago Public Schools (CPS) – the country's fourth-largest public school system – had been under pressure by Johnson to fire CPS CEO Pedro Martinez, who was ...
Pennhurst, filed in Pennsylvania on behalf of the residents of the Pennhurst State School and Hospital, highlighted conditions at state schools for people with intellectual disabilities. It became a precedent in the battle for deinstitutionalization, establishing a right to community services for people with developmental disabilities.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders was arrested in Chicago 60 years ago this week. Then a 21-year-old University of Chicago student, Sanders was charged with resisting arrest during an Aug. 12, 1963 ...