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Center for Law and Education

Center for Law and Education - Boston

Main Program:

Center for Law and Education

 Director:

Kathleen Boundy

 Address:

99 Chauncy Street Suite 700, Boston, MA 02111

 		Main Phone:

617-451-0855

 Fax:

617-451-1167

 Website:

http://www.cleweb.org
Program Description:

The Center for Law and Education (CLE) is a national advocacy organization committed to assisting low-income students, parents, and advocates improve their public schools and work with their communities to fulfill every student's right to high-quality education. CLE helps advocates and their clients implement key education programs (e.g., Title I, special education, vocational education) and state education reform initiatives through internal school capacity-building and outside advocacy, including litigation. In MA, CLE provides statewide support to legal services programs and pro bono counsel representing low-income students and their parents in education law related matters.

CLE also provides direct legal assistance to low-income students who are being excluded from public school through disciplinary exclusion or as a result of an ineffective/inadequate education through its Pro Bono Education Law Project, a partnership of CLE, Choate Hall and Stewart and the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School.

 Intake Notes:

CLE's Pro Bono Education Law Project provides direct legal assistance to low-income students throughout the state who are being excluded from public school through disciplinary exclusion or as a result of an ineffective/inadequate education. Intake: Monday-Friday, 9:00am-6:00pm. 

 Area Served:

Statewide

 Priorities:

Education

Languages:

Spanish

Center for Law and Education - DC

Main Program:

Center for Law and Education

 Director:

Paul Weckstein

 Address:

1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 510, Washington, DC 20009

 		Main Phone:

202-986-3000

 Fax:

202-986-6648

 Website:

http://www.cleweb.org
Program Description:

The Center for Law and Education (CLE) is a national advocacy organization committed to assisting low-income students, parents, and advocates improve their public schools and work with their communities to fulfill every student's right to high-quality education. CLE helps advocates and their clients implement key education programs (e.g., Title I, special education, vocational education) and state education reform initiatives through internal school capacity-building and outside advocacy, including litigation. In MA, CLE provides statewide support to legal services programs and pro bono counsel representing low-income students and their parents in education law related matters.

 Priorities:

Education