General Description of Capacity (PDF)
Forms of assistance. The Center for Law and Education (CLE) possesses the capacity to help a wide range of people – educators, policy makers, program administrators, parents, students, and advocates – with very high-quality work (drawing on both our educational and our legal expertise) of a variety of kinds:
- Writing in varied genres
- Policy and program analysis
- Program design
- Both short-term and ongoing technical assistance and consulting, on program implementation and resolving problems
- Training
- Speaking
- Advocating
Substantive areas of expertise. CLE has used the above-referenced forms of assistance, at local, state, and national levels, in pursuit of high-quality education for all children across a range of topics where we have substantial knowledge and experience, including for example:
- Standards-based reform
- School accountability
- High-quality programming for students with disabilities
- Title I
- High school restructuring
- Career and technical education
- Student assessment
- Parent involvement
- Civil rights implementation
Pro Bono Education Law Project
CLE’s Pro Bono Education Law Project, a collaborative partnership with the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School and Choate, Hall and Stewart, 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.
Press (many links here = broken)
- Adrian Walker, Vigilance to a Fault, Boston Globe, January 23, 2010
- John Barankiak and Jenny Chou, Op-Ed, Zero-tolerance Can Mean Zero Due Process, Boston Globe, December 24, 2009
- CLE & Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice create private pro bono project with Choate Hall & Stewart LLP (PDF) Original project press release.