With awareness of child molestation heightened since the Miramonte Elementary case broke a year ago, Los Angeles Unified is creating a special team to investigate sex-abuse allegations. Superintendent John Deasy said he plans to hire two investigators who have backgrounds in law enforcement and also know education law to oversee cases in which teachers or other campus employees are accused of sexual misconduct.
Successful advocacy on behalf of an exceptional child requires awareness of the child's specific disability as well as that individual child's strengths and weaknesses, which may be evidenced by, among other criteria, test results and scores, recommendations made by physicians, psychologists and educators,3 and the politics and resultant dynamics of special education, particularly at the local level.4 Familiarity with the IDEA is also critical to meaningful advocacy.5 The PELE students study the law governing special education and explore it through application in their individual cases. LAW AND EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITY To assist our advocacy efforts on behalf of our exceptional child clients and to facilitate the PELE students' understanding of these unfamiliar fields of study...
R. Clifford - West Virginia's first black lawyer - will be the topic of a Tuesday night lecture at The Division of Culture and History. Clifford, who's landmark Williams v. the Board of Education of Tucker County put racial discrimination cases on the map, made major contributions in education, newspapers, civil rights and law.
With awareness of child molestation heightened since the Miramonte Elementary case broke a year ago, Los Angeles Unified is creating a special team to investigate sex-abuse allegations. Superintendent John Deasy said he plans to hire two investigators who have backgrounds in law enforcement and also know education law to oversee cases in which teachers or other campus employees are accused of sexual misconduct.
Public education is ideal. Since our pioneering years, Americans have strived to provide all youth regardless of income, ability or disability, mental prowess or emotional failure, talent or lack thereof with an education. It has taken court cases, to be sure. But by rule of law, access is there.
Unlike other recent cases, such as Newsom v. Albemarle2 in the Fourth Circuit and Guiles v. Marineau3 in the Second Circuit, in which federal appellate courts decided that school officials may have violated students' freedom of speech rights by the restrictions placed on wearing specific messages on their t-shirts, the Seventh Circuit did not find that the school official's behavior violated Brandt's speech rights.
Shea Chapin Age: 34. From: Shannon, Ill.; lived in Dubuque for eight years. Profession: First day as assistant Dubuque County attorney on March 25. Will mainly handle misdemeanor traffic court. Education: Graduated with a sociology and criminology degree from University of Northern Iowa and law degree from Drake University. Hobbies: Disaster action team leader for the American Red Cross, softball, farmer's market and public service. Josh Vander Ploeg Age: 34. From: Monroe, Iowa; lived in Marshalltown, Iowa, for the last eight years. Family: Wife, Laura; three children, age 6, and 7- month-old twins. Profession: First day as assistant Dubuque County attorney today. Will handle child-in-need-of-assistance and termination-of-parental-rights cases in juvenile court. Education: Graduat...
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