Center for Law and Education Pro Bono Education Law Project
105 Chauncy Street, 6th Floor, Suite
Boston, MA 02111
Telephone: (617) 451-0855
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.cleweb.org
The Center for Law and Education strives to make the right of all students to quality education a reality and to help enable communities to address their own education problems effectively, with an emphasis on assistance to low-income students.
CLE has developed enormous expertise about the legal rights and responsibilities of students and school personnel as well as about key education programs and initiatives, including Title I, career and technical education, student assessment, and special education.
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.
Child Advocacy Clinic Harvard University Law School
23 Everett Street
Cambridge, Ma 02138
Telephone: (617) 496-1684
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://cap.law.harvard.edu/cap-clinic/
100% Children’s Law
The Child Advocacy Program (CAP) at Harvard Law School is committed to advancing children’s interests through facilitating productive interaction between academia and the world of policy and practice, and through training generations of students to contribute in their future careers to law reform and social change. CAP is committed to a broad vision of advocacy, working both in and outside of the courtroom, as well as across disciplinary lines. CAP’s Child Advocacy Clinic addresses a variety of substantive areas impacting the lives of children, with a focus on child welfare (abuse and neglect, foster care, and adoption), education, and juvenile justice.
Education Law Clinic
Trauma & Learning Policy Initiative
Harvard Law School
3085 Wasserstein Hall (WCC)
6 Everett Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: (617) 495-5200
Email: [email protected]
Website: Education Law Clinic/Trauma & Learning Policy Initiative | Harvard Law School
The Education Law Clinic is part of a program called the Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative (TLPI), a nationally recognized collaboration between Harvard Law School and Massachusetts Advocates for Children (MAC), whose mission is to ensure that children impacted by family violence and other adverse childhood experiences succeed in school. To achieve this mission, TLPI uses multiple strategies to seek remedies for individual children, as well as laws and policies that provide schools with the knowledge and resources they need to meet the needs of all children. TLPI’s advocacy is based on interdisciplinary research and collaboration across a wide array of professional disciplines: education, psychology, neurobiology, medicine, social work, and public policy. Students in the Education Law Clinic help further TLPI’s mission by employing knowledge from these fields to advance the interests of traumatized children through legal representation and in the policy arena.
Students in the fall Clinic provide direct representation to parents/guardians whose children have been affected by family violence or other adverse experiences and who are not getting the special education services they need. Students receive direct one-to-one mentorship and develop a working knowledge of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and Massachusetts special education laws.