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Class action lawsuit targets state agency for neglecting students with disabilities.

Advocates of legislation to ban early elementary school suspensions say even one instance of removing a young student from class is too much.

It’s the experience of likely thousands of teenagers across Massachusetts each year, students who not only are failed by schools in early elementary years, but who are allowed to slide to the end of their public school experience without becoming competent readers.

When these factors are not explicitly named and acknowledged, one demonstrates a gap in understanding that racism perpetuates disproportionate outcomes for Black and Brown populations.

The Municipal Police Training Committee was supposed to give attorneys with expertise in juvenile and education law a seat at the table when it was developing the curriculum for future school resource officer candidates, the Legislature explicitly directed. That did not happen, Marlies Spanjaard, director of education advocacy for the EdLaw Project, told members of

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Morgan Lewis of Counsel Laura Lerner Named Yaf’s First Pro Bono Attorney of the Year.

Costly independent evaluations and long waits have come to play an outsize role in the diagnosis and treatment disabilities, from ADHD to dyslexia.

She has a capacity for connecting with voters beyond her Boston City Council stomping grounds.