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Two Law Center Publications named finalists in the 2009 National Best Book Awards Contest

October 2009 - We are pleased to announce that "Education in the 50 States: A Deskbook of the History of State Constitutions and Laws About Education," produced by Law Center staff and interns and published by by The Institute for Educational Equity and Opportunity (IFEEO), has been recognized as an outstanding candidate in the "History: United States" category for this distinguished book award. Also, "A Quality Education for Every Child: Stories from the Lawyers on the Front Lines" has been named a Finalist in the "Education/Academic" category. Attorney Michael Churchill contributed two chapters to this book. Read the press release.

Education in the 50 States: A Deskbook of the History of State Constitutions and Laws About Education

Released the week of July 21, 2008, this 228 page publication was generously funded by The Institute for Educational Equity & Opportunity (www.IFEEO.org) and was written and researched by the Law Center's staff and interns. Ordering information will be posted on the IFEEO website. An informative 80 pg. excerpt is available for free download below and on the IFEEO website.
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"'Education in the 50 States' is an excellent account of the exceptionally high regard for broad, public education on the part of the nation's founders, and throughout the subsequent history and development of each state and the United States. We cited your book in our amicus brief to the Oregon Supreme Court earlier this year, and we are doing the same in our amicus for the Missouri Supreme Court that will be filed next week.

'Education in the 50 States' has already proven extremely helpful in connecting the educational philosophy and language of the Eighteenth Century to current state constitutional language in the Twenty-first Century. The emphasis on the need to educate all citizens well ('the diffusion of knowledge among the people') in order to preserve their rights and liberties and a republican form of government sets a high standard for all state education systems to this day.

Thanks again...for documenting in this book the crucial underpinnings that education provides for sustaining our democracy."

-- Molly A. Hunter, Esq., Director, Education Justice, Education Law Center, Newark, New Jersey

"My firm was pro bono counsel for one of the amicus parties in a critical education adequacy lawsuit before the Colorado Supreme Court. We submitted the IFEEO's Education in the 50 States as an exhibit attached to every copy of our Brief of Amicus Curae because we wanted the Colorado Supreme Court to have this wonderful resource which outlines the history of education in every state. This history underscores the importance of education in our country and in each state, and explains that many states protect the constitutional right to education. I am proud to say that our state's highest court recently confirmed that Colorado is one of those States."
-- Kenzo Kawanabe, Esq., Davis Graham & Stubbs, LLP, Denver, Colorado

Disabilities Rights - Community Based Services

Olmstead: Reclaiming Institutionalized Lives (unabridged version) by the Law Center's Judith A. Gran, with the assistance of former Law Center attorney Max Lapertosa, Esq. and Ruthie Beckwith

Olmstead: Reclaiming Institutionalized Lives (abridged version) by the Law Center's Judith A. Gran, with the assistance of former Law Center attorney Max Lapertosa, Esq. and Ruthie Beckwith

"The Uses of the Courts and of Lawyers" by Thomas K. Gilhool

Changing Patterns in Residential Services for the Mentally Retarded, Revised Edition 1976

The President's Committee on Mental Retardation

Disabilities Rights - IDEA

Shannon Carter: A Substantive IDEA On School Performance and Accountability by the Law Center's Judith A. Gran, and Thomas K. Gilhool and former Law Center attorney Frank Laski
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2009 Audited Financial Statements

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