Students, educators, and policy makers throughout the state will share information, successes, and challenges in reducing suspensions and expulsions that have disproportionately targeted students of color.
Read MoreIn a lawsuit filed yesterday with the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois a Black family represented by Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Schiff Hardin LLP is alleging that school administrators acted with deliberate indifference to racial harassment and deprived their daughter of her right to an education.
Read MoreThe Reid Technique training is based on techniques used by law enforcement on adults held in police custody, a problematic method inappropriate for use on school-age children and particularly juveniles with mental health diagnoses or other impairments
Read MoreApproximately 50 volunteer project monitors, including law students, lawyers, and other professionals, will be assigned to schools that are expecting new students displaced by the recent CPS closings.
Read MoreIn response to the recent CPS school closings, The Educational Equity Project of the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. has launched a new helpline to assist students and families in navigating the re-enrollment process.
Read MoreIn a case involving educational inequities in the school district that includes Elgin, Illinois federal District Court Judge Robert Gettleman issued a decision on July 11, 2013 holding that the school district has discriminated against Hispanic students in the operation of the district’s gifted program.
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