April 27: Representing Students in School Discipline Proceedings as a Way to Address Racial Disparities in Education Outcomes

Due to the intersection between poverty, race, gender, and disability play out in the school discipline context, it is important to increase the ability of advocates to represent students in a way that not only protects their due process rights but also identifies resources that can prevent disciplinary concerns in the future. Furthermore, increasing student representation in these settings has the potential to disrupt the schools-to-prison pipeline. 

This training is an attempt to increase the capacity of the bar to help students reach their potential and minimize the impacts of disproportionate exclusionary discipline practices in the Seattle area. Attending attorneys will have an opportunity to work with a Washington non-profit, the Kienan Ellis Education Project (KEEP Washington). A Goal of KEEP Washington is Stopping the school-to-prison pipeline, with a service area focusing on Seattle Public Schools. This is an opportunity to exercise your trial advocacy skills while: 

• Keeping students in their classrooms rather than experiencing unwarranted school exclusions, and, 
• Ensuring that a student who may need additional services is not wrongfully excluded from school or access to other necessary services.

Approaches include, but are not limited to: 

• Ensuring due process is provided and inaccurate allegations are disproven.
• Ensuring that educational plans for disabled students are followed.
• Facilitating a healthy and timely return to school for your student client.
• Advocating for and identify additional social and educational supports to help prevent future exclusionary discipline.

Title:
Representing Students in School Discipline Proceedings as a Way to Address Racial Disparities in Education Outcomes.
Webinar Date+Time:
April 27, 2022
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM PT
Free Continuing Legal Education Webinar - Register Now!
Speakers:

• Lara Hruska - Cedar Law PLLC, Seattle
• Chris Williams - Cedar Law PLLC, Seattle

By:
Washington State Bar Association, Developed in partnership with the WSBA Civil Rights Law Section
Credits:
2.00 Law & Legal Procedure
Cost:
Free.

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