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U.S. Dept. of Justice Files Statement of Interest in CLASI Lawsuit on Behalf of Incarcerated Students with Disabilities
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 20, 2024FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Margaretta Kroeger, CLASI Communications Director, mkroeger@declasi.org U.S. Department of Justice Files Statement of Interest in Federal Lawsuit Filed on Behalf of Incarcerated Students with Disabilities by CLASI and TPMDOJ Provides Position of United States in Litigation Against Delaware Dept. of Education WILMINGTON, DE—The United States,…
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CLASI Files Federal Lawsuit Alleging Delaware Violates Rights of Incarcerated Special Education Students
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 24, 2024 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Margaretta Kroeger, CLASI Communications Director / mkroeger@declasi.org Federal Lawsuit Alleges Delaware Illegally Denies Education to Incarcerated Students with Disabilities CLASI and TPM Seek Injunction Requiring State to Address Systemic Failures WILMINGTON, DE—Community Legal Aid Society, Inc. (“CLASI”) and public interest law firm Terris, Pravlik…
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CLASI Statement on 70th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
Today marks 70 years since the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, which outlawed racial segregation in public schools and declared that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” We at Community Legal Aid Society, Inc. (“CLASI”) celebrate the progress made after the Brown decision, which served as a catalyst for…
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CLASI Welcomes Findings of New Delaware School Funding Study
On December 12, 2023, the Delaware Department of Education released the results of a new independent assessment of the state’s public school funding system. The assessment is the result of a legal settlement reached in 2020 with Delawareans for Educational Opportunity and the NAACP Delaware State Conference, who filed suit in 2018 seeking more equitable…
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CLASI and ACLU Settle School Funding Lawsuit With the State of Delaware
CLASI and ACLU have settled the school funding lawsuit with the State of Delaware. The press release linked below summarizes the settlement. The full terms of the settlement can be found in the Judicial Order also linked below. Press Release Judicial Order
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