Sentences with phrase «landmark education lawsuit»

Under Ralia's leadership, PEJ has launched new landmark education lawsuits in Minnesota and New Jersey, built coalitions across the country for families seeking justice, and most recently, partnered with 50CAN to strengthen the chapter in the education reform movement utilizing legal strategies for educational equity.

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Nabozny, with the help of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, won a landmark federal lawsuit (and eventually settled for close to $ 1 million) against school administrators in his home state of Wisconsin who failed to a spate of stop brutal anti-gay bullying at his school of which he was the target.

Mr. Kirp was the founding director of the Harvard Center for Law and Education, which filed landmark lawsuits seeking equal educational opportunity.

That landmark legislation was brought on by a lawsuit from poor Appalachian counties that claimed they weren't getting adequate funding for education.

Lau v. Nichols «Lau vs. Nichols» is a lawsuit filed by Chinese parents in San Francisco in 1974, which led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling that identical education does not constitute equal education under the Civil Rights Act.

The lawyers are asking for a hearing in August and a written plan from the state as to how it intends to meet the basic education mandate outlined in the decades - old landmark lawsuit, known as the Leandro case.

Judge Howard E. Manning Jr. is in charge of making sure the state hasn't forgotten about the Leandro case, a decades - old landmark lawsuit that says all children - regardless of their socioeconomic backgrounds - deserve a «sound, basic education.»