Community Lawyers, Inc.

Community Lawyers, Inc. will expand its existing Special Education Law program to improve educational outcomes and equity for systems impacted youth attending schools in Los Angeles County including the Los Angeles Unified School District and Los Angeles County detention centers. Expansion will allow CLI to represent additional systems-impacted youth at education court hearings who experience civil rights violations at school in order to achieve individual and district-wide policy improvements to support youth in achieving educational equity.

Working at the intersection of special education and systems impacted youth, Community Lawyers, Inc. will expand its existing Education Law program to improve positive life outcomes for systems impacted youth attending schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District, Compton Unified School District, and Los Angeles County detention centers. This expansion will support serving an increased number of youth in order to advocate for appropriate assessment, least restrictive learning environment, ideal school placement, and community continuity.