Document Type
Article
Media Type
Text
Abstract
This pragmatic article, the first exhaustive review of the issue, details how lawyer advocates can help homeless children have access to the education to which they are legally entitled. Topics discussed include: legal background and authority, seeking alternatives to litigation, litigating, settling, after a settlement is reached or a decision occurs, and the future of homeless education rights. Incorporating cases, personal interviews with the attorneys who litigated the cases, settlements, complaints, motions and other non-published court documents, state and federal statutes, state administrative codes, federal and state constitutions, congressional testimony, educational agency reports, law review articles, reports by homeless advocacy groups, newspaper articles and more, the author provides a beginning-to-end roadmap for anyone facing resistance from ignorant or hostile school boards.
First Page
257
Last Page
316
Publication Date
5-1-2003
Department
College of Law
ISSN
0734-1490
Language
eng
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Law Review
Recommended Citation
Dowd, Ryan J.
(2003)
"No Other Choice: Litigating and Settling Homeless Education Rights Cases,"
Northern Illinois University Law Review: Vol. 23:
Iss.
2, Article 3.
Suggested Citation
Ryan J. Dowd, Comment, No Other Choice: Litigating and Settling Homeless Education Rights Cases, 23 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. 257 (2003).
