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  Testimony: Performance Oversight Hearing, Deputy Mayor for Education (FY18)

  Children’s Law Center attorney Renee Murphy focuses her testimony on two areas where the District needs the Deputy Mayor to focus her leadership to create…

  February 13, 2018

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  Public Hearing: Performance Oversight Hearing – Department of Health (FY18)

  Children’s Law Center attorney Anne Cunningham testifies about Home Visiting and the Build Health Challenge Grant—which has enabled Children’s Law Center, Children’s National Health System,…

  February 12, 2018

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  Student Fair Access to School Act of 2017 Testimony

  The children we advocate for at Children’s Law Center are disproportionately impacted by school suspensions and expulsions—children of color, children with disabilities and children in…

  January 30, 2018

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  Testimony: The Department of Human Services’ Rapid Re-Housing Program, Diana Sisson

  Diana Sisson is part of CLC’s medical legal partnership, an innovative collaboration between pediatricians and lawyers where lawyers become part of the medical team on…

  December 18, 2017

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  Testimony: The Department of Human Services’ Rapid Re-Housing Program

  Children’s Law Center’s experience with Rapid Re-Housing in the District is that its structure and its implementation often result in families living in substandard housing…

  December 18, 2017

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  The State of Special Education Services in the DC traditional and public charter schools and the "OSSE Enhanced Special Education Services Act of 2014: Implementation Report to the Council of the District of Columbia"

  Children’s Law Center attorney Renee Murphy testifies about why the 2014 Special Education Reform Acts need to be fully funded to help meet the needs…

  November 20, 2017

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  Testimony: Commission on Poverty in the District of Columbia Establishment Act of 2017

  Children’s Law Center Executive Director Judith Sandalow testified about poverty in DC and how the proposed Commission on Poverty could be most successful.

  November 1, 2017

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  Testimony: Improving School Attendance Roundtable 2017

  Executive Director Judith Sandalow testified at a joint public roundtable before the DC Council’s Committee of the Whole and Committee on Education regarding the District’s…

  October 23, 2017

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  Testimony: Education for Students During and After Detention, Commitment, or Incarceration

  Supervising Attorney Renee Murphy shared her testimony with the District of Columbia Council Committee on Education regarding what legal reforms could positively impact education systems…

  October 19, 2017

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  Testimony: DCRA Inspection and Enforcement of Tenant Housing

  Senior Policy Attorney Anne Cunningham testified before the DC Council’s Committee of the Whole regarding the inspection and enforcement of the District’s housing codes regulated…

  October 2, 2017