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2023 Annual Report
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Testimony: Public Hearing on Student Absenteeism and Discipline

June 26, 2024
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Practice Kit 12: D.C. Court of Appeals Case Law Index

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Comment: Special Education Rulemaking

Along with her Aug. 20 testimony, Children’s Law Center’s Senior Policy Attorney Renee Murphy submitted comments regarding proposed revisions to special education regulations from the Office…

August 20, 2015
Resource Training Manuals

Special Education Pro Bono Attorney Training Manual

Below you will find Children’s Law Center’s comprehensive Special Education Training Manual, broken up into its component tabs. Please note: Identifying information included in any…
Resource Fact Sheets

Working With Child Witnesses

Children are frequently called as witnesses in neglect, adoption, custody, and criminal trials. Attorneys working with child witnesses must consider the child’s stage of development,…
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Testimony: Confirmation Hearing for the Director of CFSA 2015

Executive Director Judith Sandalow testified on priorities for the new director of the DC Child and Family Services Agency. These include: Management of in-home cases…

July 1, 2015
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Testimony: The Grandparent Caregivers Program Relative Subsidy Transfer Admendment Act of 2015

Senior Policy Attorney Damon King testified in favor of the Act, which would allow extended family members raising DC children to receive support under the…

June 24, 2015
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Testimony: Public Roundtable on the Value of Investing in Trauma-Informed Public Schools

Children’s Law Center testified before the Council Education Committee about childhood trauma in DC, how trauma affects learning, and how DC’s public school system should…

June 23, 2015
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Addressing Childhood Trauma in DC Schools

This Children’s Law Center policy paper examines how childhood trauma impacts learning, why children in DC are at risk and what DC schools can do.…
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FY16 Budget Testimony: District of Columbia Committee of the Whole Budget Hearing

Children’s Law Center testified before the DC Council Committee of the Whole in support of the Mayor’s proposed one-time, one-year delay in the 60-month cut-off…

May 8, 2015
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FY16 Budget Testimony: Office of State Superintendent of Education

On April 30, 2015, Judith Sandalow, executive director of Children’s Law Center, testfied at the Office of State Superintendent of Education’s agency hearing on Mayor…

April 30, 2015
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FY16 Budget Testimony: Child & Family Services Agency

Executive Director Judith Sandalow testified regarding the Mayor’s proposal for the CFSA’s FY2016 budget. In her testimony, she praised the Mayor for prioritizing the needs…

April 28, 2015