Education:

HSKRR pursues litigation on behalf of disadvantaged students, and where students' constitutional and civil rights have been violated. We have sued the State of California on behalf of Spanish speaking students for refusing to test them in Spanish under the No Child Left Behind Act. We also successfully sought to intervene along with the ACLU, NAACP LDF and MALDEF in a case defending the LAUSD's magnet program against a challenge by the Pacific Legal Foundation that the magnet case violated the non-affirmative action provisions of Proposition 209. Our attorneys have represented students in a variety of contexts, including sexual harassment by a teacher; bullying and harassment at school, and a failure by schools to protect students; violations of the Equal Access Act and Education Code provisions; and violations of students’ constitutional free speech and privacy rights.