CLSR Fellow’s Project Focuses on Education Law

Martha Drane, the 2010-2011 CLSR Fellow, assists the center in all of its areas of public interest law, while her substantive work focuses on education law. Handling the education cases at the Medical-Legal Partnership | Boston (MLP | Boston), her work encompasses special education issues, particularly for those who suffer from autism; transitional services for children either entering public schools from early intervention programs or aging out of the public school system; and disciplinary issues for children with disabilities. As MLP | Boston collaborates with various law firms, she has developed a project to produce an Education Law Toolkit to assist those pro bono lawyers working on education matters. She is also working closely with MA Appleseed in exploring the issues low-income children with autism face in the school system and how such issues affect a child’s health and well-being. Additionally, she has joined the Education Law Task Force—a group dedicated to addressing the important education issues low-income children face.