Law students to advocate for schools
Two Yale Law School students will advocate for more than 600,000 Connecticut schoolchildren before the state Supreme Court in Hartford today.
For the two students in Yale’s Education Adequacy Clinic, David Noah LAW ’09 and Neil Weare LAW ’08, more than a year of work will culminate today as they present their oral argument in a case that will decide whether Connecticut’s constitution, which has guaranteed the right to an education since 1965, entails some baseline quality of education. The students will argue it does, on behalf of the Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education...
Kudos to all of those involved with this grossly underserved (at least until you folk became involved) initiative to bolster the chances and dignity of ALL parties involved with State of CT urban school districts.
Keep up the good work, David Noah, Brian Savage, and Neil Weare! We need more students like you in the LS. I especially concur with the point that there should be at least a minimal standard, rather than acquiescence to mass (albeit "equal") failure. Thanks also to Isaac Arnsdorf for reporting on their project and bringing it to a wider audience--it seems that worthy stories like this one get lost in the Shvarts brouhaha that has taken over prime YDN front-page real estate. Some readers are still paying attention to pieces like this, though...