Melissa Junge and Sheara Krvaric of AEI Education have written an important report highlighting the need for education leaders to understand the complexity of education laws, and as a result, the need for lawyers to help bring about effective reform.
Following are some key points from the report:
— Given the myriad rules and regulations in K-12 education, successful implementation of education reform policies requires attention to the law.
— Unfortunately, many education leaders are uninformed about how to select, inform, and properly utilize lawyers, whereas lawyers often lack sufficient context on the problems that education leaders face.
— Education and legal groups should take concrete steps to train school leaders on how to use lawyers to identify reform options, understand their risks, and strategically implement decisions.
Education leaders have often taken the flawed viewpoint that they can handle the legal aspects of education reform themselves. But according to Junge and Krvaric, other fields recognize the need to use lawyers who are informed about goals and needs in the contextual situation, and education should too.
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