Education and Advocacy Organizations CLE Collaborates With:

Fiesta Educativa, Inc
Fiesta Educativa assists Latino and Spanish-speaking families in urban and rural areas. It reaches over 7,000 families each year, bringing information and hope to monolingual and bilingual families from the Latino community throughout California and the nation. The site contains information about events and other websites related to disabilities.

Family and Advocates Partnership for Education (FAPE)
The Center for Law and Education will participate as a core partner in the recently created Family and Advocates Partnership for Education. The partnership, spearheaded by the Parent Advocacy Center for Educational Rights (PACER) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has been awarded a 5-year grant by the U.S. Department of Education to provide information and training nationwide to parents and advocates on implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997. Drawing upon IDEA, general education and civil rights laws, CLE’s work will focus on legal research, analysis, writing and training on topics critical to ensuring that all students with disabilities are fully integrated into standards-based school reform initiatives, and receive a high-quality education. Other core partnership members include the Academy for Educational Development, the Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health, Family Voices, Fiesta Educativa, National Down Syndrome Congress, National Council on Independent Living, National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education, National Indian Child Welfare Association, and National Association for Parents of the Visually Impaired.

The National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education (NCPIE)
NCPIE is a coalition of organizations who are all working to develop effective family/school partnerships in schools throughout America. The Center for Law and Education is a part of the coalition. The web page includes an overview of NCPIE, information about collaborations between families and schools, a list of the organizations who are a part of the NCPIE coalition and links to their web pages and a catalog of resources on family and community involvement.

The Big Picture - New Urban High Schools
The Big Picture Company is a non-profit corporation dedicated to networking and supporting innovative high school reform efforts across the United States. Beginning in September 1995, The Big Picture designed and then opened the Met--a new kind of high school, to serve as a resource for both Rhode Island and nationwide reform efforts. Committed to parent and community participation, the Met offers its students individualized learning plans, interest-based study, and learning through internships. The website is devoted primarily to the New Urban High School initiative, on which CLE was an active partner, and which focuses on new visions and designs for the nation's urban high schools, drawing from both the best school-to-work efforts and schoolwide education reform. The site also provides the opportunity to join various discussion groups around high school reform.

Legal and Legislative Research

FedLaw
FedLaw has been developed to ascertain if hypertext links to legal Home Pages on the Internet could be a useful and cost-effective research tool for federal lawyers and other federal employees. The Internet can be extremely useful for research. However, many of the materials are embedded deep within the Internet so that finding them is time-consuming. For instance, the Cornell Legal Information Institute (a major source used here) contains federal laws but not many federal regulations. To help overcome this problem, Fedlaw has assembled a select group of references of particular use to those persons doing federal legal research and which can be accessed directly through "point and click" hypertext connections.

Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School
This web site holds the Internet publications of the Legal Information Institute, a part of the Cornell Law School. The server offers the Legal Information Institute's collection of recent and historic Supreme Court and Federal Court of Appeals decisions, its hypertext versions of the full U.S. Code, U.S. Constitution, Federal Rules of Evidence and Civil Procedure, recent opinions of the New York Court of Appeals and commentary on them from the Legal Information Institute's bulletin-NY, and other important legal materials -- federal and constitution, laws and court opinions and, state, foreign and international. It holds the Legal Information Institute's e-mail address directory of faculty and staff at U.S. law schools as well as contact information on other people and organizations in the field of law. It is host to the Cornell Law Review, and offers information about Cornell Law School and the Cornell Law Library.

FindLaw
FindLaw is a valuable legal resource that is found on the Internet. It includes a legal subject index, information about law schools, professional development, legal organizations, law firms and lawyers, consultants and experts, various phone directories, law cases and codes, U.S. Federal Government Resources, state law resources, foreign and international resources, news and references, legal practice material and legal minds.

Thomas - Legislative Information on the Internet
In January of 1995, the 104th Congress brought the THOMAS world wide web information online, in order to make federal legislative information freely available to the Internet public. The first database made available was Bill Text, followed shortly by Congressional Record Text, Bill Summary & Status, Hot Bills (now called "Congress This Week" and "Major Legislation"), the Congressional Record Index, and the Constitution (now found, along with other historical Congressional documents, under the "Historical Documents" category on the THOMAS home page). Enhancements in the types of legislative data available, as well as in search and display capabilities, have been continuously added.

Education Agencies and Services

Developing Educational Standards - State Education Departments
Developing Educational Standards is an annotated list of Internet sites with K-12 educational standards and curriculum frameworks documents, maintained by Charles Hill and the Putnam Valley Schools in New York.

United States Department of Education
This is the official website for the United States Department of Education. It includes for example, the following: an overview of the Department of Education and its mission, what's happening in the news, resources that the Department makes available to parents and teachers, information about grants and contracts that are available by the Department, the Secretary's initiatives, staffing, programs and services, student financial aid, research and strategies, publications and products and links to other websites.

United States Office of Civil Rights
This is the official web page for the United States Office of Civil Rights. OCR serves as the principal adviser to the Secretary of Education on civil rights issues. The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights also provides support services to our regional offices by developing regulations, guidelines, legal standards, and policies pertaining to civil rights compliance; offering administrative and operational support; providing analysis of civil rights surveys and statistical information on civil rights matters; undertaking enforcement actions when compliance cannot be achieved through negotiation; and directing litigation of cases in administrative hearings.

School-to-Work
This is the web page for the National School-to-Work Learning & Information Center. It provides information on the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994, which provides seed money to States and local partnerships of business, labor, government, education, and community organizations to develop school-to-work systems. (See also CLE's School to Work Guide)

Education Week
This is the official web page for Education Week and Teacher Magazine. The page is chock full of useful information about education policy and current events. It also contains a list of key education organizations.

Educational Online Sources
This site is intended to be a consolidated collection of educational online sources so that when teachers and students first join the Internet they will have a single place to go to obtain the information they need to get started. They want to make this a space where everyone can contribute, where everyone together can build a clearinghouse for educational information.