Learning Rights Law Center

Please join us tomorrow, April 10, 2021 at SNN’s Tools for Transformation Virtual Conference on Race, the Coronavirus, and the Disability Community. Our Director of Systemic Advocacy, Kyra Clipper, will answer school-related questions on an afternoon panel. Don’t miss this important event!

Does your child attend an LAUSD school? Please take our 2-question survey about in-person services and assessments: https://forms.gle/nhfyvQBZnMvJ8nE66.

Our event has started, come and join Long Beach Parents. Nuestro evento a comenzado, venga a nuestro evento para familias de Long Beach.

This has been a difficult few weeks for the Learning Rights family. Two weeks ago our beloved interpreter, Bernadette Buckley, passed away. She was the voice of Learning Rights for families in Oxnard, was amazing with parents and patient and helpful with our staff. She began working on Oxnard cases in 2016, and in the five years since has spent thousands of hours working with parents and frequently working with Learning Rights’ Executive Director and Founder Janeen Steel. Wit...hout her hard work and compassion, the many victories we have achieved for families in Oxnard would not have been possible. She was also a frequent translator for our TIGER program, and built friendships with TIGER parents and staff. She will be sorely missed by everyone who was lucky enough to work with her. A memorial service has not yet been set up, but we will pass on any relevant information once it is available. Unfortunately this was not the only difficult news last week. Jesus Montoya, husband of Suaya Montoya, passed away two weeks ago. Suaya and her sons Manolo and Antonio have been mainstays of the TIGER Program for years, and Manolo and Antonio have performed at A Cause For Celebration and spoken at TIGER Town Hall. Jesus was loved deeply by his family and we are heartbroken with them. We know this has been a year filled with loss for many of us, but we share the Montoya family GoFundMe in hopes that we can ease the burden of funeral and medical costs. Suaya and her sons have been dedicated supporters of Learning Rights and the TIGER Program, and we are going to do everything we can to support them during this difficult time.

Attention LAUSD parents! LAUSD has announced that effective March 4, 2021, it will provide in-person special education related services, tutoring, and assessments as appropriate. For more information, you may contact your school site’s special education administrator, call LAUSD at (213) 241- 6701, and/or visit LAUSD’s website at https://achieve.lausd.net/sped. If you experience issues accessing these services, please contact Learning Rights at [email protected] or 213-623-4794.

Online event for parents who have students in the Long Beach Unified School District about Mental Health . Evento en linea para padres que tienen estudiantes en el Distrito Unificado de Long Beach sobre Salud Mental.

Join us today in reflecting on the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., whose fight for equality remains an inspiration.

Learning Rights' Executive Director Randi Sunshine is excited to announce that Alexis Casillas will serve as the organization's next Legal Director. For more information about Casillas, visit www.learningrights.org/blog. If you want to see her in action, she will be a panelist on a webinar next Tuesday, March 9th about the impact of school closures on children with disabilities. You can register at the link below. We hope to see you there!... https://us02web.zoom.us//register/WN_qNK4INEaQU6lhyQyvRGoIw

Los Angeles Unified School District needs to comply with the law to help our most vulnerable students. Alliance for Children's Rights, Learning Rights Law Center, and Milbank LLP filed suit today in the California Supreme Court forcing #LAUSD to fulfill its obligation to safely mitigate learning loss for students with special needs. bit.ly/acrlausd

Does your child attend Long Beach Unified School District? If so please join us for a Town Hall on March 12th!

Learning Rights is proud to announce Randi Sunshine as the organization's new Executive Director! "Sunshine comes to Learning Rights Law Center with extensive experience in fundraising, marketing, board development, community outreach, diversity sensitivity, communications and organizational management within the social justice sector." Read more about what Sunshine brings to Learning Rights:

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Please join Learning Rights Law Center today for Giving Tuesday, a national day of generosity. With your help we will be able to continue to secure the essential resources necessary for the education of children with disabilities or who face discrimination.

Giving Tuesday is only a few days away! Together we can positively impact the lives of thousands of economically disadvantaged children and their families. Learning Rights Law Center fights to achieve education equity for underserved families in Los Angeles and surrounding counties. We provide free and low-cost legal representation, advice, advocacy and training to children, their families and communities who, as a consequence of disability or discrimination, have been denied equal access to a public education.

We were so lucky to be able to work with Guardians of the Angeles and the Tichenor Clinic for Children to distribute PPE last Friday. Thank you to our wonderful staff for volunteering and to everyone at Tichenor and Guardians of the Angeles for making this possible!

The Learning Rights Law Center Board of Directors is pleased to announce that it has started a nationwide search for a new Executive Director. It is with a mix of sadness, admiration and gratitude that we also announce our esteemed founding Executive Director Janeen Steel has decided to retire from this position. A link to the job posting is below. Learning Rights was founded to achieve education equity for underserved students by providing free and low-cost legal representat...Continue reading

If you need PPE - including face masks and hand sanitizer - our staff is giving away personal protective equipment FREE on Friday, November 13th from 1-3 at the Tichenor Clinic for Children in Long Beach. We hope to see you there! Big thank you to Guardians of the Angeles for supplying free PPE for our families!

Learning Rights is deeply saddened to hear the news that Alex Trebek passed away early this morning. Alex and his family have been incredibly generous in supporting our work and the families we serve, and we were so lucky to witness Alex's wit and the joy he brought to his family and everyone he interacted with. We wish all the best to Jean and the rest of the Trebek family, and ask that you hold them in your hearts tonight.