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See, Ed. Law Blogs Have a Purpose

By Justin Bathon

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Here is a testimonial from Lon in Oregon on using special education law blogs in his practice as an educator. Although it refers to a different educational law blog, the idea behind it (especially the 3rd paragraph below) is exactly why I publish here.

I have had several comments, emails and conversations come up recently that have led to issues of special education law. I know enough about it to (hopefully) stay in compliance when I am working on cases within our schools and regional programs but there are probably things that we do as professionals unknowingly that are on the edge...

I am finishing up a two-year school administration program through Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. My School Law class was taught by a former principal who is now in a District Office in a supervisory role. He was witty, knowledgable and a great example of what I think a school administrator should be like. he taught me a lot about how to think in cases that could be full of potential landmines.

So where can we go for legal information? If you have an attorney in the family, that's nice, but special education law is a niche that needs specific knowledge. I refer to a blog site called: "Special EducationLaw Blog." This blog is a resource for case examples, advice, news and parent advocacy by Charles P. Fox, an attorney in Chicago, Illinois. He has other guest authors as well. I am putting his link on my important links list on the sidebar. I would highly recommend going there if you are researching something of a legal nature.

Using Lon's words ... educational law is a "niche that needs specific knowledge." Even his professor, a former principal needs access to this niche of specific knowledge before he can pass it along to his students. Most of that knowledge is not freely available on the Internet, and if it is, it is not centralized for easy access. This is where blogs are stepping in. Blogs bring information to a central resource, from which it can be redispersed in the near term and categorized and filed for the long term. There are only a few of us bloggers toiling away at the moment, but the pool of educational law bloggers is rapidly expanding (it easily doubled in the last year). As the pool expands and the amount of knowledge and information deepen, educational law blogs will be a central resource for educators, just as it is for Lon in Oregon. Thanks Lon, for the post.

Full post as published by Edjurist on March 01, 2008 (boomark / email).