Lara Hruska Cedar Law, in partnership with Seattle Litigation Group, is proud to announce a significant legal win on behalf of students with disabilities harmed while attending the Northwest School of Innovative Learning (NW SOIL). The court has allowed our clients’ claims under the Washington Law Against Discrimination (WLAD) to proceed against NW SOIL, Tacoma Public Schools, … Read more
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Today we received a unanimous, published Ninth Circuit decision that exiting disabled Washington students from IEPs prior to their 22nd birthdays likely violates federal law and causes “irreparable harm” to those students. As a result of this ruling, we expect that OSPI and therefore all Washington school districts will be enjoined from aging out … Read more
On February 14, 2023, ALJ Matthew Wacker ordered that a School District in Washington State arrange for, fund, and provide a student a Student Travel Escort (STE) to accompany our 16-year-old client with autism during her visits between home and her residential placement in order to implement her stay-put program for an out-of-state IEP placement. … Read more
IEP meetings can be overwhelming, but don’t have to be! Join our founding partner Lara Hruska in this comprehensive video as she walks you through the whole process, including who to invite to your meeting (yes, your child can be there!), how to set measurable goals, and ultimately how to get the accommodations they need to grow … Read more
(Seattle, WA) – The law offices of Susman Godfrey L.L.P. and Cedar Law PLLC have filed a civil rights class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington on behalf of all Washington students eligible for special education services who “aged out” of special education under Washington law. The … Read more
NWNews | By Austin JenkinsPublished May 23, 2022 at 2:12 PM PDT Some parents with kids in crisis in Washington are making a heart wrenching decision. They’re sending their children to out-of-state therapeutic boarding schools. And taxpayers are picking up the tab. While these are outlier cases, they highlight ongoing gaps in in-state services — gaps that … Read more
In January, Cedar Law PLLC’s founding partners, Lara Hruska and Chris Williams, spoke at the launch event for KEEP (Kienan Ellis Education Project). KEEP was founded by a former Cedar Law client with the vision of creating a public-defender-like system for school discipline in Seattle. The non-profit connects students facing exclusionary discipline with an attorney-volunteer … Read more
Stop the School-to-Prison Pipeline in its “infancy.” A Goal of the Kienan Ellis Education Project (KEEP) is Stopping The School-to-Prison Pipeline, with a service area focusing on Seattle Public Schools. To Meet That Goal: Attorneys are needed to represent students in school discipline hearings to ensure equitable and appropriate educational outcomes. Attorneys are needed to represent students … Read more
Dyslexia is a language-based learning disability that refers to a cluster of symptoms, which result in difficulty with specific language skills, including reading, spelling, writing, and pronouncing words. Some students with dyslexia may also have difficulty with math, specifically memorizing number facts and correctly doing word problems. [1] The primary sign of dyslexia is if … Read more