education rights
Every student has the right to educational opportunity—including access to special education and a higher education free of fraud.
Each student is unique, but they all have one thing in common: the right to a quality education. Unfortunately, students are often denied this right. For example, schools often fail to provide necessary and appropriate educational services and evaluations to children with disabilities, in violation of federal and state laws.
Scam for-profit schools dupe college students with limited financial resources into enrolling and taking on crushing student loan debt. Educational records don’t correctly reflect the names and genders of transgender students. These harms and so many others jeopardize students’ futures.
Services
Our lawyers stand with students who need the legal system to right educational injustices. Here is how our lawyers can help:
- Representing students fighting for critical special education benefits
- Bringing class action lawsuits against predatory for-profit schools and regulators that fail to protect students
- Helping veterans access the educational benefits they earned through their service
- Advocating for LGBTQ students facing bullying and misgendering in school
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NYLAG’s latest immigration resource to assert protection from expedited removal and/or request a credible fear interview

Chalkbeat: In rebuke of Trump, NYC files legal brief in support of Bronx student detained by ICE
On June 2, NYC’s Law Department filed a brief in support of NYLAG’s legal effort to bring Dylan home from ICE detention.

Chalkbeat: Lawyers for Bronx high school student detained by ICE file petition for immediate release
On May 29, NYLAG attorneys filed a habeas corpus petition in federal court to call for Dylan’s immediate release after ICE illegally detained him from immigration court one week earlier.