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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New York Legal Assistance Group Appoints Anna Luft as Associate Director for Housing Policy and Advocacy
The newly created role will expand the scope of Luft’s policy advocacy and community work to include private housing and intersecting issue areas.

Chloe Chik Joins New York Legal Assistance Group as Communications Director
Chik was Press Secretary and Chief Spokesperson to the City Comptroller.

amNY: ‘Brink of collapse’: NYC legal services provider says city owes $20M in backpay
City contract payment issues and chronic delays continue to threaten legal service providers’ ability to provide critical services to hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers in need. The consequences of these delays are severe, and the need for a swift and complete resolution to this long-standing contracting issue is more urgent than ever.