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April 18, 2023

Cedar Wins Stay Put Order Requiring Travel Escorts for Student Placed Out of State

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 […]
March 14, 2023

IEP Meetings

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 […]
November 18, 2022

Class Action Civil Rights Complaint Filed Against OSPI and Superintendent Chris Reykdal in Order to Expand Eligibility for Special Education Services

(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 […]
October 12, 2022

UW Paid Out Six Figures to Keep Me from Reading Their Law School Syllabi

I am the senior paralegal at Cedar Law PLLC, a Rule 9 Intern, and a law clerk studying to be an attorney through Washington state’s APR6 […]
May 24, 2022

Washington is sending youth in crisis to out-of-state boarding schools

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 […]
March 1, 2022

Announcing KEEP Washington

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 […]
December 9, 2021

Civil Rights Volunteer Opportunity – Free Training!

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 […]
September 27, 2021

Dueling Perspectives on Dyslexia Interventions – and A Strong Result for a WA Family

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 […]
September 27, 2021

Dyslexia Screening Starts in the 2021–2022 School Year

Overview In 2018, the Washington state legislature created the Dyslexia Advisory Council to develop best practices and sample educational information for parents and educators. The Dyslexia […]