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Immigration and Special Education: Rights of Undocumented Students and Common Legal Issues

Single On-Demand Viewer

Immigration and Special Education: Rights of Undocumented Students and Common Legal Issues

Presenter:

Session 
Length:

Erin D. Gilsbach, Esq. 

90 Minutes

Cost: 

Single On-Demand Viewer

Group Rate (Up to 25)

Group Rate (26-50)

$25.00

$500.00

$1000.00

Group Rate (50+)

$20000.00

Program Information:

Schools across the nation are dealing with an influx of undocumented students, who have specific rights with regards to public education. Such students often have complicated needs, particularly if they are students with disabilities. In this session, special education attorney Erin D. Gilsbach discusses the rights of undocumented special education students and their parents under state and federal law and answers common legal questions. She discusses such legal issues as obligations to parents and students related to language barriers, child find obligations and the specific challenges that may be posed by English language learners with underlying special needs, health-related issues, coordination of services between school and home, the potential implications of involvement of law enforcement in behavioral and disciplinary actions, and other important topics. This is a key session for educators seeking to better understand the legal complexities of educating undocumented students with special needs.

About the Presenter:

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     Erin D. Gilsbach, Esq., a practicing school law attorney and Executive Director of EdLaw Interactive, is an experienced speaker and writer at the state and national levels on current trends and important issues regarding school law and education.  She is also a highly-skilled professional development expert who provides school law training in live and web-based formats to educators and school leaders nationally and throughout her home state of Pennsylvania.  In addition to working with schools, Atty. Gilsbach devotes a great deal of time to working with other school law attorneys, providing continuing legal education (CLE) trainings for school law attorneys on new and emerging legal issues in the field of education law. â€‹

     Atty. Gilsbach has extensive experience working with schools and providing proactive professional development programs for school attorneys and school leaders on legally-defensible practices.  She has provided legal representation and/or professional development to over 150 public, private, and charter schools.  Atty. Gilsbach is Past-President of the PA School Boards Association (PSBA) Solicitor’s Association and a member of the Board of Directors of the National School Boards Association (NSBA) Council of School Attorneys.  She is also a frequent writer and presenter with PSBA, NSBA, NSBA’s Council of School Attorneys (COSA), and the National Business Institute (NBI).  She was voted a Rising Star Attorney by her peers in Superlawyers and Philadelphia magazines for five consecutive years and was selected as 2018’s Distinguished Speaker by the Missouri Council of Administrators of Special Education.

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