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New Hampshire law is a jumble of competing and ambiguous provisions regarding which district is responsible for delivering special education, who must pay for services, and who’s in charge when parents are divorced or the student is placed by a juvenile court.

2023 Maine Special Education School Law Summer Institute (Virtual!)

The Institute will be virtual again for 2023 using Zoom, a cloud based video conferencing service. This program has been designed with busy educators in mind. Participants will cover materials that would traditionally be taught in a semester-long course.

2023 Maine School Finance Summer Institute

Portland, ME

This four-day Institute is designed with busy administrators in mind. In a short period of time, participants will cover materials traditionally taught in a semester-long course. This will be accomplished through significant advance reading assignments, two papers (the first submitted before the Institute and the second submitted after), active class discussion, individual and group presentations, and instruction by attorneys from Maine’s premier school law practice as well as by other specialists.

2023 Maine School Law Summer Institute (Virtual!)

Once again, we are taking our School Law Institute virtual for 2023 using Zoom, a cloud-based video-conferencing service. The Institute program has been designed with busy educators in mind, and is led by Drummond Woodsum school attorneys who have years of experience, both practicing and teaching school law.