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Our Mission
The Institute for Educational Equity & Opportunity (“IFEEO”) is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, organization
dedicated to the pursuit of educational equity and opportunity, particularly for disadvantaged United States’ public
school children through legal means. The IFEEO is especially interested in fair and equitable public school finance laws.
Towards this end, IFEEO is concentrating its efforts towards the creation and implementation of four main projects:
1) the study of the history of the education clause in the state constitutions of all fifty states;
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creation of the IFEEO Legal Fellowship and Summer Associate Award;
3) implementation of the IFEEO Educational
Archives Project;
4) grants to counsel for plaintiffs for assistance with drafting an article regarding school
equity and finance litigation.
For more detailed information on IFEEO or additional information regarding any
of our current projects, fellowships/summer associate, grants, etc., please click the appropriate link on this page or About
Us.
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Praise for Education in the 50 States "Thanks to IFEEO for researching and publishing "Education in the 50
States." At Education Justice, we rely on this, IFEEO's first book, as a valuable resource in our
advocacy for better educational opportunities across the country. "Education in the 50 States" is an excellent
account of the exceptionally high regard for broad, public education on the part of the nation's founders, and throughout
the subsequent history and development of each state and the United States. We cited your book in our amicus brief to
the Oregon Supreme Court earlier this year, and we are doing the same in our amicus for the Missouri Supreme Court that will
be filed next week. "Education in the 50 States" has already proven extremely helpful in connecting
the educational philosophy and language of the Eighteenth Century to current state constitutional language in the Twenty-first
Century. The emphasis on the need to educate all citizens well ("the diffusion of knowledge among the people) in
order to preserve their rights and liberties and a republican form of government sets a high standard for all state education
systems to this day. Thanks again for documenting in this book the crucial underpinnings that education provides
for sustaining our democracy." Molly
A. Hunter, Esq., Director, Education
Justice
Education Law Center, Newark, New Jersey
Standing Up for Public School Children
Organization News Sheilah D. Vance, Esq., IFEEO Exec. Dir., will speak about "Education
in the 50 States" at the Education Policy Committee Meeting at the National Foundation of Women Legislators, on
Saturday, November 22, 2008, at their annual conference in Sarasota, Florida. Executive Director Sheilah D. Vance,
Esq., spoke on the panel, "Strategies to Achieve Resource Equity", on October 5, 2008 in Washington, DC at the National
Opportunity to Learn Education Summit, sponsored by The Schott Foundation.
We are pleased to announce the release
of the Institute for Educational Equity and Opportunity's first research
report, Education in the 50 States: A Deskbook of the History of State Constitutions and Laws About Education, which was prepared by the Public Interest Law Center under a grant award. Click on the link
below for more information.
Education in the 50 States report.
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Executive Director Sheilah Vance, Esq.'s article, "Beyond
Segregation: The Continuing Struggle for Educational Equity 50 Years After Brown v. Board of Education", is published
in The Sage Handbook of African American Education, which was released in July 2008 by Sage Publications. For
more information on the Handbook, which includes 30 articles, see www.sagepub.com.
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Questions or comments? Get in touch with us at:
info@ifeeo.org
Mailing Address:
Washington Office
1200 G Street, NW
Suite 800
Washington, DC 20005
202-434-8792 (p)
202-434-8707 (f)
Philadelphia Office
The Land Title Building
100 S. Broad Street, Suite 1530
Philadelphia,
PA 19110
215-557-6224 (p) 215-557-9552 (f)
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