American Civil Liberties Union
ACLU Drops Community Education Partners from Federal Lawsuit After Atlanta Severs Contract
Published in Lab Law Weekly, August 14th, 2009
After the Atlanta Independent School System (AISS) severed its contract with Community Education Partners, Inc. (CEP) to run the city's alternative school, the American Civil Liberties Union today dropped the private, for-profit company from its federal lawsuit challenging the inadequate education provided by the school to its students. AISS declined to renew its $7 million annual contract with CEP to run the school - one of the most dangerous and lowest performing in the state - after the ACLU and the ACLU of Georgia filed a lawsuit last year against CEP and AISS for violating students' constitutional rights.
AISS remains a defendant in the lawsuit and now bears full...
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Source: Lab Law Weekly (2009-08-14)
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