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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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Organization News Sheilah D. Vance, Esq., IFEEO Exec. Dir., will serve as moderator
for the Congressional Black Caucus Education Braintrust titled, "Disparities in Education: A Roadmap for the Next
Four Years", on Thursday, September 25 from 1 - 3:30 p.m. at the Washington Convention Center, Room 154(AB). Panelists
include Dr. Oscar Barbarin, Prof., Univ. of N. Carolina Chapel Hill; Sharon Lewis, Sr. Policy Advisor, U.S. House of Rep.
Ed. and Labor Cmte.; David Sciarra, Exec. Dir, Ed. Law Center; Dr. Lester Young, Prof. Long Island University; Rufus Williams,
Pres., Chicago Bd. of Ed.; Hilary Shelton, Dir., NAACP Wash. Bureau; Bob Wise, Pres. Alliance for Excellent Education.
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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