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History
Janeen Steel grew up in Los Angeles. In 1981, at the age of 18 she graduated from Hollywood High Adult School, but still felt disconnected from learning and over the 6 years after high school Ms. Steel lived a life of self-destruction. Then she hit bottom, sick and living with friends – she knew life had to change.
Mission
Learning Rights Law Center (LRLC), officially founded in 2005, is an independent non-profit organization, whose sole mission is ensuring that all students are provided with equitable access to the public education system, with a focus towards students involved in the welfare and/or juvenile justice systems; students with learning disabilities and/or learning difficulties; and students not accessing the public school system because of language, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, homeless or inadequate facilities.
Purpose
Learning Rights provides free legal assistance and education to ensure equitable access to appropriate public education for any student, especially those students with disabilities or learning difficulties, and students involved in or at risk of involvement in the child-welfare and/or juvenile justice systems.
How We Can Help You
Learning Rights Law Center is committed to helping students receive an equitable public education by assisting families to resolve their child’s education issues and helping them gain access to an appropriate education and needed services. Our services are available to low-income students and their families.
How You Can Help Us
There are several ways to help us. You can make a monetary donation using PayPal by going to our donations page. Or, you can make an in-kind donation.
Strategic Plan
I. Strengthen Current Programs
Learning Rights Law Center is a leader in best practices of education advocacy. In just 6 years, Learning Rights has become well known for its work with children/youth with disabilities, children/youth in the juvenile justice and foster care systems. We believe that we need to strengthen our current programs to continue our much needed work and expand our representation to assist more families.
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Janeen Steel earned her undergraduate degrees from Long Beach City College in 1990 and San Francisco State University in 1993. Ms. Steel went on to earn her Juris Doctor degree from University of California, Los Angeles in 1999. Prior to graduation, Ms. Steel received the UCLA Law Raza Alumni Association Cesar Chaver Summer Fellowship to create the blueprint for her future – the Learning Rights Manual, an advocacy guide for families of students with learning disabilities. While at UCLA she also had the honor to be named the President of the Disability Law Society. In 1999, Ms. Steel received an Echoing Green Fellowship, which allowed her to take the Learning Rights Manual and create Learning Rights, an advocacy program for children with learning difficulties not accessing the public school system.
Board of Directors
Alicia Minana Lovelace, Chair
Alicia Miñana has spent 17 years as a practicing transactional attorney including the areas of formation and dissolution of corporations, affordable housing transactions, and employment agreements. She has worked with a Federal agency and with national law firms, as well as in firms located in Singapore and Puerto Rico.
Supporters
Individuals
Sabrina Abu-Hamdeh
Casey Aisenman & Liz Moya
John Allen
Shayne Aloe-Chase
