Jane Wettach pleads at the North Carolina Supreme Court

The North Carolina Supreme Court in March is scheduled to hear oral arguments in a Beaufort County-based lawsuit that could affect the future of students who are suspended from public schools for long periods of time across North Carolina and the local school boards that hand down such suspensions.

At issue is the right of students who receive long-term suspensions to have access to an alternative education during their time away from school. Existing state law leaves such access to the discretion of local school boards. (...)
“More than 5,000 students in North Carolina were suspended from school long-term last year, excluded entirely from both the regular school building and alternative school. ... Unless the school system can show that this banishment was necessary to promote a compelling governmental interest, it directly offends our Constitution,” writes Jane Wettach, a lawyer for the students, in an appellate brief to the Supreme Court. (...)

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February 18.: Jane Wettach at the Key School Workshop on Dyslexia, ADHD, and the Law

Key School Workshop on Dyslexia, ADHD, and the Law from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Carolina Day School, Hendersonville Road, Asheville. The Key Learning Center sponsors a community outreach seminar, "Dyslexia, ADHD, and the Law." Dr. James G. Ward, Jr., a pediatrician and a member of the board of the International Dyslexia Association and Jane Wettach, clinical professor of law and director of the Children's Education Law Clinic of Duke University Law School, lead the program. Appropriate for teachers, tutors, parents and administrators. Call Mary Anna Phillips at 274-3311, e-mail mphillips@cdschool.org or visit www.cdschool.org/academics/keyschool.php.

[ Source: Citizen Times ]

Paul Baldasare heads St.Andrews College - Not just Jane R. Wettach's husband

Paul Baldasare, a 1977 graduate of St. Andrews Presbyterian College, has been named the eighth president for St. Andrews. (...)
Baldasare is married to Jane R. Wettach, clinical professor of law at the Duke University School of Law. They have two children, Gabriel, 18, and Leah, 15. (...)
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