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Massachusetts Families Urges Court to Reverse Ruling Over Unconstitutional Conditions for Special Education Services

The Institute of Justice and PNELF filed a federal constitutional challenge to Massachusetts’s denial of special education services to children whose parents exercise their fundamental right to enroll them in private school.

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Pioneer New England Legal Foundation (PNELF) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan legal research and litigation entity, organized under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. PNELF is a public-interest law firm that defends and promotes educational options, accountable government and economic opportunity across the Northeast and around the country. Through legal action and public education, PNELF works to preserve and enhance liberties grounded in the constitutions and civil rights laws of the United States and the individual New England states.

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With the partisan divide, policy making on crucial topics can be challenging. To accelerate social progress, we work to bring policy questions to a dispassionate, fact-based forum — the judiciary.

Pioneer Public Interest Law Center is nonpartisan and takes a professional approach in its efforts to protect the rights of New Englanders and all Americans to pursue their lives as free and responsible citizens.

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Pioneer New England Legal Foundation is a non-partisan, public interest law firm that defends and promotes educational options, accountable government and economic opportunity across the Northeast. Pioneer New England Legal Foundation achieves its mission through legal research, amicus briefs, and litigation.