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Through this fellowship, UDC-DCSL and the wider community of friends, supporters, and advocates remember and honor Mary Hynes and Beth Goodman. Mary, a professor, scholar, and activist, taught in the Juvenile and Special Education Law Clinic at the UDC David A. Clarke School of Law, and she pioneered special education advocacy for children and families in the child welfare system. Beth, an Antioch School of Law graduate and a leading special education attorney locally and nationally, was one of the founders of COPAA, the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates. She also filed and litigated the Petties special education class action in D.C. Mary and Beth died in, respectively, 2001 and 2002.
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Through this fellowship, UDC-DCSL and the wider community of friends, supporters, and advocates remember and honor Mary Hynes and Beth Goodman. Mary, a professor, scholar, and activist, taught in the Juvenile and Special Education Law Clinic at the UDC David A. Clarke School of Law, and she pioneered special education advocacy for children and families in the child welfare system. Beth, an Antioch School of Law graduate and a leading special education attorney locally and nationally, was one of the founders of COPAA, the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates. She also filed and litigated the Petties special education class action in D.C. Mary and Beth died in, respectively, 2001 and 2002.