Attorney Katie Meinelt joins Sankey Law Offices
Sankey Law Offices, P.C. is happy to announce that Katie Meinelt has recently joined the firm. Katie was previously a partner at Stoneman, Chandler & Miller LLP where she represented public schools and charter schools for over six years. She specializes in all areas of education law including special education, student discipline, Section 504, bullying, policy and handbook development, and all other general school law matters. Katie earned her law degree from Suffolk University Law School in Boston, MA. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Master of Arts in English Literature from the University of New Hampshire. Prior to attending law school, Katie was a middle school English teacher. Katie was a cross country, indoor, and outdoor track athlete in college. She has run 13 marathons, including 11 Boston Marathons. She is on the board of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute’s marathon team and actively raises money for Dana Farber and the Jimmy Fund. Katie lives in Winchester with her husband, son and dog. Feel free to contact Katie at kmeinelt@sankeylaw.com or 781-930-3127. For more information, please contact us at 781-930-3127. Notice: JavaScript is required for this content.
Read MoreRecognizing Dyslexia Awareness Month
October is Dyslexia Awareness Month. Special Education Attorney Jeff Sankey is pleased to announce that he has become a member of the International Dyslexia Association. The International Dyslexia Association is an international organization that concerns itself with the complex issues of dyslexia. The Association’s membership consists of a variety of professionals in partnership with people with dyslexia and their families. For a great source of information about dyslexia, turn to the Association’s website at http://www.interdys.org/. Despite federal and state laws mandating that public schools provide a free and appropriate education to all students, this often does not happen for many children with dyslexia. We share the Association’s guiding principles that all children with learning disabilities have the right to achieve their potential and that a child’s learning abilities can be improved with effective remediation. With so many of the youngsters that we represent struggling to learn to read, we are acutely aware of the process that families often need to negotiate in order to obtain necessary services for their dyslexic children. We are proud that our efforts on behalf of these children have resulted in orders from the Massachusetts Bureau of Special Education Appeals providing them with access to specialized placements designed to remediate their learning disabilities. In fact, we recently prevailed in a case against a Massachusetts school district on behalf of a child with Dyslexia, obtaining funding for an appropriate out-of-district placement. The full decision can be accessed here: Student v. Greenwood Public Schools For more information, please contact us at 781-930-3127. Notice: JavaScript is required for this content.
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