The Right to an Education, Housing and Care Under the NYS Constitution

1. Article XI — Education and CFE: (a) Evan Davis; (b) Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick; and (c) Michael Rebell

2. Article XVII — Rights of the disabled: Roger Bearden (Exec Deputy Com'r of the NYS Office for People with Developmental Disabilities and former head of the Disability Law Center of New York Lawyers for the Public Interest).

3. Article XVII — Rights of the homeless/to housing: Joshua Goldfein (Attorney at New York Legal Aid Society who has been and is the lead litigator on housing rights issues in NYC including recent cases involving housing COVID homeless and immigrants — litigated the constitutional issues we would be addressing).

Speakers

Michael A. Rebell, Professor and Executive Director, Center for Educational Equity, Teachers College, Columbia University

Joshua Goldfein, Staff Attorney, The Legal Aid Society

Roger Bearden, Executive Deputy Commissioner, NYS Office for People with Developmental Disabilities

Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick, Co-Chair of the National Appeals & Legal Issues Group, Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Evan A. Davis, Senior Counsel, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP