Story on Education Law Practicum wins award

Susan Ferriss of the Center For Public Integrity has been awarded the 2015 Regional American Gavel Award for Distinguished Reporting for her May 2014 story, “Juvenile Injustice.” Ferriss’s story discusses the efforts of the College of Law’s Education Law Practicum to reform truancy prosecutions of students. Professor Dean Rivkin supervises the Practicum and is quoted extensively in the article, as is cooperating attorney Brenda McGee ‘84.