In school districts’ across the country, students are being are being pushed out of public schools at alarming rates. Students with disabilities have a national dropout rate that is twice as high as students without disabilities. African- American students are nearly three times more likely to be suspended and expelled than their white peers. Without access to counsel low income and working class youth and their families are unable to enforce their rights, school districts are free to ignore them, and in some cases actively work to get around them.