Alternative Schooling and School Choice

Allan G. Osborne, Jr. is the former the Principal of the Snug Harbor Community School in Quincy, Massachusetts. Retired after 34 years as a special education teacher and school administrator, he is currently spends his time writing and teaching graduate courses in school law and special education law. He received his doctorate in educational leadership from Boston College. Allan Osborne has authored or coauthored numerous articles, monographs, textbooks, and textbook chapters on special education law, along with textbooks on other aspects of special education. A past President of the Education Law Association (ELA) and recipient of the McGhehey Award for lifetime achievement in educational law, he has been a frequent presenter at ELA conferences and writes the "Students with Disabilities" chapter of the Yearbook of Education Law, which is published by ELA. Allan Osborne is on the Editorial Advisory Committee of West's Education Law Reporter and is coeditor of the "Education Law Into Practice" section of that journal. He also serves as an editorial consultant for many other publications in education law, administration, and special education. Charles J. Russo, is the Joseph Panzer Chair in Education in the School of Education and Allied Professions and Adjunct Professor in the School of Law at the University of Dayton, Ohio. The 1998-1999 President of the Education Law Association and 2002 recipient of its McGhehey (Lifetime Achievement) Award, he is the author of almost 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals and the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of 32 books. He has been the editor of the Yearbook of Education Law for the Education Law Association since 1995 and has written or coauthored almost 700 publications; he is also the editor of two academic journals and serves as a member of more than a dozen editorial boards. He has spoken and taught extensively on issues in Education Law in the United States and in twenty-two other Nations on all six inhabited