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Public Interest

May 27, 2009

Class Act: Lawyers Team Up to Clean Up Schools

Attorneys around the Bay Area have been volunteering their time to make school districts fix often-dangerous problems in and out of classrooms.

By Amy Yarbrough
Daily Journal Staff Writer

OAKLAND - Jack Kriss liked a lot of things about his sixth-grade year at Claremont Middle School such as playing trumpet in advanced band and walking to school in the morning with his friends.

Using the Oakland school's bathroom, however, was a low point.

The restrooms there weren't just dirty. They smelled and often lacked toilet paper, and some stalls didn't have doors on them. The then-12-yea...

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