For more information call:
212-678-3291
11/12/2007 ~ 11/13/2007 at Cowin Center, Teachers College
General Counsel and Associate Commissioner
Massachusetts Department of Education
Rhoda E. Schneider is General Counsel and Senior Associate Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Education. For over 25 years she has been the chief legal advisor to the Commissioner, State Board and Department of Education in carrying out their responsibilities to oversee and support education reform in the Massachusetts public schools. Ms. Schneider, who has served twice as Acting Commissioner of Education, is a graduate of Wellesley College and received her J.D. from Boston University Law School. She co-chairs the School Law Institute at Teachers College, Columbia University, and has been a presenter or guest lecturer at many professional conferences and graduate courses for educators and lawyers. She is the editor of the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education book, School Law in Massachusetts.