Areas of Practice:
Charter Schools
Student Services & Special Education
Contact:
Oakland office
70 Washington Street, Suite 205
Oakland, California 94607
Phone: 510.550.8200
Fax: 510.550.8211
solsonbrown@fagenfriedman.com
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Shawn Olson Brown is a senior associate in the Oakland office. She specializes in students, special education and charter schools. Prior to joining the firm, she was an associate with another California education law firm. Ms. Olson Brown was also employed with the University of Washington, where she co-taught the law module for the Danforth Educational Leadership Program that provides training for school administrators. In addition, she was a research assistant with Project PRAISE and the Center for Educational Renewal. Ms. Olson Brown was also a bargaining team member with the Graduate Student Employee Action Coalition, a legal intern with the Northwest Justice Project, and research analyst with the Washington State Commission on Student Learning.
Ms. Olson Brown is a member of the California and Washington State Bars. She received her J.D. and M.Ed. from the University of Washington and her B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of such articles as, "A Statewide Review of the Use of Accommodations in Large Scale, High Stakes Assessments," published in the Winter 2001 issue of Exceptional Children, and "Investigating American Sign Language as an Accommodation during Standards-Based Assessments," published in the Winter 2001 issue of Assessment for Effective Intervention.