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Faust Participating in Pennsylvania Association for Gifted Education Conference

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(Wilkes-Barre, PA) - Partner Andy Faust of Sweet, Stevens, Katz & Williams will participate as a session presenter in the 2017 Conference of the Pennsylvania Association for Gifted Education (PAGE), scheduled for November 16-17 at the Mohegan Sun Convention Center.

Faust is a widely-recognized authority in the areas of special education, student services and child accounting, and student civil rights. He has represented school districts and intermediate units at every level of the federal and state judicial and administrative systems, lectured widely to audiences of educators and attorneys, and testified as an expert witness in court proceedings and before state and federal agencies.

PAGE is a nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to working with parents, teachers and administrators to help gifted learners in the commonwealth reach their full potential. Offerings include a free helpline, local affiliate groups, conferences/education and advocacy. PAGE, working with state legislators and members of the Pennsylvania Department of Education fostered the passage of Chapter 16 in the Pennsylvania School Code, “Special Education for the Gifted,” which the association calls one of the strongest guidelines of its kind in the nation.

For more information or to register, visit: https://www.giftedpage.org/.

Sweet, Stevens, Katz & Williams, LLP was formed in 1995 by nine experienced education lawyers who created the first private law practice in Pennsylvania dedicated entirely to Education Law. Since then, the firm has grown to 16 attorneys who represent over 290 school and municipal entities as Solicitors or as Special Counsel in more than 50 counties throughout Pennsylvania.