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Article: Lewis names Select Committee on Justice Teaching: one goal is to ensure at least one judge or other legal professional is paired with each school in Florida.
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- Florida Bar News
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- August 15, 2006
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Chief Justice Fred Lewis has established a Select Committee on Justice Teaching to advise the court as it devises educational programs concerning the legal system and overseeing the implementation of partner ships between the courts and Florida's schools.
Chief Justice Lewis will chair the panel, created by a July 24 administrative order, that will work in partnership with attorneys, court managers, superintendents, school districts, boards of education, teachers, school administrators, the Florida Law Related Education Association, and other organizations.
In the order, Lewis said state and national surveys suggest that citizens in general know little ...