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Article: Justice teaching: the initiative will send volunteer judges and lawyers into classrooms.(Fred Lewis' Justice Teaching program)
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- Florida Bar News
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- October 1, 2006
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Early next year, Chief Justice Fred Lewis wants to have legal professionals trained and ready to begin dispensing information about the fundamental principles of our democracy to Florida students--one school at a time.
Judges and Bar leaders from across the state gathered in Tampa last month to begin planning the implementation of Lewis' Justice Teaching program, which he has described as the cornerstone of his two-year administration and has an ultimate goal of pairing a judge, lawyer, or other law-related professional with every elementary, middle, and high school in the state.
Lewis--who since joining the court in 1998 has regularly visited ...