Stefan Rosenzweig is the Regional Director of the Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education. A graduate of Boalt Hall in 1968, he has been an education attorney ever since, and took his post at the U.S. Dept. of Education in January 1997. Prior to his current position, he served for three years as Executive Director of Public Advocates, a San Francisco based civil rights law firm.. At Public Advocates he monitored the Larry P. v. Riles court order, prohibiting the utilization of IQ tests in placing African-American students into spectial education programs and worked on litigation challenging California’s CBEST examination (AMAE v. California).

From 1989 to 1994, Stefan spent five years in Florida.. There he served as co-counsel in LULAC v. Florida Board of Education, which created the state’s first standards for the education of a diverse and growing population of English language learners. He also helped organize a statewide coalition, Florida Multicultural Network for Educational Rights, to work on the entire gamut of education/civil rights concerns including standards based education reform.

For over two decades he practiced in California, including seven years as Director of Litigation for California Rural Legal Assistance and ten years with the Legal Aid Society of Alameda County. He has also worked for two national legal services support centers, The Harvard Center for Law and Education and the National Center for Youth Law. During this time period he concentrated on litigation, legislation and community education in civil rights issues including bilingual and migrant education. He worked on litigation improving the monitoring and complaint handling procedures of the California Department of Education (Comite v. Honig) and worked with the Department on decreasing the over-representation of Latino students in dead-end special education programs (Diana v. State Bd. of Ed.). Finally, he has represented scores of students and parents before courts, administrative tribunals, and school boards.