Flannery said that about half of the CLE's activities are concerned with litigation, about 20 per cent with legislative counselling and about 30 per cent in research and publications.
Inequality In Education, a quarterly magazine, is published by the CLE.
Internal Controversy
Two years ago, the Center was the object of an investigation, led by then acting dean of the Law School Albert M. Sacks, after the center became embroiled in a bitter internal controversy, which some said involved the direction that it would take.
David L. Kirp, then director of the CLE, fired 5 out of 11 staff attorneys. He denied, though, that the action resulted from policy differences with the five attorneys.
Several CLE lawyers claimed at the time that the firings were caused by Kirp's desire to move the Center away from litigation and toward an increasing emphasis on research.
Flannery said that the investigation is "ancient history" now. He said that some organizational changes resulted from it, but that "the Center's priorities and direction were almost no part of the inquiry."
"It was a personal dispute," he said, "between people who didn't see eye to eye on many things."
He added that Kirp left the CLE a few months after the controversy.
Operations at the Center seem to be continuing normally, despite the uncertain status of its funding.
In its litigation efforts, the CLE won a court decision this week, allowing it to name President Nixon as a defendant in a civil suit involving impoundment of funds for Indian schools.
Rosenfelt said that this was "the first case in which the judicial branch ruled that it has jurisdiction over the President."
Model for Others
Closer to home, Flannery said that two CLE lawyers recently drafted the Massachusetts Bilingual Education Act, which he said has served as a model for other states as well.
He said that CLE lawyers had submitted briefs in a California case which struck down state appropriations for parochial schools.
CLE lawyers are working on a wide range of other cases, including a suit to force the Federal government to build more schools for Alaskan Eskimos