Maree Sneed
Maree Sneed's practice is principally in the education and litigation areas, and includes advising school districts throughout the country on a variety of legal issues, including the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, student assignment (including choice and magnet schools), court-ordered and voluntary school desegregation, special education, English Language Learner programs, educational equity, single sex schools and programs, sexual harassment, school finance, and superintendent's contracts.
Maree is a lecturer at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. As a lecturer, she teaches a school law course as part of the Urban Superintendent's Doctoral Program. In addition, she serves on the faculty of the Broad Foundation's Urban Superintendent's Academy.
Maree has spoken at numerous conferences for such professional organizations as the National School Board Association, the Council of the Great City Schools, the American Association of School Administrators and Magnet Schools of America. She has published articles in professional publications on a variety of issues that affect school districts. She has been active in the Magnet Schools of America (MSA) and has received two awards from that group for her work on magnet schools throughout the country. Maree has served on the board of directors of the Council of School Attorneys and as co-chair of the Council of School Attorneys' Urban Law Committee.
Prior to attending law school, Maree taught at the high school level in Norman, Oklahoma, and in Montgomery County, Maryland. She was also a secondary principal and assistant principal and a supervisor of gifted and alternative programs in the Montgomery County Public Schools.