SLC represented intervenors of 38 low-income and minority school children and four prominent civil rights groups - NAACP, Spanish American League Against Discrimination, League of United Latin American Citizens, and the Haitian Refugee Center. The suit was brought by 43 school boards against the Legislature and state education agencies. The central claim was that children have the fundamental right to be "adequately provided with a uniform education" under the state constitution's education clause.

The citizens of Florida repeatedly voiced their wishes in the Florida Constitution that the State of Florida provide a high quality public school education. On November 18, 2009, SLC filed a declaratory action under the Florida Constitution on behalf of public school students in Florida against state officials to challenge the failure to provide a high quality education. Plaintiffs were two citizen organizations, a grandmother, parents and students.

When a school board isolated an HIV positive student with developmental disabilities from the general population at the school, SLC submitted an amicus curiae brief on behalf of the Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities (now Disability Rights Florida) that discussed an issue of first impression involving the interrelationship of Rehabilitation Act and Education of Handicapped Act (now IDEA) claims.

When school boards and the Florida Legislature were debating whether to ban corporal punishment, SLC wrote an article detailing the historical perspective, social science, and negative consequences of using this disciplinary method on children with disabilities.