Charles J. Russo, J.D., Ed.D., is a past-president of the Education Law Association, and is the Joseph Panzer Chair in Education and Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Dayton. He is also Editor-in-Chief of "Education and Urban Society", and serves on the editorial boards of five Education Law journals. Before beginning his career in higher education in 1989, he was a high school teacher for more than 8 years in the New York City metropolitan area.