Overview

Martha (Mattie) Buell Scott is Of Counsel in Lozano Smith's Monterey office. She has practiced education law in California for more than 30 years. Her practice crosses a variety of subject areas, including general education, labor and employment, special education, student issues, school finance, school district reorganization, federal and state constitutional issues, and the laws relating to English language learners. She also advises school districts on all matters concerning charter schools, including petition review, oversight, revocation, and charter school facilities requests under Proposition 39.

Her background also includes five years of solo practice in education law. Before that, she was first an associate and then a partner with Breon, Galgani, Godino & O'Donnell.

Articles

Ms. Scott is active in the International Association for the Semiotics of Law. Some of her publications include: "Love, Lust, Lies, Mozart, and the Office of the Special Prosecutor," We, the People, 1999; "A Functional Examination of Hate Speech," Semiotics, 1997; "We, the People: Revolution and Authorial Identity," Revolutions, Institutions, Law, 1998; and "Sexual Harassment: A Semiotic Perspective," Semiotics, 1996.

Education

Ms. Scott received her law degree from the University of San Francisco School of Law and a Masters degree in English, with an emphasis in Creative Writing, from San Francisco State University.

Looking at the Bottom Line - How California's State Budget Process Directly Impacts Your School District's Options

By: Karen Rezendes, Martha Scott- 06/21/2019

Host Devon Lincoln talks with veteran experts Karen Rezendes and Mattie Scott about the California budget process, Governor Newsom's first State budget (just passed on June 13), and the high stakes local school districts face when planning around the annual budget process.

Are We There Yet? The Long March Toward Equity and Equality in School Finance

By: Karen Rezendes, Martha Scott- 01/14/2019

Following the release of the new California governor's first proposed budget, Lozano Smith attorneys Devon Lincoln, Karen Rezendes and Mattie Scott sit down to discuss the long history of school finance in the state and how that history reverberates in our schools today - and why the issue should matter to every Californian.