On Thursday, February 18, 2021, Pam Simaga will outline how school boards can protect property tax revenues as the COVID-19 crisis and other issues continue in an upcoming Illinois Association of School Boards (IASB) webinar, “Challenges to Property Tax Assessments and Protecting School District Revenues.”
Pamela E. Simaga
A teacher formerly employed by Waukegan Community Unit School District No. 60 filed a lawsuit alleging that the school board improperly dismissed him by erroneously determining that his conduct was…
Jen Deutch and Pam Simaga will present legal and legislative updates (non-COVID) at the IAASE Region 1/Roundtable on January 19, 2021.
In Mohorn-Mintah v. Board of Education of the City of Chicago, an Illinois appellate court agreed that the school board had the implied authority to suspend a tenured teacher without…
On November 6, 2020, an Illinois appellate court reversed a Kane County trial court’s grant of a temporary restraining order blocking the enforcement of Governor Pritzker’s Executive Order 2020-61 as…
Due to the increasing dependence on remote-work arrangements as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a guidance memorandum to all employers regarding the requirement…
On July 28, a group of about 100 students with disabilities filed a class action lawsuit against all state education departments and virtually every school district in the country, including Illinois school…
In a ground-breaking opinion authored by Justice Gorsuch and issued earlier today, the United States Supreme Court (“SCOTUS”) held that an employer who fires an individual merely for being gay…