On June 14, 2019, the Illinois Appellate Court ruled that a teacher was not entitled to 28.5 days of paid sick leave at the beginning of the 2016-2017 school year…

On June 6, 2019, the Public Access Bureau of the Office of the Attorney General’s Office (“PAC”) determined that the Board of Education of Rock Island-Milan School District No. 41…

The U.S. Department of Education recently restructured its Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development to include a new Student Privacy Office (“SPPO”).  This change followed a directive from the…

In December 2018, we reported that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, a federal appeals court, upheld a trial court’s decision to issue a nationwide injunction against the federal government…

On June 30, 2019, the last day of Pride Month and the same day as Chicago’s Pride Parade, Governor J.B. Pritzker issued executive order 2019-11, requesting that ISBE develop guidance…

Maine Teachers’ Association, IEA-NEA and Maine Township High School District 207, 36 PERI ¶ 2 (IELRB 2019) 1.                  The Decision. Last month an Administrative Law Judge of the Illinois Educational…

On July 9, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled in Knight First Amendment Institute v. Trump that President Trump violated the First Amendment by blocking…

In Reyes v. The Board of Education of the City of Chicago, 2019 IL App (1st) 180593, the parents and plenary guardians of a disabled female student filed suit against…

While we normally do not go outside of Illinois to bring you legal developments, every once in a while we break our own rule because an event serves as a…

The claims of Seven Chicago Public School (CPS) students with individualized education programs (“IEP”) and their Limited English Proficient (“LEP”) parents who primarily speak Spanish, Mandarin, or Polish (collectively, the…