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…

The Illinois State Board of Education (“ISBE”) will remove language from Form 34-57B that requires Districts to wait 10 school days to initiate an initial evaluation/reevaluation for a student unless…

On June 5, 2019, the TRS 6% threshold for end-career salary increases was reinstated retroactive to July 1, 2018.  Previously, in 2018, Public Act 100-0587 lowered that threshold from 6%…

In Public Access Opinion 19-004, the Illinois Attorney General found that a school board had violated Section 3.5(e) of the Open Meetings Act (5 ILCS 120/3.5(e)) by giving an inadequate…

In a notice published on May 20, 2019, the Department of Education announced that it would comply with a federal court’s March 7, 2019, ruling that the DOE immediately implement…

In a recent case involving a tenured teacher’s dismissal for misuse of sick leave, the Illinois Appellate Court upheld the Board of Education of the City of Chicago’s (“Board”) dismissal…

On April 20, 2019, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania reversed the 2017 conviction of former Penn State President Graham Spanier for endangering the welfare…

In Mandigo v. Stolman, 2019 IL App (2d) 180466, the Second District Appellate Court held that the Truth in Taxation Law (35 ILCS 200/18-55 et seq.) did not apply to…

The Illinois Attorney General’s Public Access Counselor (“PAC”) issued a non-binding letter that the Board of Education of Elmhurst Community Unit School District 205 violated the Open Meetings Act (“OMA”)…