In B.P.J. v. West Virginia State Board of Education, the Fourth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals reversed a federal trial court and upheld the Title IX claim of the Plaintiff;…
As regular readers of our Extra Mile newsletter know, we at Hodges Loizzi have been carefully monitoring the status of the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed Title IX regulations on sex discrimination….
ISBE recently issued its Final Rule governing dispute resolution procedures for students asserting homeless status when seeking to enroll in school. It went into effect on February 5, 2024, and,…
In a binding opinion, the Public Access Counselor (“PAC”) found that a city violated the Freedom of Information Act when it withheld a nondisclosure agreement that the city entered into…
In International Association of Fire Fighters Local 4646 v. Village of Oak Brook, a village board’s closed session discussion of budget proposals violated the Open Meetings Act because it exceeded…
Public Act 103-0430, which took effect on January 1, 2024, makes several changes to the School Code provision concerning the length of student transportation contracts. Specifically, the following revisions were made:…
Public Act 103-570 (effective January 1, 2024), amended the Public Construction Bond Act, 30 ILCS 550/1, in two ways that will affect school construction projects. First, the minimum cost of…
Hodges Loizzi Partner Tony Loizzi will discuss “Impasse and Strike: How to Advise School Districts” at the upcoming Council of School Attorneys (COSA) School Law Seminar, a National School Boards Association (NSBA)…
The issue arose when the student attended a high school football game near San Diego, where he and about one hundred other fans wore Warrior eye black. Eye black, available in…
The final Title IX regulations on sex discrimination from the U.S. Department of Education may be released this spring after all. The Department initially announced the final rule would be…