In P.S. v. Kinnikinnick Community Consolidated School District No. 131, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois rejected the parents’ “Emergency Motion for Preliminary Stay-Put Injunction” and…
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On August 27, 2018, the Seventh Circuit upheld the lower court’s decision that the Chicago Public School district adequately assessed a 14-year old boy, and that a few errors in…
Amendments to the Illinois School Code went into effect on August 20, 2018, regarding the identification, evaluation, and placement of children for special education services. The legislature amended the code…
On July 24, 2018, the Illinois State Board of Education issued a memo to all Superintendents and Special Education Directors in Illinois. The memo relayed an important shift in the…
On August 14, 2018, Governor Rauner signed the Government Severance Pay Act into law (Public Act 100-0895). The new law, which becomes effective on January 1, 2019, provides that severance…
On August 10, 2018, Governor Rauner signed House Bill 5136 into law (Public Act 100-0768). This bill provides that meetings of joint RIF committees required under Section 24-12 of the…
Attorney General Determines That Two-Minute Public Comment is Reasonable and Not in Violation of OMA
Earlier this year, the Attorney General’s Public Access Counsel (PAC), in an informal opinion, confirmed that enforcing a two-minute public comment rule does not violate the Open Meetings Act (OMA)….
On August 1, 2018, Governor Bruce Rauner signed into effect Public Act 100-0660, commonly referred to as “Ashley’s Law.” The law is named after an 11-year old student from a…
HLERK continues to follow the national litigation surrounding accommodating transgender students in the school setting. Most recently, we have followed a case out of the U.S. District Court for the…
In Hites v. Waubonsee Community College, 2018 IL App (2d) 170617, the Illinois Appellate Court held that a request for multiple forms of electronic data was not unduly burdensome. In…