On May 6, 2020, the U.S. Department of Education issued its final rule amending the Title IX regulations (34 C.F.R. Part 106). The regulations govern how school districts respond to and address…
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In Cahokia Unit School District No. 187 et al. v. Pritzker, an Illinois appellate court upheld the dismissal of a complaint brought on behalf of 22 Illinois school districts claiming…
In Public Access Opinion 20-004, the Illinois Attorney General’s Public Access Counselor found that a public body violated OMA when it impermissibly discussed the schedule and process for evaluating its…
In Longanecker v. East Moline School District No. 37, an Illinois appellate court recently affirmed the dismissal of a tenured elementary teacher accused of cheating several times on standardized testing,…
In May 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit vacated what would have been a groundbreaking decision in Gary B. v. Whitmer, a case in which a…
In May 2020, we reported on several lawsuits filed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In one case, the Chicago Teachers Union (“CTU”) filed a federal lawsuit against U.S….
In Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, the U.S. Supreme Court held that Montana’s scholarship program for private school students cannot exclude students attending private religious schools simply based on…
In September 2017, the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) attempted to withdraw the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”) program, which deferred the deportation of individuals who arrived in the…
New Gubernatorial Disaster Proclamation and Executive Orders 2020-47 & 2020-48 On July 24, 2020, the Governor issued a new Disaster Proclamation, Executive Order 2020-47, and Executive Order 2020-48. The new…