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…
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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…
The Illinois Appellate Court recently upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by Invenergy Nelson, LLC, a power company, against a school board to enforce a property tax abatement issued…
Effective May 12, 2020, ISBE changed its rules for accounting for Tort Immunity and Judgement Funds and Student Activity Funds, and added a new category of Fiduciary Funds by amending…
In University of Chicago v. Department of Revenue, the Illinois Appellate Court held that the University’s properties that were used by a for-profit daycare provider were not entitled to property…
As we previously reported, on June 17, 2019, three cisgender female student-athletes filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) concerning the Connecticut Interscholastic…