In December 2018, we reported that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, a federal appeals court, upheld a trial court’s decision to issue a nationwide injunction against the federal government…
On June 30, 2019, the last day of Pride Month and the same day as Chicago’s Pride Parade, Governor J.B. Pritzker issued executive order 2019-11, requesting that ISBE develop guidance…
An Administrative Law Judge of the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board concluded that District administration committed an unfair labor practice by including negative comments in a teacher’s evaluation based on…
On July 9, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled in Knight First Amendment Institute v. Trump that President Trump violated the First Amendment by blocking…
Tort Immunity Did Not Fully Immunize CPS for Failure to Protect Student from Sexual Assaulted on Bus
In Reyes v. The Board of Education of the City of Chicago, 2019 IL App (1st) 180593, the parents and plenary guardians of a disabled female student filed suit against…
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…