On December 20, 2018, Governor Bruce Rauner signed into effect the Design-Build for Public Schools Act (P.A. 100-1159). The Act establishes a pilot program for up to five public school…
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In H.P. v. Naperville Community Unit School District No. 203, No. 18-2272 (7th Cir. 2018), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that Naperville Community Unit School…
In Razavi v. School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018 IL App (1st) 171409, the First District Illinois Appellate Court held that repeated allegations about a claimed sexual assault…
A Manteno Middle School student no longer faces Class-4 felony charges for violating the state’s eavesdropping law after the prosecution dismissed his indictment at a hearing in the Kankakee County…
The Illinois State Board of Education (“ISBE”) recently released a memorandum in response to questions it has received about the definition of an “Instructional Day.” As part of the Evidence-Based…
On November 8, 2018, a federal appeals court upheld a trial court’s decision to issue a nationwide injunction against the federal government from rescinding the DACA program. For now, the…
In 2012, the Illinois General Assembly passed a law expanding the requirements of the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act (“Act”). The Act now requires all mandated reporters to report…
As we previously reported to you in the January 2018 and February 2018 editions of The Extra Mile, Township High School District 211 has been defending a legal action brought…
In 2011, the Department of Education, under then-President Barack Obama, issued guidelines that addressed how schools should investigate and prosecute claims of sexual assault. In September 2017, the U.S. Department…
After a two-week trial, a Cook County jury took just two hours to award a former Country Club Hills firefighter $11.2 million in damages for sexual harassment in the work…