The Illinois Attorney General’s office, now headed by Kwame Raoul, is investigating whether the Winnebago County Board violated the Open Meetings Act in early May when it convened in closed…
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On May 15, 2019, Northern District of Illinois Judge Reinhard decided to allow a student’s claims regarding an alleged violation of her First Amendment rights in M.O. v. Hononegah Cmty….
In a nonbinding determination letter issued on April 10, 2019, the Office of the Attorney General’s Public Access Counselor (“PAC”) once again held that copies of copyright material, such as…
Earlier this month, a 4-3 majority of the Illinois Supreme Court concluded that a 2012 amendment to the Illinois Pension Code was unconstitutional, thereby allowing David Piccioli, an IFT lobbyist…
The Illinois State Board of Education (“ISBE”) recently launched a new independent evaluators registry. ISBE is statutorily required to provide a list of names of eligible persons who can provide…
U.S. Department of Labor Proposes New Rules to Help Clarify. The United States Department of Labor has initiated administrative rule making procedures intended to clarify how to calculate the “regular…
On March 14, 2019, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held in McNeil v. Sherwood Sch. Dist. 88J, 918 F.3d 700 (9th Cir. 2019) that an Oregon school district did…
We have previously reported on the Students and Parents for Privacy v. Township High School District No. 211 case. On April 15, 2019, the Students and Parents for Privacy voluntarily…
On March 22, 2019, the Regional Superintendent of School for the North Cook Intermediate Service Center upheld a Hearing Officer’s determination that Park Ridge-Niles Community Consolidated School District No. 64…
In Letter to Dr. Perry Zirkel, the Office of Special Education Programs (“OSEP”) responded to a series of three questions regarding the implementation of response to interventions (“RtI”) and multi-tiered…