On April 27, 2020, a circuit court judge issued a Temporary Restraining Order preventing Governor Pritzker from enforcing his stay-at-home order against Illinois State Representative Darren Bailey. Judge Michael McHaney…
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On April 13, 2020, a group of students in Hawaii filed a class action lawsuit against the Hawaii Department of Education, alleging that they, and thousands of other disabled children…
On April 22, 2020, the U.S. Department of Education’s Student Privacy Policy Office (“SPPO”) (formerly the Family Policy Compliance Office) issued a new cover letter to the Department’s annual notice…
As we reported previously, in response to the ProPublica and Chicago Tribune investigation published in November 2019, the Illinois State Board of Education (“ISBE”) issued a series of emergency rules…
On February 20, 2020, two Wisconsin high school students filed a complaint against their high school principal in federal district court, alleging violations of their First Amendment rights, after the…
In early March 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed the lower court’s decision in D.M. v. Minnesota State High School League and ruled unanimously that…
A federal district court in North Carolina struck down a charter school’s dress code that required female students to wear skirts in Peltier v. Charter Day School. The court found…
On January 17, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued its decision in LF v. Lake Washington School District No. 414, upholding the school district’s…
On March 19, 2020, the federal Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) issued Memorandum M-20-17 allowing flexibility related to grant fund award recipients impacted by COVID-19. Importantly, the OMB will…
A federal appeals court determined that a tenured teacher, RIF’d before the Illinois law allowing appeal of an unsatisfactory rating took effect, may have a right to due process, such…