The Family Policy Compliance Office recently published a letter regarding the scope of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (“FERPA”). This letter came in response to a parent complaint…
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is a Federal law ensuring the privacy of a student’s information, as well as providing protections to parents regarding their children’s education…
In B.L. v. Mahanoy Area School District, 2017 WL 4418290 (M.D. Pa. 2017), a federal trial court in Pennsylvania ruled that a School District did not have a right to…
As reported in our October Edition of the Extra Mile, the comprehensive school funding reform bill passed in August by the Illinois legislature included changes to physical education requirements and…
On October 20, 2017, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (“OSERS”) rescinded 72 guidance documents concerning students with disabilities. The rescissions stem from the…
In S.W. v. Evers, the U.S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin, concluded that Wisconsin’s open enrollment law, which permits school districts to deny enrollment to nonresident students with disabilities…
In A.R. v. School Administrative Unit #23, the U.S. District Court of New Hampshire ruled that the school district will not have to defend allegations that the district discriminated against…
Public Act 100-0204, which took effect on August 18, 2017, amended the School Code to prohibit any schools from establishing a “student booking station” on school property. The law defines…
In a decision issued on September 20, 2017, the Seventh Circuit held in Severson v. Heartland Woodcraft, Inc., 2017 WL 4160849 (7th Cir. 2017) that an employee’s request for a…
On August 31, 2017, the Illinois legislature passed a comprehensive school funding reform bill. Part of the school funding reform bill modified the physical education requirements for schools. Instead of…