The Illinois Appellate Court recently held that the Village of Rosemont could not redact certain financial terms from negotiated contracts before releasing the contracts pursuant to a Freedom of Information…
In Public Act 100-0023, the Illinois General Assembly made significant changes to the Illinois Pension Code affecting the Teachers’ Retirement System of Illinois (TRS) in two main ways: (1) by…
In A.H. v. IHSA, a federal judge dismissed a high school athlete’s discrimination claims against the Illinois High School Administration (IHSA). A.H. is a high school athlete who competes with…
After five nights of hearings, the Regional Board of School Trustees of DuPage County (“Regional Board”) voted on July 10, 2017, to reject a petition that sought to detach 24…
On June 26, 2017, the United States Supreme Court announced that a Missouri policy violated the rights of a preschool and daycare center because the policy denied the center public…
Last week, the Cook County Commission on Human Rights released its final set of procedural rules governing the Cook County Earned Sick Leave Ordinance. In the proposed draft of the rules…
P.A. 90-0927 was signed into law in January 2017 and became effective on June 1, 2017. It requires that beginning with the 2017-2018 school year, the required health examination for…
OCR Transgender Guidance On June 6, 2017, Candice Jackson, the Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights with the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights, sent a letter to…
In Whitaker v. Kenosha Unified School District, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of a transgender male student who requested access to male bathrooms. The student, Ash Whitaker,…
In a case successfully argued before the Illinois Supreme Court by HLERK’s Jeff Goelitz, the Illinois Supreme Court unanimously agreed that Consolidated High School District 230 (“District 230”) acted properly in denying the…