Murphy School District No. 21 to Pay $138,000 to Settle EEOC Age...
Federal Agency Says School Used Retirement Plans That Were Facially Discriminatory - PHOENIX -- Murphy School District No. 21 used an early retirement incentive plan which granted greater economic...
View ArticleWhistleblower Takes Next Step in Lawsuit Against Philadelphia School District
Four years ago, Francis X. Dougherty was fired after revealing the existence of a $7.5 million no-bid security camera contract within the Philadelphia School District. Now, he has won a major victory...
View ArticleThe Whole Is the Sum of Its Parts: Illinois Supreme Court Upholds Service in...
According to the Election Code, anyone wishing to get judicial review of a decision of an electoral board must “serve a copy of the petition upon the electoral board and other parties to the proceeding...
View ArticleNew student data privacy laws: top points for school contractors and K-12...
According to the Data Quality Campaign, 36 states considered 110 student data privacy bills this year, and 20 states enacted 28 such bills into law. At least eight of these new laws may have...
View ArticleSchool District Advisory: The Pure and Simple Truth - The Truth is Rarely...
In the recent case of J.P. v. Carlsbad Unified School District, the California Court of Appeal barred a public entity from enforcing the six-month government tort claim requirement when it prevents the...
View ArticleNew student data privacy laws: top points for school contractors and K-12...
According to the Data Quality Campaign, 36 states considered 110 student data privacy bills in 2014, and 20 states enacted 28 such bills into law. At least eight of these new laws may have significant...
View ArticleCDC Issues Guidance on School Ebola Risk Assessment and Response
Many will recall the recent incident where a Connecticut school district barred a student, who had recently returned from Lagos, Nigeria, from school for twenty-one days due to Ebola concerns. While...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Will Review “Bleacher” Case
Last September in this Alert, we discussed an opinion in which the Second District Appellate Court ruled that Community High School District 155 was subject to the zoning regulations of the City of...
View ArticleConstruction Alert: School District Flunks Public Contract Code Exam on...
On January 27, 2015, the Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, affirmed, in part, a hefty trial judgment against the Rio School District for improperly withholding retention funds in the case of...
View ArticleMeasles Outbreak in Illinois
The current measles cluster in the Chicago area has school districts on heightened alert. Following is a short summary of preventative steps and guidance issued by the Illinois Department of Public...
View ArticleIt Takes More Than a Village: Protecting Student Privacy in the Age of Big Data
High-profile data breaches and cyber-attacks on well-known brands and businesses have dominated the news cycle for more than a year. Yet during the same time, less visible, but no less important...
View ArticleSchool District Gets Expensive Lesson on Prompt Payment Law. But Did the...
My kids don’t like riding in my car. I urge them to look outside the window (I don’t have DVD), suggest that they roll down their windows to get some fresh air (rather than have me turn on the A/C) and...
View ArticleCommon Core Redux: Is There a Solution To The “Opt Out” Debate?
Almost exactly a year ago, my colleagues Michael P. McKeon and Zachary D. Schurin penned a piece on this blog that explored the deceptively simple question of whether parents could “legally” opt their...
View ArticleERISA: Sometimes A Government Employee’s Benefits Could Be Governed By ERISA?
You already know that employee benefit plans established by governmental entities are exempt from ERISA. But ERISA might apply if the employee benefit for the government employee is established through...
View ArticleThe California Public Employment Relations Board Broadly Construes Protected...
The Public Employment Relations Board ("PERB") in Crowell v. Berkeley Unified School District found the anti-retaliation provisions contained in the Educational Employment Relations Act ("EERA"), Cal....
View ArticleFranczek Radelet Files Amicus Brief in “Bleacher Case”
The Illinois Association of School Boards (IASB), the Illinois Association of School Business Officials (IASBO), and the Illinois Association of School Administrators (IASA) recently retained Franczek...
View ArticleTwo California School Districts Do the Right Thing and Avoid Brown Act...
Two Santa Ynez Valley school districts recently postponed their monthly board meetings after it was discovered that both districts failed to post their meeting agendas online 72 hours in advance, as...
View ArticleNew York’s Property Tax Cap Wins Again
In 2013 we reported on NYSUT‘s lawsuit which claimed that New York’s recently-enacted property tax “cap” was unconstitutional. The thrust of NYSUT’s 2013 arguments against the cap were that it (1)...
View ArticleFederal Judge Finds Michigan School District Liable for Failure to Train...
Earlier this week, U.S. District Judge Paul Maloney held that the Forest Hills School District, located near Grand Rapids, Michigan, can and will be held liable for its failure to provide Title IX...
View ArticlePA Senators Pushing to Replace School Property Taxes with Expanded Personal...
A number of Pennsylvania State Senators continue to push for legislation to eliminate school district property taxes in Pennsylvania. They would replace the lost revenues by increasing the statewide...
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