In a recent advisory opinion, the Illinois Attorney General’s Public Access Counselor found that records of users the Village of Orland Park blocked from its social media accounts are public records subject to release under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act. The decision reiterates […]
Category: K-12 Education
A recent decision of the Public Access Counselor reminds public bodies that the OMA applies to gatherings of public bodies even if the meeting is intended to be informal and does not involve any action by the public body. 2020 […]
Executive Order Bans Certain Race and Sensitivity Training Topics in Employment and Education
September 28, 2020
On September 22, 2020, President Donald Trump issued a controversial Executive Order “combat[ting] offensive and anti-American race and sex stereotyping and scapegoating” by federal contractors and recipients of federal grant funds, including schools, colleges, and universities. The order essentially bans […]
Critical Elements for a Compliant Title IX Sexual Harassment Procedure
September 23, 2020
Originally posted on our Title IX Insights blog. Well, we’ve made it almost six weeks since the new Title IX Sexual Harassment regulations went into effect. And I’m happy to see that so many of our clients and friends are […]
What Are Hearing Officers Saying about Remote Learning?
September 22, 2020
Originally posted on our Special Education Law Insights blog. Now that many of us have been doing some form of remote learning for close to 7 months, we are starting to see hearing officers and state agencies weigh in to […]
Franczek Partner Jackie Wernz Quoted in Education Dive Article on Title IX
September 15, 2020
On September 8, 2020, the national online publication Education Dive quoted Franczek P.C. Partner Jackie Gharapour Wernz in an article addressing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The Education Dive article addresses OCR’s recent publicized shift in perspective […]
Is OCR’s New Approach to Trans Rights in Schools Really Inconsistent? Here’s Why It’s Not
September 14, 2020
Originally posted on our Title IX Insights Blog. On September 8, 2020, an Education Dive article quoted me about two recent letters from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on the impact on Title IX of this year’s […]
IDPH Updates FAQ and Exclusion Guidance for COVID-19 Cases in Schools
September 11, 2020
The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) updated its COVID-19 FAQ and Exclusion Guidance last week. As we previously reported, the IDPH released Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for schools in August to supplement but not replace ISBE’s Part 3 Joint […]