Originally posted on our Title IX Insights Blog The confusing messages coming from the U.S. Department of Education continue. We still await more information on if/when a final version of the pending Title IX regulations will be released. Those regulations have been almost […]
Category: K-12 Education
Coronavirus, Fear, and Racial Harassment: OCR Warns Educational Institutions It Is Watching
March 5, 2020
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a statement yesterday reminding schools, colleges, and universities of their responsibilities to address discrimination and harassment based on race and national origin during the outbreak of coronavirus, or COVID-19. […]
Originally posted on our Special Education Law Insights Blog. Last week, ISBE reversed course on isolated time out. After initially banning the practice in late November 2019, ISBE heard from many stakeholders that having a staff member in a time out room with an escalated […]
In the past month, we have issued a number of resources on coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19, as applicable to schools, colleges, and universities, from education-focused recommendations to issues implicating all employers, including educational ones (on workplace guidance, business continuity, […]
Don’t Let Tenure Mistakes Saddle You with Low-Performing Teachers
February 27, 2020
With the end of the school year slowly approaching, remember that any recommendations to non-renew a probationary teacher’s employment for the next school year must likely be acted upon at the board’s March or April meeting. To refresh, to non-renew […]
Garbage In, Garbage Out: ED Department Takes Aim at K-12 Schools “Passing the Trash”
February 26, 2020
Originally posted on our Title IX Insights Blog The confusing messages coming from the U.S. Department of Education continue. We still await more information on if/when a final version of the pending Title IX regulations will be released. Those regulations have been almost […]
From federal guidance addressing FERPA and the School Safety Commission Report and DOE withdrawal of discipline guidance to Illinois law requiring threat assessment teams and the creation of the Illinois Educational Safety and Security Center (ESSC), the educational legal world […]
Learn From These Three Confidentiality Mistakes Before Your Next Title IX Investigation
February 25, 2020
Originally posted on our Title IX Insights Blog As an Office for Civil Rights (OCR) investigator, I was surprised by the number of times I saw the same issues again and again in Title IX sexual misconduct investigations. Nowhere was this more evident […]