Illinois Governor JB Pritzker recently appointed Franczek partner Nicki Bazer to the Affirming and Inclusive School Task Force. According to the press release from the Governor’s office, the group is “tasked with identifying strategies and best practices for ensuring welcoming, […]
Category: K-12 Education
Opening the Floodgates? IL Law Requires Notice That Non-IEP-Eligible Students May Qualify for 504
September 17, 2019
Originally posted on our Special Education Law Insights Blog With all the hub-bub about HB 3586 (more on that here!), you would be excused if you missed that another special education law, passed last year, went into effect this school year. This one is easy to […]
Don’t Miss the Boat After Missed Services! What to Do Under HB 3586
September 17, 2019
Originally posted on our Special Education Law Insights Blog A speech pathologist goes out on unexpected medical leave. Three paraprofessionals quit in one week. A special education teacher is abducted by aliens and no substitutes are available. Sometimes staff absences are unavoidable, and […]
This Is Not a Drill: School Districts Now Required to Create Threat Assessment Teams and Implement Threat Assessment Procedures
September 13, 2019
Governor Pritzker recently signed into law Public Act 101-0455 amending the School Safety Drill Act (105 ILCS 128/1) to require threat assessment procedures and the creation of threat assessment teams in school districts across Illinois. The required threat assessment procedures […]
Melissa Sobota and Erin Walsh are Authors in an Article in the IPELRA Report
September 12, 2019
Melissa Sobota and Erin Walsh authored the article, “A New Day for Illinois: Expectations on the Impacts of the J. B. Pritzker Administration” published in the Illinois Public Employee Relations Report, Volume 36, Issue No. 3. This article provides a […]
One of the biggest stories of the summer for both K-12 schools and colleges and universities was ransomware. Unlike the weather, there is no sign that such risks will cool off any time soon. What can your institution do to […]
The Real Risk of Data Breach And What Schools Can Do To Be Prepared
September 6, 2019
This summer, Pearson notified a handful of Illinois school districts that its AIMSweb 1.0 Platform had experienced a data breach that impacted over 13,000 account holders nationally. The breach may have resulted in third-party access to student names and, in […]
Effective August 26, 2019, the Illinois Open Meetings Act has been amended, expanding the closed meeting exception to include discussion of personnel matters of independent contractors or volunteers in a closed meeting. The exception found in 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(1) now […]