In the last month and a half of 2017, the Public Access Counselor of the Illinois Attorney General’s Office issued three binding opinions, one addressing the Open Meetings Act (OMA) and two addressing the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), finding […]
Category: K-12 Education
Department of Education Issues Guidance on Endrew F.
December 12, 2017
The U.S. Department of Education recently issued a Q&A document providing guidance on the issues the U.S. Supreme Court addressed in its decision in Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District Re—1 (which we summarized here). The document explains the Department’s interpretation of the Endrew F. FAPE […]
ISBE Issues Guidance on Homeless Dispute Resolution Procedures
November 27, 2017
The Illinois State Board of Education (“ISBE”) recently issued guidance addressing Homeless Dispute Resolution Procedures. This newly released document is intended to “bring clarity, fairness and consistency” to the dispute resolution process for homeless students and builds upon ISBE’s prior guidance […]
On February 24, 2017, President Trump signed Executive Order 13777. This order required Federal agencies to evaluate their existing regulations and make recommendations to the agency head regarding their repeal, replacement, or modification. In conformity with this Order, on October […]
New Timeline for Responding to Student Records Requests
October 3, 2017
Governor Rauner recently signed into law changes to the Illinois School Student Records Act. The changes in P.A. 100—532 create new procedures for responding to parents’ requests to inspect or copy their child’s permanent and temporary school records. These changes went […]
New OCR Title IX Dear Colleague Letter Withdraws Obama Era Guidance
September 27, 2017
Late last week, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced the intention of the Department of Education to overhaul the way it addressed sexual misconduct on college and university campuses, as well as in K-12 schools. As we previously noted, DeVos’s recent […]
Statutory Waivers Under the New School Funding Bill
September 21, 2017
As reported in an earlier alert, the State’s new school funding bill, Senate Bill 1947 (Public Act 100—0465), provides new mandate relief. School districts have been eligible to petition the General Assembly for waivers from many of the mandates in the […]
Secretary DeVos’s September 7, 2017 Remarks on Title IX Enforcement Extol Equity and Transparency, Raise New Questions
September 8, 2017
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s hotly-anticipated remarks on the future of Title IX enforcement, given yesterday at George Mason University, announced the intention of the Department of Education to overhaul the way it addresses sexual misconduct on college and university […]