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 […]
Category: K-12 Education
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 […]
DACA Rescission: What you Need to Know
September 6, 2017
On September 4, the Attorney General sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) informing DHS of his determination that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is unconstitutional. On September 5, DHS published a memorandum terminating […]
DACA Update: Will the Program Be Terminated?
September 1, 2017
President Donald Trump is expected to announce as early as this week or next week the future of the previous administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. News outlets have reported high-level meetings this week to review the program’s […]
New School Funding Bill on The Way to The Governor’s Desk
August 29, 2017
The rollercoaster ride of the past weeks on school funding is coming to an end as the General Assembly has passed a new compromise bill that is expected to be signed by Governor Rauner as early as the end of […]