With the new school year upon us, Franczek P.C. is once again ready to help support your school district teams with responding to student safety concerns and needs that may arise throughout the year. From student discipline and bullying prevention, […]
With the new school year upon us, Franczek P.C. is once again offering updated trainings and our Title IX Toolkit to help your administrators have everything your institution needs for compliance support for the 2026-2027 school year. Title IX Training […]
On June 1, 2026, Chicago’s Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection (“BACP”) began enforcing a new, detailed set of rules implementing the Chicago Fair Workweek Ordinance. These rules explain — and in some places tighten — the scheduling, notice, […]
On July 24, 2026, Governor Pritzker signed Public Act 104-647 into law (formerly Senate Bill 2914), bringing significant procedural changes to the process for K-12 public school districts to issue a notice to remedy (a mandatory notice to address remediable […]
Two recent decisions, one out of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the other issued by the Public Access Counselor for the Illinois Attorney General (“PAC”) address policies concerning decorum at open meetings and the sufficiency of agenda descriptions, […]
In a significant decision for employers involved in acquisitions and business transfers, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit recently held that the National Labor Relations Board’s successor bar doctrine is inconsistent with the National Labor Relations Act […]
This week, Governor Pritzker passed Public Act 104-0657, which requires school boards and charter schools to adopt and implement a wireless communication device policy by the beginning of the 2027-28 school year. The policy must, at a minimum, prohibit student […]
Franczek attorneys David J. Braun and James Petrungaro will host a webinar “Tenured Teacher Notices to Remedy – Assessing the New Legislation” on August 19th at 12 p.m. Sign up Here This presentation will focus on how the changes required […]
