A local news source from New Haven, Connecticut, reported that the New Haven Public Schools and the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights have reached a tentative agreement on their current transgender athlete dispute. The deal reportedly will […]
Originally posted on our Special Education Law Insights blog. Now that many of us have been doing some form of remote learning for close to 7 months, we are starting to see hearing officers and state agencies weigh in to […]
Well, we’ve made it almost six weeks since the new Title IX Sexual Harassment regulations went into effect. And I’m happy to see that so many of our clients and friends are making good progress with revising and approving policies […]
Now that many of us have been doing some form of remote learning for close to 7 months, we are starting to see hearing officers and state agencies weigh in to resolve complaints related to the appropriateness of remote special […]
Today, September 18, representatives from the City of Chicago and the Chicago Firefighters Union Local 2 have officially signed a historic agreement. At the signing, Mayor Lori Lightfoot made a point to notice Franczek P.C.’s decades of hard work on […]
Last week, the U.S. Department of Education issued a Final Rule, codifying when higher education institutions that receive certain federal grant funds must respect religious speech and clarifying when religious institutions can claim exemptions to federal sex discrimination laws. Much […]
On September 8, 2020, the national online publication Education Dive quoted Franczek P.C. Partner Jackie Gharapour Wernz in an article addressing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The Education Dive article addresses OCR’s recent publicized shift in perspective […]
Originally posted on our Wage and Hour Insights blog. On September 8, 2020, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York struck down portions of a January 2020 Final Rule issued by the Department of Labor. The Final Rule provided […]
