School districts are required under a new Pennsylvania law to implement extensive assessment and evaluation methodologies to evaluate professional employees, including permanent and temporary classroom teachers, non-teachers...more
An assessment to fund flood control and drainage services imposed by a county reclamation district on a school district was upheld Friday by a California appellate court. The court found that the trial court erred in...more
In a reversal of a lower court decision, the Third District Court of Appeal has held that the California Constitution’s provisions related to Proposition 218 override a statutory exemption that a school district argued...more
As we previously reported, on December 10, 2015, President Obama signed into law the Every Student Succeeds Act (“ESSA”), which reauthorizes the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (“ESEA” or “NCLB”). On December...more