Haight Partner Greg Rolen Testifies About SB 907 Before the California State Assembly
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They Said What? First Amendment Issues in 2020
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Education Data Privacy and Security Laws: Best Practices for School Districts
Leadership in the Time of COVID
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Haight Partner Greg Rolen who is general counsel for the Orange County Board of Education recently testified before the California State Assembly Education Committee on the disruptive nature of Senate Bill 907 which...more
School districts in Ohio own real property for a variety of reasons including proximity to or for use as school facilities. Useful real estate for school districts does not always come with substitutes. ...more
Georgia school districts are on track this calendar year to see a sharp uptick in the number of student discipline decisions being reversed on appeal by the Georgia State Board of Education. While each case is...more
As a result of the 2023 valuation update, several counties have requested all jurisdictions, including school districts, to voluntarily give back millage to reverse the impact of inflationary increases on collections,...more
A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati issued an opinion on May 19, 2022 that arguably expands the scope of liability K-12 school districts may face with respect to Title IX claims of sexual...more
Boards of education and their administrators should take note that new Section 3313.5317 of the Ohio Revised Code, enacted through Senate Bill 181, took effect on May 30, 2022. ...more
Senate Bill 1, a bill requiring high school students to complete one-half unit of financial literacy instruction to graduate, is on its way to the governor for signature after the Ohio Senate concurred with House changes to...more
On June 23, 2021, Senate Bill 22 went into effect in Ohio, and as schools resume instruction across the state, staff and families alike have been wrangling with its impact on quarantining and isolation procedures. Health...more
In a case of first impression, the Orange County Board of Education now has the right to retain its own lawyer. The settlement sent shockwaves throughout the California education law community and paved the way for some or...more
Spring is in the air….and so is budget season! For Connecticut board of education members and administrators the annual budget ritual can be an exhausting and politically-delicate process. As important as it is to rally the...more
Although school districts evaluate residency claims on an almost daily basis, it is rare for an appellate court to weigh in on the standards that schools should use for that analysis. In a recent decision, Gwozdz v. Board of...more
It’s become tradition for lawmakers and lobbyists that the first Wednesday of each new legislative session start with an early morning surrounded by hundreds of their closest friends at the Georgia World Congress Center...more
We have developed a resolution for adoption by boards of education approving their school district’s re-opening plans for the 2020-21 school year. The resolution is based on the broad discretionary authority which school...more
On May 13, 2020, in a 5-2 split decision, the Supreme Court of Ohio upheld the constitutionality of H.B. 70, and the 131st General Assembly’s process in enacting it, in Youngstown City School Dist. Bd. of Edn. v. State of...more
In light of CDC recommendations regarding COVID-19, North Carolina Governor Cooper issued an executive order closing all public schools in North Carolina for two weeks, beginning Monday, March 16, 2020, through March 30,...more
All city, local and exempted village school district boards of education must conduct an “organizational meeting” during the first fifteen (15) days of January of each year in accordance with R.C. 3313.14. Once the date is...more
Franczek P.C. is pleased to announce the publication of its annual Legislative Update for schools. With the flood of legislative changes in Illinois this year, it is more imperative than ever for education stakeholders to...more
Federal Updates - Last week, U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ed Markey (D-MA), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) sent letters to numerous education technology companies expressing concern about “vast amount of data being...more
We are approaching a time of year where a board of education may have to deal with its long time and (hopefully) beloved superintendent deciding to retire or otherwise move on to another chapter in his or her life. Any...more
Boards try their best to avoid it, but you hear about it time and again—a board goes into closed session and the conversation turns away from the subject matter the board identified in open session as the reason for the...more
North Carolina Legislators returned to Raleigh last week for their “short session” with a focus on revising the State budget bill passed last year. There was not much formal action in the two days the legislators returned to...more
An open letter - In light of recent events, schools across New York and the country are preparing for a student demonstration that could have millions joining a walkout. There are many stakeholders- students, parents,...more
Last Friday (August 11, 2017), the Connecticut Supreme Court issued a decision garnering significant press attention in which it ruled that 1) Connecticut public policy imposes a duty upon schools to warn or protect against...more
In what appears to be the first case of its kind within the Second Circuit, a United States District Court Judge within the District of Connecticut has crafted an order of over $200,000 in compensatory damages for a school...more
In a unanimous and much-anticipated decision released today, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that a committee of school personnel formed to review materials for a high school course under a procedure set forth in school...more