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Cozen O'Connor

Broad Street Brief: City Wellness Facility to Open This Fall

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During Thursday’s meeting, City Council voted to create a new Special Committee on Enhancing Efficiency & Transparency in Municipal Services and call on the state to ban the use of rental software that utilizes...more

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IRS Provides Helpful Answers Regarding Long-Term Part-Time Employees in 403(b) Plans

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In November 2023, the IRS issued proposed regulations addressing the SECURE 2.0 long-term part-time (LTPT) employee eligibility requirements applicable to 401(k) plans knowing that further guidance would be needed to explain...more

Miller Nash LLP

Special Education—Practical Tips From New Cases

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As school administrators know, there are always interesting updates for complying with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Recent cases provide important new information for K-12 school teams to improve...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Ohio’s Suspension and Expulsion Laws: What Every Parent Needs to Know

As a parent, your child’s education is one of your top priorities. However, navigating the complexities of school discipline can be daunting, especially when considering potential suspension and expulsion. Understanding the...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

[Webinar] Are you Ready for the Ohio CAMPUS Act? - October 15th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET

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Join us for an informative webinar on the newly enacted Ohio CAMPUS Act, effective October 24, 2024. This legislation mandates that all public and private higher education institutions in Ohio adopt comprehensive policies to...more

Littler

Unlocking New Benefits: Is the SECURE 2.0 Student Loan Match Right for Your Workforce?

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Employers now have a new benefit option in their toolbelt: The Qualified Student Loan Payment (QSLP) match. But is it worth implementing? Before diving into the specific legal requirements for a QSLP match program, this...more

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Canada Imposes New Language and Field of Study Requirements on Its Post-Graduation Work Permit Program

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On September 18, 2024, Canada announced that it would impose new language and field of study eligibility requirements on its Post-Graduation Work Permit (PGWP) Program. The imposition of these new requirements aligns with...more

Adams and Reese LLP

As Threats Against School Safety Increase, Administrators and Teachers Look for Solutions

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The first few months of the 2024 school year have seen a dramatic uptick in both real and hoax threats of school violence, estimated to be in the thousands according to a recent Wall Street Journal article. As these types of...more

TNG Consulting

Tip of the Week: BIT Standards for Higher Education – Standard 9 

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In this series, we continue to explore the updated NABITA Industry Standards for Behavioral Intervention Teams. These standards offer proactive guidance to BITs in developing effective approaches for preventing harm and...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Title IX Challenges for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Two major trends are simultaneously unfolding on college and university campuses around the country. One, growing numbers of students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are being accepted into higher education. Two, colleges...more

Cooley LLP

Student Loan Servicing Risks Top CFPB Concerns for Servicemembers, Veterans

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On September 24, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Office of Servicemember Affairs released its 2023 annual report highlighting complaint trends submitted by active-duty servicemembers, veterans and...more

Venable LLP

Update: California Enacts Color Additive Ban

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Last Friday, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the California School Food Safety Act (AB2316). The new law will prohibit California's public schools from serving school meals containing any of the following synthetic...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Key Legislative Changes for Pennsylvania Schools

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The General Assembly and Governor Shapiro recently enacted various legislation affecting school entities. The following is a brief summary of those developments....more

TNG Consulting

Don’t Sit on the Title IX Fence: Train Despite Injunctions

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Professionalism, Proficiency, and Confidence - In the Title IX field, federal regulations tend to drive the training discussion. They should not. In conversations on the ATIXA member listserv, we frequently encounter...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Data Breach 101: a Curriculum Spoiler for NC College Students

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A letter or three per year, alerting of a data breach at a company with which you’ve interacted, is now par for the course. Hackers, and the companies whose data they seek, are engaged in a near-daily volley of attacks and...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Top 10 Reasons to Tell Your Your Parents When You Are Involved In A Title IX Or Other Campus Conduct Proceeding

The attorneys at KJK encourage all students to immediately tell their parents (or another relative) when they are involved in a Title IX or other campus conduct proceeding....more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

The inexorable zero. The assault on workplace DEI. And four tips for avoiding the attack.

Inexorable. Something that cannot be moved, stopped, persuaded, or altered. In Title VII parlance, the "inexorable zero" is the complete absence of a protected group from a workforce or job classification. When accompanied...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Title IX Litigation Tracker: Where Do Things Stand Two Months After Implementation?

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It has been two months since the August 1, 2024 implementation date for the 2024 Title IX regulations promulgated by the U.S. Department of Education (“Department”) and schools across the country still face uncertainty from...more

Fisher Phillips

Divine Intervention? NLRB Rejects Challenge to Jurisdictional Test for Religious Educational Institutions

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In a rare rebuke of its own General Counsel, the National Labor Relations Board has rejected an invitation to flip-flop on its own precedent and will instead continue to apply a simple, bright-line test when determining...more

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Starting QB Leaves Undefeated Team Over NIL Dispute: 5 Things Universities and Collectives Should Do to Reduce Disputes and Legal...

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A new NIL issue emerged last week as the starting quarterback for the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) left the undefeated Rebels over claims of unfulfilled verbal promises allegedly made to him by an assistant coach....more

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Streamlining University IP Innovation: How the Improving Efficiency to Increase Competition Act Could Advance University...

University-driven innovation is a cornerstone of societal progress, as academic institutions play a pivotal role in advancing research and technology that fuel economic growth, enhance quality of life, and address global...more

Cooley LLP

Department of Education Announces Extension to FVT/GE Reporting Timeline

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The US Department of Education (ED) recently announced a revised timeline for the implementation of the new Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment regulations (FVT/GE Rule). Despite two prior extensions, the...more

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Five-Star High School Football Player Sues North Carolina State Board of Education Over NIL Prohibitions

Rolanda Brandon—the mother of sixteen-year-old star quarterback Faizon Brandon, the Greensboro, North Carolina, Grimsley High School football player who has committed to play for the University of Tennessee Volunteers in...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

New ORI Misconduct Rule Offers ‘Thoughtful’ Revisions in Wake of Highly Criticized NPRM

Now that the HHS Office for Research Integrity (ORI) has published its final rule revising 2005 regulations governing misconduct, compliance officials could be engaging in three activities simultaneously: checking to see if...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

ORI’s Garrity: Final Rule ‘Walks Delicate Line’

Sheila Garrity, director of the HHS Office of Research Integrity (ORI), recently spoke to RRC about the agency‘s new rule revising research misconduct regulations, which has a compliance date of Jan. 1, 2026 (see related...more

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