Maine Scholarship Program Excluding Sectarian Schools Unconstitutional. In Carson v. Makin, 142 S.Ct. 1987 (2022), the U.S. Supreme Court struck a tuition assistance program that requires school districts to transmit payment...more
Last month, a federal court in North Carolina held in Karanik et al. v. Cape Fear Academy, Inc., No. 7:21- CV-169D (E.D.N.C.June 17, 2022), that a private secondary school’s receipt of a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan...more
As early as April 5, 2020, we warned independent schools that accepting COVID stimulus cash in the form of loans could put you on the hook to comply with several federal laws you might not be familiar with, including Title...more
Under the CARES Act and subsequent COVID-19 legislation, independent schools may be eligible for the Employee Retention Credit (ERC), a refundable payroll tax credit for employers, including independent schools, whose...more
President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 into law on March 11, 2021. The Act includes around $1.9 trillion dollars in funding for coronavirus recovery, $39.6 billion of which is appropriated to institutions...more
On August 26, 2020, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California followed the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington at Seattle and temporarily halted the enforcement...more
On August 21, 2020, a federal court for the Western District of Washington at Seattle granted the State of Washington’s motion for a preliminary injunction to prevent the U.S. Department of Education (the “Department”) from...more
Following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the federal government has provided financial assistance opportunities that may be available to private elementary and secondary independent schools under the...more