On August 24, 2021, we sent a legal update advising that as part of its Return to School Roadmap, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative…

Governor Pritzker has issued Executive Order 2021-24, which includes exclusion mandates for confirmed cases of COVID-19, probable cases of COVID-19, and close contacts to a confirmed or probable case of…

ISBE has issued a revised guidance document on school district obligations to certain students with disabilities who aged out of eligibility for special education services during the pandemic. To read…

Late in the day on August 31, Dr. Carmen Ayala, Illinois State Superintendent, issued her weekly message, which included ISBE’s interpretation of Governor Pritzker’s Executive Order 2021-20 regarding mandatory vaccinations…

Governor Pritzker has now signed all of the pending bills that we have been tracking from the most recent legislative session. This legal update includes a summary of the Public…

As we work through issues and questions surrounding compliance with the vaccination requirements in Executive Order 2021-20, we wanted to provide some preliminary guidance for our clients. We will continue…

Today, as part of its Return to School Roadmap, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services published a Question and Answer document concerning the Individuals with…

We appreciate that there are so many changes confronting school administrators to kick off the 2021-2022 school year, including a steady wave of enacted legislation over the past few weeks. Please…