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adminMay 8, 2020
Final Regulations on the Use of Time Out, Isolated Time Out, and Physical Restraint and Corresponding ISBE Guidance
Given the understandable focus on remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, many school districts and special education cooperatives have not…
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On April 16, 2020, the Illinois Supreme Court issued a decision interpreting Section 24-6 of the Illinois School Code, relating to a school employee’s use of sick leave after the…
adminApril 28, 2020
The effective date of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (the “FFCRA”) has arrived. The U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) and Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) continue to provide additional guidance. …
adminApril 2, 2020
In the week following enactment of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, now commonly referred to as the “FFCRA,” the U.S. Department of Labor has begun to provide some initial…
adminMarch 27, 2020
Our office has recently received many questions related to whether parent consent is required for districts and cooperatives to provide special education and/or related services to students, individually or in…
adminMarch 25, 2020
Hours after the Senate voted to pass the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“Families First”) that the House of Representatives passed last week, President Trump signed the bill into law…
adminMarch 19, 2020
Early on March 17th, 2020, the Office of the Governor, Illinois Education Association, Illinois Federation of Teachers, Illinois Association of School Administrators, Illinois Principals Association and Illinois State Board of…
adminMarch 17, 2020
On March 16, 2020, the Governor issued an Executive Order that suspends certain provisions of the Open Meetings Act (“OMA”). The Executive Order includes the following terms, which will remain…
adminMarch 17, 2020
