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School Law Review We have represented
school districts through the unprecedented growth of the 1940s and the 1950s,
the social turmoil of the 1960s, the increase of government regulation and
employee awareness of the 1970s and 1980s and the financial difficulties
of the 1990s. Creative and innovative approaches to problem solving are
what these difficult and constantly changing circumstances demand and what
the firm's long and varied experience makes possible. We represent school
districts as their general attorney and as counsel on special matters.
In addition, our firms currently serves
as chief defense attorney for several educational self- insurance pools
which keeps the firm in constant contact with the problems faced by more
than 100 Illinois school districts. One of our partners is the founding
General Editor and current Co-Editor of the treatise published by the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education
entitled Illinois School Law.
We also publish, on a periodic basis, School Law Briefing and Education
Law Report, in which we review recent legislation and cases of interest
to school officials and offer practical advice to help school boards operate
more efficiently. Each issue of School Law Briefing and Education Law Report
are available in both HTML and PDF formats and are summarized below:
No. 2 -- November 1999
This issue can be viewed in either HTML or PDF format.
- School Violence Issues Take Center Stage:
Addressing Student Aggression and School Safety
- Metal Detectors: Coming Soon to a Kindergarten
Near You?
- Special Education Update:
IDEA Regulations Issued
School District Responsible for Medically Related Services
- TIF Reform is the Law
- An Update on the E-Rate
- Review Your Pesticide Policy
- Preventing Sexual Harassment
This issue can be viewed in either HTML or PDF format.
- Reciprocal Reporting: What Can the Police
Be Told?
The Illinois Attorney General has recently determined that the
reciprocal reporting of criminal offenses committed by students is not
simply limited to reporting delinquent students. Instead, the Attorney
General found that school districts can report to the police any suspected
criminal activities committed by students.
- Legislative Update
Powers and Duties of the Illinois State Board of Education; Scholastic
Records of Transferring Students; Residency of Special Education Students.
- School Board Workshop:
Student Residency Hearing Procedures
- Case Law Update
Certification of School Nurses; Unlawful Search of Student; School
Funding in Illinois; Prior Restraint of Religious Material.
School Law Briefing
No. 2 -- Winter 1996
This issue can be viewed in either HTML or PDF format.
- Courts Continue to Define Districts'
Discretion
The tension between the discretionary authority vested in school
boards by the School Code and their duty to bargain with unions under the
Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act (“Act”) has recently
been the source of considerable litigation...
- Case Law Update
School Gymnasiums: Educational or Recreational?
A recent Illinois Appellate Court decision involving a student injured
in a school gymnasium has determined that governmental immunity depends
more upon how a school facility is used than the school’s ownership
of it.
- School Board Workshop
School Board Policies: Avoiding the Pitfalls
- Legislative Update:
Student Expulsions; Transfer Students; School Searches; Student
Residency; Drug Use by Student Athletes; Residency of Principals; Student
Promotion to Higher Grades; Teachers Convicted of Murder; School Uniforms;
Summer School; EEO-5 Report; Family and Medical Leave Act Proposed Amendment
School Law Briefing
No. 1 -- Autumn 1995
This issue can be viewed in either HTML or PDF format.
- School Code Preempts IELRA in Teacher
Discipline Matters
- The Tax Cap Saga Continues --Understanding
the New Revisions
Recent legislation extends tax cap limitations to Cook County,
and authorizes all local governments in Cook and the collar counties to
resume the issuance of Alternate Bonds and to issue Limited Tax Bonds in
lieu of general obligation bonds...
- Waivers: New Possibilities for Old Problems
Public Act 89-3 grants school boards the opportunity to seek
modifications of State Board rules or waivers of School Code provisions.
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