On August 23, 2019, Governor Pritzker signed Public Act 101-0531 which takes effect immediately. As further described in this briefing, the Public Act changes several areas of the School Code. Most notably, the Public Act significantly changes the procedure for investigating sexual abuse allegations made against a school district’s staff members, vendors, or volunteers. […]
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Posted on: Aug 29 2019
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On August 23, 2019, the Governor signed into law HB 3586, which requires districts to provide additional disclosure and notification to parents of students who are or may be eligible for special education services into law. The Public Act is effective immediately. The Act requires that the school district provide certain documents to parents before […]
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Posted on: Aug 27 2019
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Effective this year, school boards will no longer have to adopt Prevailing Wage Act resolutions in June. Recent amendments to the Act made this change and others but did not modify the Act’s central provision that public bodies must require their contractors for public works to pay the locally prevailing wages. Public Act 100-1177, passed […]
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Posted on: May 16 2019
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By: admin
Pursuant to law, every school board must hold its organizational meeting no later than 28 days after the consolidated election. Further, new board members cannot be seated until after the official canvass of the results by the county election authority. The deadline for the canvass is not until 21 days after the election. Therefore, the […]
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Posted on: Mar 1 2019
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By: admin
TRS has just issued Employer Bulletin 19-12 dated February 2019, which is available on the TRS website at: https://www.trsil.org/employers/employer-bulletins/FY19-12. This bulletin requires that all TRS employers submit all grandfathered individual employment contracts and collective bargaining agreements (“CBAs”) to the TRS CBA/Contract Collection Portal by March 29, 2019. Grandfathered contracts and CBAs are those entered into […]
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Posted on: Feb 7 2019
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On Friday, November 16, 2018, the U.S. Department of Education issued proposed Regulations that would alter what constitutes sexual harassment, what triggers a duty to respond, due process afforded to individuals and procedural responses to complaints, among other things. The Regulations are available for public comment for 60 days. During President Obama’s administration in 2011, […]
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Posted on: Dec 5 2018
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By: admin
Since the change in the law providing for school board candidate filings to be handled by the County Clerk rather than at the local school districts, the Cook County Clerk has been able to handle the volume of filings by using multiple sites in the suburbs, as well as the Clerk’s central office in Chicago. […]
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Posted on: Dec 4 2018
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On September 20, 2018, the Illinois Supreme Court issued its much-anticipated decision in Oswald v. Hamer, a lawsuit challenging the facial constitutionality of Section 15-86 of the Property Tax Code, the nonprofit hospital property tax exemption legislation enacted by the General Assembly in 2012. That section created a new test for tax exemptions -weighing […]
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Posted on: Sep 25 2018
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By: admin
This morning, the United States Supreme Court issued its anticipated decision regarding fair share agreements and the related deductions from the wages of public sector employees. (Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, et al.) The Court determined that an “agency fee” or “closed shop” which compels payment to a […]
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Posted on: Jun 27 2018
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By: admin
The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) has released long awaited updated guidance on medication administration in schools which can be found at https://www.isbe.net/Documents/Guidance-on-Medication-June-2018.pdf The new guidance gives school districts 13 points to include in their school medication polices: (1) a Registered Nurse (“RN”) should begin the process of reviewing any request to administer medication at school; […]
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Posted on: Jun 25 2018
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