May 2015

A newly proposed house bill, HB 2781, would allow school districts to create e-learning programs, permitting students to receive instruction
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A new Senate Bill, SB 100, was introduced that would make significant changes to student suspension and expulsion procedures, including:
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A newly proposed House Bill, HB 3252, would create the Illinois School Choice Program, allowing for the payment of public
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The new Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (“PARCC”) testing was the subject of a legislative hearing
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The U.S. Senate recently published draft language for the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA/NCLB). Proposed changes to the
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A new Illinois House Bill, HB 3796, clarifies the definition of “voluminous request” in regards to the Freedom of Information
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The federal Office of Special Education Programs (“OSEP”) recently published guidance in Letter to Reilly(114 LRP 49672), indicating that, unlike IDEA
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Illinois will receive nearly $2 million dollars in federal grants to help schools better prepare for emergencies, as well as
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An Illinois impartial due process hearing officer recently found that a parents’ dispute of a re-evaluation and request for an
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A new Illinois law (P.A. 98-0639) will require all Illinois charter schools to comply with federal and state laws and
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