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Prevailing Wage Amendments Ease School District Duties for Determining Rates, Maintaining Records
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…
Read MoreReminder About Board Organizational Meetings
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…
Read MoreTRS Requires Submission of Grandfathered Contracts And Collective Bargaining Agreements By March 29, 2019
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…
Read More“Determining Eligibility for Section 504 and IDEA” and “Crafting 504 Plans” for NBI IEP and 504 Plan Legal Workshop, Naperville, IL.
June 7, 2019 – “Determining Eligibility for Section 504 and IDEA” and “Crafting 504 Plans” for NBI IEP and 504 Plan Legal Workshop, Naperville, IL.
Read MoreAdministrator Academy 1843 Identification, Evaluation, and Interventions for Students with ADD/ADHD
April 2, 2019 – South Cook Intermediate Service Center, Chicago Heights, IL.
Read MoreAdministrator Academy 1652: Successfully Managing the Legal and Practical Issues of One to One Technology Programs
March 12, 2019 – South Cook Intermediate Service Center, Chicago Heights, IL.
Read More“Leading the Team: Preventing Due Process Complaints,” and “Top Ten Section 504 Blunders and How to Avoid Them,” IAASE Winter Conference, at the Crowne Plaza, Springfield, IL.
February 21, 2019 – “Leading the Team: Preventing Due Process Complaints,” and “Top Ten Section 504 Blunders and How to Avoid Them,” IAASE Winter Conference, at the Crowne Plaza, Springfield, IL.
Read MoreHauser, Izzo, Petrarca, Gleason & Stillman Legal Breakfast at our Oak Brook office, 1415 West 22nd Street, Oak Brook, IL.
January 29, 2019 – Hauser, Izzo, Petrarca, Gleason & Stillman Legal Breakfast at our Oak Brook office, 1415 West 22nd Street, Oak Brook, IL.
Read More“Hot Topics in Section 504” IAASE Webinar
January 9, 2019 – “Hot Topics in Section 504” IAASE Webinar
Read MoreProposed New Regulations on Sexual Harassment and Sexual Violence From The U.S. Department of Education
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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