Articles in Channel: Education Law

The CADRE Interviews: Must See TV

Jim Gerl
March 21, 2012 20:03

Bottom view of VHS videotape cassette with magnetic tape exposed (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Occasionally being famous is not good, but this is not one of those stories... I am almost famous yet again.  Seriously though, I was recently honored by CADRE, the OSEP funded national technical...

Procedural Safeguards - The Series - Part VII

Jim Gerl
March 20, 2012 19:15

Students and facilitator discuss a text in a typical Shimer College class. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)This is the seventh installment in a multi-part series on procedural safeguards under the federal special education law, the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act. I work a lot in this...

Final Rule on Student Health Insurance Posted

Kent Talbert
March 19, 2012 03:17

Late in the day on Friday, March 16, 2012, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) placed its final rule on student health insurance coverage on public display at the Office of the Federal Register. The rule will not appear in the Federal Register until March 21. Arising out of...

Bullying of Children With Disabilities - Part V

Jim Gerl
March 17, 2012 19:51

Image via WikipediaBullying remains the hottest of hot button issues in special education law.  In the first installment, I explained the early cases laying the conceptual groundwork for the proposition that failure to react to bullying can constitute a denial of FAPE under IDEA. ...

Talbert & Eitel to Sponsor Annual Conference of Higher Education Attorneys

Robert Eitel
March 15, 2012 16:19

Bob Eitel and Kent Talbert will attend the 2012 National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA) Annual Conference from June 27-30 in Chicago.  Their firm, Talbert & Eitel, PLLC is pleased to be a sponsor of this year's NACUA annual conference, which will take place at the...

Minnesota School District Enters Into Five Year Consent Degree with Department of Justice and the Office of Civil Rights in Resolution of Peer-on-Peer Harassment and Discrimination Claims Based Upon Sex and Sexual Orientation

Carolyn Mazanec Dugas
March 14, 2012 18:33

The Anoka-Hennepin school district (District) in Minnesota recently entered into a five year consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Civil Rights (OCR) to resolve two separate actions brought by six current or former district students...

Procedural Safeguards - The Series - Part VI

Jim Gerl
March 13, 2012 22:02

Image by Getty Images via @daylife This is the sixth installment in a multi-part series on procedural safeguards under the federal special education law, the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act. I work a lot in this area, so it is near and dear to my heart. Despite the ...

Fired Intelligent Design proponent says not a religious view

Kyle Berman
March 13, 2012 18:48

There is no direct school link, but I was reading a news item about a JPL (you know, "Jet Propulsion Labratories") employee who claimed he was fired for espousing his intelligent design beliefs at work.  Naturally, JPL denies the allegation, but the more interesting thing is that...

PA's Right to Know Law: can you keep it private if the exclusions don't quite fit?

Kyle Berman
March 12, 2012 15:34

What is an agency's Open Records Officer to do?  The exclusions in the PA RTKL are supposed to be "narrowly construed," but sometimes the information requested clearly SHOULD be protected. This issue came up recently in front of the PA Commonwealth Court.In Housing Authority of...

GEORGE WILL DISCUSSES TALBERT EITEL LEGAL WHITE PAPER

Robert Eitel
March 11, 2012 23:01

In his column today, nationally syndicated columnist George F. Will discusses our paper, The Road to a National Curriculum:  The Legal Aspects of the Common Core Standards, Race to the Top, and Conditional Waivers, released on February 9 by the Pioneer Institute.  With only minor...