HomeCongratulations to Director John Britton, who has accepted an invitation to join the National School Boards Association’s Council of School Attorneys’ Labor Relations Committee. He joins a prestigious group of labor relations lawyers throughout the county who meet regularly to bring labor programming to practitioners during COSA meetings and to continue to determine the needs [...]
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John Britton Joins National Council of School Attorneys’ Labor Relations Committee
May 17, 2012 – 10:16 am
Ohio Supreme Court Holds Former Students’ Education Records Private Under FERPA
May 17, 2012 – 9:57 am
The Ohio Supreme Court held that education records, if created and maintained when a person is a student, cannot be disclosed after the person is no longer a student. State ex rel. Souffrance v. Doe, Records Custodian, Case No. 2011-0823. In State ex rel. Souffrance, Souffrance, an inmate at the London Correctional Institution, filed a Petition [...]
EEOC Finds Transgender Status a Basis for Sex Discrimination Claim Under Title VII
April 30, 2012 – 5:00 pm
In a landmark decision, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has determined that a transgender woman’s claim of employment discrimination based on gender identity, change of sex, and/or transgender status is viable under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. The case, Macy v. Holder, was brought by Mia Macy, a former male police detective [...]
U.S. Secretary of Education Offers Guidance on Military-Connected Children
April 26, 2012 – 5:23 pm
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan wrote a letter to all Superintendents reminding them of the challenges faced by military-connected schoolchildren, as they transition from one school district to another. On average, military-connected children attend six to nine different school systems from kindergarten through the twelfth grade. In helping the transitional needs of these children, he [...]
U.S. Supreme Court Finds Private Attorney Entitled to Qualified Immunity Under Section 1983
April 18, 2012 – 3:01 pm
Private individuals working for public entities, like school districts, are entitled to seek the same immunity from lawsuits that government employees have under the federal statute 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously decided in Filarsky v. Delia this week. Case No. 10-1018. The case involved a private attorney hired by the city [...]
“Teach the Controversy” Becomes Law in Tennessee
April 18, 2012 – 2:46 pm
Tennessee has become the second state with a “teach the controversy” law on the books. The legislation allows teachers to present “controversial” views of evolution and climate change in their classrooms to their students. Louisiana was the first state to allow such legislation, while Oklahoma has passed a similar bill in the House, but not [...]
