Public Education & Services

The National Law Review covers developments, legal actions, and news stories related to the public education and services sector.  Under this coverage, legal experts analyze developments with the Department of Education (DOE) compliance actions, stories about how the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) affects public institutions and its students/employers, and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), are a taste of the legal analysis related to Public Services available from the National Law Review.

Government funding for new public education services, school meal programs, public housing issues, special education programs in public schools, and ransomware and privacy in higher-education institutions, are among the stories covered by the National Law Review. Visitors will read updated legislation that has passed prohibiting discrimination in the classroom, or new policies related to student-athletes in the country’s top institutions. Campus sexual assault, the #MeToo Movement in the workplace and public education sector, employee relations, and other new stories are reported daily by the National Law Review.  Additionally, litigation and decisions from major circuit courts and the US Supreme Court about public sector employment and other issues related to major government institutions are carefully analyzed by the National Law Review. 

The National Law Review also covers hot topics like civil rights, and how they intersect with the public-education sector in the United States. Our legal experts also cover issues related to the evolution of Title IX, and how enforcement is carried out by the relevant agencies.  Additionally, NLR has articles on how public services and public education work together, topics like transgender discrimination, gender-based harassment claims, and discrimination lawsuits, are leading stories which visitors will find on the website. Details about violence and mass shootings in the realm of public education and institutions, student rights, teacher/employer rights, and other topics related to the public institutions and services sector, can all be found on the National Law Review’s website.

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Aug
29
2016
NLRB Exercises Jurisdiction Over Charter Schools Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Aug
28
2016
NLRB Declares Student Assistants Can Unionize Armstrong Teasdale
Aug
27
2016
Educational Institutions Targeted in Fraudulent Payment Requests Mintz
Aug
25
2016
Student Assistants at Private Schools are Deemed “Employees” and May Form Unions Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
Aug
24
2016
NLRB Concludes Graduate Assistants Are Employees, Authorizing Unionizing Attempt Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Aug
24
2016
What NLRB’s Ruling, that Graduate Teaching Assistants Are Employees With Rights to Organize and Bargain Collectively, Means for Employers Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Aug
23
2016
Bathroom Chronicles: Texas Judge Stops Government From Imposing Transgender Student Guidelines on Schools Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Aug
23
2016
Federal Judge in Texas Blocks Transgender Guidance Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
Aug
21
2016
Quick Reference for Class Size Requirements For K-6 Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
Aug
19
2016
Qui Tam Whistleblowers Successful in $11 Million Settlement of False Claims Act Lawsuit Against Marinello Schools of Beauty Tycko & Zavareei LLP
Aug
18
2016
Is Your Student Information Adequately Protected? Murtha Cullina
Aug
14
2016
Is Your County’s Automated Dialer System FCC Compliant? Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
Aug
12
2016
ERISA Excessive Fee Lawsuits Hit 403(b) Plans of Higher Education Institutions Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Aug
8
2016
More Lessons from the (Sweet) Briar Patch Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
Aug
8
2016
Ohio Supreme Court Rules Board Communication of Any Kind May Constitute “Meeting,” Violating Ohio’s Open Meetings Act Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
Aug
8
2016
“Stay Put” Provisions for Professional and Service Personnel (2016-17 School Year) Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
Aug
6
2016
Sexual Misconduct Investigations in Higher Ed Facing Scrutiny by Courts for Gender Bias Armstrong Teasdale
Aug
5
2016
FCC Grants Significant TCPA Relief to Energy Utilities and Schools Keller and Heckman LLP
Aug
5
2016
Fostering Financial Aid Literacy in Students: H.R. 3179 Mintz
Aug
1
2016
Would Anyone "Remember the Titans" If Coach Boone's Pre-Game Speeches Were Not Private? A Top Texas Court Set to Weigh In Proskauer Rose LLP
Jul
28
2016
Choice is Knowledge: Strengthening Transparency in Higher Education Act (H.R. 3178) Mintz
Jul
26
2016
U.S. Department of Education Issues Proposed State Authorization Regulations Faegre Drinker
Jul
25
2016
Municipal Advisor, School Consultant, Associated Individuals Enter Settlement Offers with SEC After First-of-its-Kind Municipal Advisor Antifraud Enforcement Action Bracewell LLP
Jul
21
2016
Renovating the Past, Constructing the Future: HBCU Capital Financing Improvement Act H.R. 5530 Mintz
Jul
20
2016
University of Tennessee Settles Title IX Lawsuit For $2.48 Million Jackson Lewis P.C.
Jul
18
2016
Brexit – UK Universities Facing Uncertain Times Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jul
15
2016
Expanding Access and Encouraging Health Care: H.R. 5529 Mintz
Jul
14
2016
Emergencies on Campus: Is Your Institution Prepared? Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
Jul
12
2016
UK Insolvency: “3 Rs” of Education - Reading, Writing and… Restructuring? Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jul
11
2016
House Moves Forward Perkins CTE Reauthorization and Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill; WIOA Final Rules Released Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jul
8
2016
Fear No FAFSA: H.R. 5528 -Simplifying the Application for Student Aid Act Mintz
Jun
29
2016
Education Service Personnel on Preferred Recall: Priority in Substitute Assignments? Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
Jun
28
2016
Supreme Court Upholds Race as an Acceptable Factor in Admissions Decisions Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
Jun
27
2016
Colorado Student Data Privacy Bill – What EdTech Software Providers Need to Know Mintz
Jun
24
2016
High Court Finds UT Austin Race-Conscious Admissions Process Constitutional Jackson Lewis P.C.
 

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