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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Mar
3
2015
Employees at Pennsylvania Colleges and Universities Are Now Subject to Mandatory Background Checks Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
Mar
2
2015
This Week in Congress – March 2, 2015 re: DHS Appropriations Bill and Shutdown Covington & Burling LLP
Mar
2
2015
House Vote On ESEA Postponed To This Week -- Elementary and Secondary Education Act Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Feb
23
2015
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Reauthorization On The House Floor This Week Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Feb
18
2015
Qualified Public Infrastructure Bonds – Fancy New Name; Familiar Old Rules Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Feb
11
2015
Court Triples Time to Bring a Minnesota Whistleblower Claim Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Feb
9
2015
Puerto Rico’s Recovery Act Ruled Preempted: What Now? Mintz
Feb
9
2015
White House Proposes New P3 Financing Tool: Qualified Public Infrastructure Bonds (QPIB) Bilzin Sumberg
Feb
3
2015
School’s Out: Limiting Reach in the Classroom with Children's Online Privacy Protection Act Proskauer Rose LLP
Jan
30
2015
New Illinois Laws in 2015 Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, P.C.
Jan
27
2015
Key Issues Facing Places of Public Accommodation at the 25th Anniversary of the ADA Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Jan
22
2015
God in the Details: NLRB Modifies Test for Jurisdiction Over Religious Education Employers Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Jan
19
2015
EPA Urges Home Radon Testing: Protect Your Family from Lung Cancer Caused by Exposure in Your Home U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Jan
18
2015
Off the Mark?: Fourth Circuit Reverses FCA Dismissal Using Implied Certification Theory Covington & Burling LLP
Jan
16
2015
President Obama Proposes New Legislation and Model Terms of Service to Protect Student Privacy Covington & Burling LLP
Jan
16
2015
Illinois Governor Signs Executive Order on Ethics Covington & Burling LLP
Jan
13
2015
Public Bodies Prohibited from Requiring Community Members to Disclose Address Before Public Comment Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, P.C.
Jan
10
2015
Higher Education Alert: NLRB Trend in Easing Unionization Continues with Recent Decision Proskauer Rose LLP
Jan
6
2015
UPDATE: Michigan Excludes Student-Athletes from Unions Jackson Lewis P.C.
Jan
5
2015
DOL Implements New Rule: Government Contractors and Subcontractors Prohibited from Discriminating Against LGBT Workers Covington & Burling LLP
Jan
5
2015
Federal Information Technology Reform Act Included in the House-Passed NDAA FY 15 Covington & Burling LLP
Jan
5
2015
GAO Reaffirms Protest Jurisdiction Over “Mixed Transaction” Leases, But Questions Remain Covington & Burling LLP
Jan
4
2015
Proposed Rule Would Publicize Contractor Affiliate Relationships Covington & Burling LLP
Jan
4
2015
FAR Council Proposes New Rules on Inverted Corporations; Congress Voices Support Covington & Burling LLP
Jan
4
2015
Changes to Biofuels Provisions in House-Passed NDAA FY 15 Covington & Burling LLP
Jan
4
2015
D.C. Circuit Upholds Employment Regulations Covington & Burling LLP
Jan
3
2015
FISMA Updated and Modernized - Federal Information Security Management Act Covington & Burling LLP
Dec
29
2014
EPA Takes Action to Protect Consumers from Harmful Chemicals that can Cause Reproductive and Developmental Harm U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Dec
24
2014
A Year of Enhanced Student Privacy Laws Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Dec
23
2014
NLRB Announces New Standard for Exercising Jurisdiction Over Religiously Affiliated Colleges and Universities Jackson Lewis P.C.
Dec
23
2014
New California Privacy Laws Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Dec
23
2014
Dep’t of Education Negotiates Groundbreaking Agreement to Resolve Website Accessibility Investigation at State University Jackson Lewis P.C.
Dec
19
2014
Globalize Miami Series: PortMiami and its Significance to Miami’s Growth Bilzin Sumberg
Dec
18
2014
Indonesia — Can it Unleash Needed Investment? Covington & Burling LLP
Dec
16
2014
North Carolina Court of Appeals: Statutory "Custodian" of Public Records Is "In Charge of" the Relevant Office Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
 

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