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New Jersey Law Journal

Revise the School Funding Formula

NJPP recommends that the legislative direct the Joint Committee on Public Schools to hold hearings on adjusting the basic school funding formula. We second the motion.
2 minute read

Law.com

Ohio-Based Ashland University Claims Department of Education Wrongly Imposed $6M Fine Over Second Chance Pell Grant Program

The suit was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.
4 minute read

Law.com

Reversing Panel Decision: Divided Ninth Circuit Finds Universities May Be Held Liable Under Title IX for Off-Campus Assault

"Today's opinion is a victory for Mackenzie and for student survivors across the country," said Alexandra Brodsky, a staff attorney at Public Justice in Washington D.C., who argued the case before the en banc court. "Gender violence has grave effects on students' access to education. For that reason, the civil rights law Title IX requires schools to address known abuse. And as the Ninth Circuit explained today, a school's power to stop violence—and its responsibility to do so—doesn't stop at the campus boundary."
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Informal Resolution as a Solution for Title IX Cases at Your School

The informal resolution process is a powerful tool that gives parties a say in the outcome. It is student-centered and trauma-informed and saves expenses, time and resources, reducing stress for those involved.
10 minute read

Daily Report Online

Supreme Court's Affirmative Action Ruling Brings Inequality of Opportunity

By striking down affirmative action, the court has provided an opening for certain groups to challenge both public and private diversity, equity and inclusion programs and initiatives (Perkins Coie and Morrison Foerster are defendants in such lawsuits).
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Education Commissioner Must Act

We do not know the best solution for the public school children in Lakewood and like-situated districts. That is what the Appellate panel directed the commissioner to address, and she ought to get on with it.
3 minute read

Law.com

'If There Had Been a Full Refund, Do You Think We'd Be Here?': Ohio Supreme Court Hears Arguments in COVID-19 College Refund Dispute

"[A]s appellees have now conceded, there is no qualitative difference between online instruction and in-person instruction. They are the same, we charge the same, it's the same instruction," argued OSU's counsel, John R. Gall, a senior partner at Squire Patton Boggs in Columbus.
6 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Justices: NJLAD Provides Same Protection From Sexual Harassment in Both Employment and Place of Public Accommodation

"'Because of' and 'on account of' both incorporate the traditional standard of but-for causation. Under that standard, one event can have multiple but-for causes," Justice Rachel Wainer Apter wrote for the court.
5 minute read

Law.com

Sheer Volume of Public Comments Likely to Further Delay Final Title IX Regulations

"The DOE is obviously going to want to shore things up if they head in a direction where they know, inevitably, there is going to be litigation," Patricia Hamill, co-chair of the Clark Hill's Title IX and campus discipline practice, said.
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

State School Board Reverses Troup Student's Expulsion After Hitting Teacher With Cellphone

"It was the right decision based upon the law, based on the rule that was charged, based upon constitutional considerations which are present when a governmental agency like a board of education acts against an individual such as a student," said Andrew Lampros, the student's attorney.
7 minute read

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