Best Lawyers® recognized Tom Mooney as Connecticut’s “Lawyer of the Year” in Education Law for 2024 and published an article outlining just a few of Tom’s many accomplishments as a leader in the field of education law.
Special recognition is
Best Lawyers® recognized Tom Mooney as Connecticut’s “Lawyer of the Year” in Education Law for 2024 and published an article outlining just a few of Tom’s many accomplishments as a leader in the field of education law.
Special recognition is…
Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter
Dear Legal Mailbag
As I was falling asleep last night, I awoke with a start, wondering whether we should be doing more to part company with a long term substitute. I am the principal…
Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter
Dear Legal Mailbag,
As a new and enthusiastic administrator, I greatly appreciate how technology helps us do our jobs better in so many different ways. Nowadays, we resolve many credibility disputes over student conduct…
As with school districts throughout Connecticut, the Nutmeg Board of Education has been struggling to adopt a budget because certain federal grants are ending this year. As the Board members have considered options, they have told Mr. Superintendent that the district…
In a well-reasoned opinion, a unanimous panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has reaffirmed that an independent school’s 501(c)(3) status as a tax-exempt organization does not make the school a recipient of federal financial…
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Dear Legal Mailbag,In our behavioral child study team meetings, we are often confused about when an FBA and BIP should be created and put into place. Ideally, we would do this after tier…
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court considered whether James Freed, a city manager who maintained a “mixed use” Facebook account on which he posted information about his personal life and his job, violated the First Amendment and was subject to…
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Dear Legal Mailbag:
As a middle school principal and faithful reader of Legal Mailbag, I appreciated learning about the status of text messages between teachers in the Newsblast a couple weeks ago (March 7…
Last week, the Education Committee considered HB 5339 and, after discussion, voted to advance it beyond the committee. The proposed bill would prohibit institutions of higher education in Connecticut from considering “the school disciplinary history of an applicant for admission…
The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) has released a data snapshot about education access for students with disabilities drawn from OCR’s 2020-21 Civil Rights Data Collection (“CRDC”). The CRDC “gathers information about student access to educational…