In 1975, Congress passed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), formerly known as the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, with the goal of ensuring that students with a qualified disability are provided with a Free Appropriate Public...
Continue Reading →For most of the history of college and university promotion and tenure practices, eligible non-tenured faculty could expect that by year 6 or 7 that they would be able to apply for promotion from assistant professor to associate professor...
Continue Reading →Prior to 2014, public school teachers in both Missouri and Kansas enjoyed due process protections against arbitrary suspension or dismissal from employment. That changed in Kansas in 2014 when the Legislature abolished teacher tenure and gave individual school districts the...
Continue Reading →Medical students are certainly aware of the importance placed on professionalism in both the didactic and clinical settings. Such professionalism violations can have a negative impact on a medical student’s chances of matching in the residency match process. For...
Continue Reading →In 2020, the federal Department of Education amended the regulations implementing Title IX, providing more procedural protections for university students facing Title IX misconduct hearings. These new regulations established baseline procedural protections for university students named as respondents in Title...
Continue Reading →Every student appeal case is unique but many cases share common fact patterns and themes. The fundamental dichotomy has to do with whether the dismissal was “academic” or “disciplinary.” Dismissals described as involving ‘professionalism violations’ are a hybrid and can...
Continue Reading →Public school students, parents, teachers, administrators and school board members are now finally informed of the rules relating to an attempt by school officials to sanction or punish off-campus student speech which school officials find offensive. On June 23, 2021...
Continue Reading →Our firm has experience in preparing medical student clerkship grade appeals of failing or “no pass” clerkship grades which have been unfairly and erroneously assigned to our clients. These grades are obviously quite important because a failing clerkship grade can...
Continue Reading →To students in medical school, dental school, nursing school, pharmacy school, other graduate programs: who have been referred to the Student Progress Committee. Most students do not realize the risks of appearing before a committee that has the power to...
Continue Reading →This week the Kansas Board of Regents voted unanimously to approve a “temporary” policy allowing tenured faculty to be suspended, dismissed or terminated from employment by their respective university. It went into effect immediately and expires at the end of...
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