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Summer vacation is winding down and teachers and students will soon be returning to classrooms across Oregon. While teachers are freshening up their classrooms for the new school year, administrators should remember to freshen up their legal complian...

Although the 2024 legislative short session was dominated by affordable housing and social services, several bills of interest to school districts were enacted in the 2024 and 2023 legislative sessions and will require some implementation. Recording...

On April 19, 2024, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) issued the long-awaited amended Title IX regulations, which include significant changes from the 2020 regulations. School districts have until August 1, 2024, to come into compliance with the...

As anticipated, the Ninth Circuit has waded back into the choppy waters of student online and off-campus speech following the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2021 ruling in Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L and found that a school was justified in discip...

The Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA) is set to consider language at its Feb. 7 meeting that could officially open the door to Oregon high school athletes profiting from Name Image Likeness (NIL) activities. An NIL activity is any business...

With 23 states having signed name, image, and likeness (NIL) bills or executive orders into law, including at least 12 with July 1 effective dates, NIL modernization is hours away from hitting college athletics. In response, the NCAA has issued an In...