Jackson Public Schools- Legal Services
The engagement covers eight practice areas: general counsel and governance (Board policy review, Open Meetings Act and FOIA advice, board meeting attendance, conflict-of-interest questions); labor and employment (collective bargaining, grievances and arbitration, PERA and MERC matters, teacher tenure, discipline and investigations, FMLA/ADA/wage-and-hour); special education and Section 504 (IDEA, IEP and 504 disputes, state complaints, mediation, due process hearings, OCR complaints); student matters (discipline and expulsion, FERPA, Title IX, residency and enrollment, student free speech); civil rights and harassment (Title VI, Title IX, Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, Persons with Disabilities Civil Rights Act); business, finance, and construction (contracts, competitive bidding, construction disputes, real estate, insurance coordination); litigation in state and federal courts and administrative agencies; and annual training for administrators and the Board. Out of scope are bond counsel services for issuing debt and matters assigned by the District's insurer to panel counsel.
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