by pddg_admin | Jan 28, 2016 | Legal Developments and News
The Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) has temporarily suspended the submission of certified payroll records (CPRs) to the eCPR system, after receiving numerous reports of problems uploading CPRs to the eCPR system. DIR expects that system upgrades will be...
by pddg_admin | Jan 14, 2016 | Legal Developments and News
California Public Records Act (CPRA) requests frequently seek email correspondence between district officials and/or governing board members. Recently, a California court held that where such records related to a cabinet member’s complaints about a superintendent,...
by pddg_admin | Jan 11, 2016 | Legal Developments and News
Similar to the California Department of Education’s recent bid threshold increase for school districts, the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office has announced that the bid threshold for community college districts will be increased to $87,800...
by pddg_admin | Jan 4, 2016 | Press Releases
San Francisco, CA—Dannis Woliver Kelley, California’s premier education law firm, is pleased to announce that it is opening offices in Sacramento and San Luis Obispo, staffed by ten lawyers joining the firm as of January. Christian Keiner, Roman Muñoz, Marie...
by pddg_admin | Dec 30, 2015 | Legal Developments and News
The California Department of Education has announced that the bid threshold for school districts will be increased to $87,800 for certain contracts as defined in Public Contract Code section 20111(a), effective January 1, 2016. In 2015, school and community college...
by pddg_admin | Dec 16, 2015 | Legal Developments and News
School and community college districts are frequently asked to disclose records under the California Public Records Act (CPRA). While many requests can be broad and difficult to respond to, a recent appellate opinion stresses that if litigation forces disclosure of...
by pddg_admin | Dec 8, 2015 | Legal Developments and News
Young’s Market Company v. Superior Court (Cal. Ct. App., Nov. 19, 2015, D068213) 2015 WL 7302204 The Court of Appeal upheld an Order obtained by Dannis Woliver Kelley to allow San Diego Unified School District to conduct limited environmental testing of a...
by pddg_admin | Nov 18, 2015 | Legal Developments and News
On November 17, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, reversed a district court judgment in a case where the school waited too long to initiate a due process hearing for a child eligible for special education. ( I.R. ex rel. E.N. v. Los Angeles Unified...
by pddg_admin | Nov 17, 2015 | Publications
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