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The firm offers a complete line of legal services to public school
districts. The firm has served as the Board Attorney for the Newton School
District for almost 40 years and has more recently been named Board Attorney for
the Goddard, Hesston and Augusta districts. The firm also represents the Harvey
County Special Education Cooperative.
The firm offers school district tailored services and advice in most
areas of the law that concern public school services including the areas
of:
- Kansas Open Meetings
Act- KOMA
- Kansas Open Records
Act- KORA
- Family Educational
Rights and Privacy Act- FERPA
- Labor negotiations-
Professional Negotiations Act
- Employment law
- Americans with
Disability Act- ADA
- Family Medical
Leave Act- FMLA
- Civil Rights laws-
Title VII
- Age Discrimination
in Employment Act- ADEA
- Fair Labor
Standards Act- Wage and Hour- FLSA
- Teacher Tenure and
Due Process law
- Bidding law
- Student Suspension
and Expulsion law
- School Finance law
- Individuals with
Disabilities Education Act- IDEA
- Disabled Students -
Section 504
The firm has substantial experience working with school boards. In
addition to the Newton, Goddard and Hesston school boards, the firm
represented the boards of Pittsburg, Dodge City, Winfield, Leavenworth,
Newton, Hays and Arkansas City in the Kansas school finance litigation that
occurred from the mid-1980s through the supreme court case in 1994.
The firm currently represents Schools For Fair Funding, Inc. and the
Dodge City, Salina, Hays, Augusta, El Dorado, Emporia, Winfield, Derby,
Arkansas City, Newton, Leavenworth, Independence, Fort Scott and Great Bend
school districts in the current school finance litigation filed in the
United States District Court in Wichita and the Kansas District Court in
Topeka.
In a labor relations setting, the firm has served as chief labor
negotiator for U.S.D. 373-Newton for over fifteen years and for Goddard for
over five years. The firm also recently completed negotiations for the
board in U.S.D. 260-Derby. The firm has gone through the mediation process
under the Kansas statutory procedure fourteen times, the fact-finding process
twice and the issuance of unilateral contracts twice. The firm has also
participated in the Interest Based Bargaining process in Newton for more
than four years and in Goddard for more than two years.
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