What's new

• CSBA/ACSA/LAUSD/SFUSD/TUSD v. State of California: Verified Petition (9/11)
• ELA Advisory: Student Fees Litigation Update (5/11) 
• ELA Update: ELA comments on Attorney General opinion request regarding charter school operations (5/11)
• Fact sheet: Transfer law comparison (3/11)
• Fact sheet: Legal guidelines for lobbying activity (2/11)
• Fact sheet: Legal guidelines: Use of public resources for ballot measures and candidates (2/11)
• Frequently Asked Questions: Open Enrollment Act for low-achieving schools as added by SBX5 4/Romero (12/10)
• CSBA/ELA v. Schwarzenegger: Verified Petition (11/10) 
• Open Enrollment Act/SBX5 1: CSBA's sample BP/AR/E 5118 - Open Enrollment Act Transfers (11/10) 
• Conflict of Interest Fact Sheet (08/10)
• ELA Update: Supreme Court rules employers may review workers’ text messages (6-22-10)
• CSBA and education leaders sue state: Historic school funding lawsuit demands the state provide the education the constitution guarantees students (5-20-10)
• ELA victory officially ends 8th-grade Algebra 1 mandate (5-04-2010)
• ELA Update: Court rules ERAF to be included in calculation of district’s redevelopment tax payments (02-2010) 
• ELA update: Interviews of child abuse victims by social workers and law enforcement (02-2010)

Key issues 

• Certificated layoffs (01-2010)
• Certificated layoffs for attorneys audio (2009) (mp3)
• Certificated layoffs for attorneys PowerPoint (2009) (ppt)
• Mandate reimbursements restored in ELA case (9-2009)
• ELA update: Court rules on failure to obtain CLAD certification (9-2009)
• State appeals major ELA victory on mandated cost funding (8-2009)
• CSBA, ACSA join suit to ensure repayment of $12 billion owed to schools (6-2009)
• August Certificated Layoff Window (5-2009)
• August Layoffs webinar (2009) (video)
• August Layoffs PowerPoint slides (2009) (pdf)
• ELA update: Certificated layoffs and ‘bumping’ rights of part-time employees (3-2009) 
• ELA update: Court upholds ban on use of school mailboxes for campaign purposes (6-23-09)
• ELA update: Board member censure upheld (9-5-08)
• SB 777 Frequently Asked Questions (2-08) 

Legal resources

• Filling a board vacancy (12-10) 
• Ethics training not required for school board members (3-06)
• Sexual harassment training requirements for school districts (2-08)
• GASB 45 for school attorneys (6-06) 
• Williams settlement resource page