Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Eighth Circuit Decision Underscores...
School districts across the country are grappling with the intricacies of developing policies to address the needs of transgender, non-binary, and gender nonconforming students....
Supreme Court Revisits Long-Standing Rowley Standard
When developing and implementing IEPs for special needs students, special educators have been guided for more than three decades by what is called the...
Data Practices Roundup: Keeping Tabs on Recent Advisory Opinions
Advisory Opinions from the Data Practices Office (DPO) of the Minnesota Department of Administration are not legally binding, but compliance with an Advisory Opinion...
Burks v. Metropolitan Council: Has the Minnesota Supreme Court Thrown Private...
A recent Minnesota Supreme Court ruling that a Metro Transit bus passenger may access the video recording of an incident in which the passenger...
A Tale of Two Data Practices: Unlike Personnel Data, Educational Data...
School districts often receive subpoenas duces tecum compelling the disclosure of protected student records as part of a legal proceeding. As just one example,...






















































