In Jackson v. Methodist Health Services Corp., Case No. 23-1464 (7^th Cir. 2024), the Court weighed whether a health care system violated the religious freedoms of an employee who refused COVID testing as an alternative to vaccination against the disease.

The Supreme Court of the United States could have a 2025 term which has great significance to school districts.  While the Court has not yet fully determined its docket for this term, the cases it has decided hear, along with the cases which it could decide to hear, make for an interesting and potentially monumental year for school law.

We discussed the changes to tenure enacted in 2023 in a prior post here.  A subsequent change was made to correct an apparent oversight related to CTE teachers in the 2023 law via PA 103-617 (effective July 1, 2024).

ISBE has released a new Q&A to address the changes to 24-14 of the Illinois School Code made by Public Act 103-549. While the guidance is non-regulatory, as ISBE is the authority that hears licensure revocations, the answers are important to understand for Districts that seek licensure action against teachers who resign providing less than thirty (30) days' notice before the school year.