Month: March 2021

Much of the media coverage and discussion of President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) has focused on stimulus checks and employee paid-leave provisions.  However, ARPA also included several other significant provisions that affect public school districts and their special education programs.  ARPA allocated nearly $123 billion to a new Elementary and Secondary Schools…

Organized labor has renewed its efforts at the state and federal level to expand various labor protections related to employees’ rights to organize and collectively bargain in the workplace.  House and Senate Democrats introduced the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act) on February 4, 2021 (the House previously passed the PRO Act in…