On April 6, 2017, Matthew John Markling is giving a presentation entitled, “Social Media and Your Schools” to principals at the Mid-Ohio Educational Service Center, which currently provides specialized academic and support services to 16 school districts in Crawford, Morrow, and Richland Counties.
Matthew John Markling serves as General Counsel for the Ohio Educational Service Center Association (“OESCA”) and McGown & Markling is a longstanding strategic partner with OESCA. Please click here to view the March 29, 2017 OESCA Legislative e-Update. This e-Update provides information on the pending and enacted bills of interest to Ohio’s public education community. Bills […]
The case of Struckman v. Teays Valley Local School Dist. Bd. of Edn., 2017-Ohio-1177, demonstrates the critical importance of contract language in transactions involving public entities. The case involves a real estate purchase by a school district of “approximately 70 acres of real estate” from a local farmer. Struckman at ¶ 6. The purchase agreement […]
In the case of Zanesville v. Jones, 2017-Ohio-1112, an Ohio appellate court found that strict compliance with the formalities of the Ohio Open Meetings Act are not necessary to support a conviction for disrupting a lawful meeting. The case involved the conviction of a citizen who “attended the regularly scheduled meeting of the Zanesville City […]
As we previously blogged, the United States Supreme Court was asked, in the case of Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District, to answer the following question: What level of educational benefit must school districts confer on children with disabilities in order to provide them with the free appropriate public education (“FAPE”) guaranteed by the Individuals […]
In the case of Portage Cty. Bd. of Dev. Disabilities v. Portage Cty. Educators’ Assn. for Dev. Disabilities, 2017-Ohio-888, an Ohio appellate court found that an arbitrator did not exceed his authority in imposing reasonable limits on a board’s authority to increase an account clerk’s job duties. The case involved an account clerk in the […]