Religion in Public Schools Legal Updates
Charter schools have become “ground zero” in the ongoing larger battles over the role of religion in public education. Join attorneys who recently won a major appellate court victory on behalf of two charter schools in this update on key legal issues. The session will provide a bit of background on the larger legal issues at both the state and federal levels, review recent major court rulings specifically related to religion in charter schools, discuss the efforts of charter advocates in the cases, and provide practical tips for charter school leaders who must navigating the legal crossfire.
Presented by
Eric Premack
Executive Director & Founder
Charter Schools Development Center
Eric Premack is the founding Director of CSDC. For 30 years, Eric has played a leading role in the development and spread of chartered schools, including helping to draft and implement chartered schools policy in over two dozen states, at the federal level, and overseas. He has developed groundbreaking charter school policy, planning, implementation, oversight, and leadership development practices that have been emulated throughout the US and internationally.
Greta Proctor
Partner
Procopio
Greta Proctor is the leader of Procopio’s Education practice. Greta advises on a wide range of operational, governance, and ever-changing regulatory issues for classroom and non-classroom based charter schools. Greta has worked extensively on charter renewals, including appeals. She also counsels schools through special proceedings ranging from OCR complaints to FCMAT extraordinary audits. Greta provides frequent trainings on topics such as teacher credentialing, Board governance, the Brown Act, Public Records Act, avoiding conflicts of interest under the Political Reform Act and Government Code section 1090, and new legislation impacting her clients.
Kevin Troy
Partner
Young, Minney & Corr, LLP
Since 2014, Kevin M. Troy has represented charter schools in State and Federal courts, and before various California state and local administrative agencies. Kevin has represented clients in constitutional challenges, mandamus actions regarding the approval, renewal, revocation, and funding of charter schools, Proposition 39-related actions, accounting disputes, challenges to state and local audits, unfair business practices actions, protected activity retaliation actions, disputes as to the allocation of federal funding, employment discrimination actions, and challenges to expulsion decisions, among many others. Kevin has represented numerous clients in both external and internal investigations and has advised on countless public law issues, including CalSTRS and CalPERS law, the Public Records Act, Government Code 1090, the Political Reform Act, unfunded state mandates, public employee labor law, gifts of public funds, the Government Claims Act, and Title I funding.
