Episode 12: Are We There Yet? The Long March Toward Equity and Equality in School Finance

Episode 1: California Adds “Nonbinary” Gender Option to Identification Documents: Last year, Governor Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill (SB) 179, known as the "Gender Recognition Act," which adds a "nonbinary" gender option to state driver's licenses, identification cards, and birth certificates. by Let’s Talk - Lozano Smith Podcast

18 min listen

Episode 3: Developing Law on Social Media Accounts of Government Officials: Last year, the United States Supreme Court identified social media as “perhaps the most powerful mechanism available” today to make a person’s voice heard. But can a government official block their constituents’ voices online? by Let’s Talk - Lozano Smith Podcast

19 min listen

Episode 17: How Many Charter Schools Are Too Many Charter Schools? A Statewide Debate: Devon Lincoln talks with charter school law experts Ed Sklar and Claudia Weaver about the statewide conversation currently surrounding charter schools and the impact they have on traditional public schools. From recent teacher strikes, by Let’s Talk - Lozano Smith Podcast

49 min listen

Episode 25: The Evolving Landscape of Title IX Compliance: Title IX impacts more than just college athletics. Host Sloan Simmons talks with Michelle Cannon and Stephanie White of Lozano Smith’s Title IX Impact Team about the current status of the law, including the proposed regulations which contain sweeping r... by Let’s Talk - Lozano Smith Podcast

49 min listen

Episode 10: Preparing for 2019 – New Employee Leave and Accommodations Requirements: Are you prepared for 2019? Join Lozano Smith attorneys Dulcinea Grantham and Niki Nabavi Nouri as they discuss three important employee leave and accommodations requirements that will impact school districts and public agencies in the coming year. - by Let’s Talk - Lozano Smith Podcast

28 min listen

Episode 28: Top Myths of School Avoidance (Part 1): In Part 1 of our discussion on school avoidance, Sloan Simmons talks with Jennifer Baldassari and Susan Bishop about the challenges districts face in school avoidance issues from both a legal and practical perspective, by Let’s Talk - Lozano Smith Podcast

41 min listen

Episode 12: Are We There Yet? The Long March Toward Equity and Equality in School Finance: Following the release of the new California governor’s first proposed budget, Lozano Smith attorneys Devon Lincoln, Karen Rezendes and Mattie Scott sit down to discuss the long history of school finance in the state and how that history reverberates in... by Let’s Talk - Lozano Smith Podcast

40 min listen

Episode 6: Navigating the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act in California: Lozano Smith attorneys discuss some of the important aspects of California’s future and complex history with groundwater. Topics include the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSA), by Let’s Talk - Lozano Smith Podcast

19 min listen

Episode 2: Inclusivity Matters: Inclusivity is a mandate for all public entities – to create a positive, welcoming environment for all types of people and treat them fairly and equally. The government must also be neutral with respect to politics and religion. However, by Let’s Talk - Lozano Smith Podcast

32 min listen

Episode 8: The Rising Costs of the Public Records Act: This podcast addresses the tension between protecting personal information and the obligation to disclose public records. Striking the wrong balance may burden either the local agency, or the individual employee, with significant costs. by Let’s Talk - Lozano Smith Podcast

23 min listen

Episode 14: Police in Schools – The Role of a School Resource Officer: The role of law enforcement officers on school campuses is not well understood. Devon Lincoln is joined by attorney Tom Manniello, an expert in student discipline issues and discipline reform, and Jenell Van Bindsbergen, by Let’s Talk - Lozano Smith Podcast

41 min listen

Episode 7: School Safety and New Guidance on Addressing School Violence: Preventing school violence and ensuring school safety have become dominant topics and part of an ongoing national conversation. But what can a school district do, practically, to address these issues? This podcast will examine two recently released r... by Let’s Talk - Lozano Smith Podcast

27 min listen

Episode 13: ACSA Keynote Address – Everything I Needed to Know About Life, I Learned at the Table: This special episode of the podcast features a discussion with negotiator Sarah Kaatz and shares extended excerpts from her successful keynote address at the 2019 ACSA Negotiators' Symposium. Attorney Devon Lincoln talks with Sarah about the life insig... by Let’s Talk - Lozano Smith Podcast

42 min listen

Episode 9: A School District’s Ability to Discipline Students for Off-Campus Conduct: With texting and social media, it seems as though the line between school and “not school” are blurred. School districts are often faced with determining whether they can discipline a student for their conduct while not at school. In this episode, by Let’s Talk - Lozano Smith Podcast

27 min listen

Episode 20: From ABC to CBD – When Marijuana and Schools Collide: The issue of students using marijuana in California’s public schools is ever-evolving, leaving many confused as to the state of the law. Sloan Simmons engages experts in this area of school law, Aimee Perry and Alyssa Bivins, by Let’s Talk - Lozano Smith Podcast

64 min listen

Episode 19: Religion in the Schools – A Vehicle for Inclusivity: Attorney Michael Smith, joined by associate Josh Whiteside, talks with host Devon Lincoln about the role that religion plays in the lives of public school students and their teachers and other staff, and how schools can create a climate of inclusivity ... by Let’s Talk - Lozano Smith Podcast

45 min listen

Episode 18: Restraints – How the Law Guides Some of the Most Challenging Classroom Decisions: In a wide ranging discussion on a sensitive and challenging topic, Devon Lincoln discusses the law regarding the use of restraints in school with special education attorneys Sarah Garcia and Roxana Khan. The attorneys discuss real world experiences, by Let’s Talk - Lozano Smith Podcast

38 min listen

Episode 16: It’s Time to Fill Out Your Form 700!: It’s that time of year, when California public servants must prepare and submit their annual statements of economic interest. The statement, commonly referred to as Form 700, is due on April 2 this year. Devon Lincoln talks to ethics expert Tom Gauth... by Let’s Talk - Lozano Smith Podcast

21 min listen

Episode 11: Fulfilling the Promise of the Charter Schools Act – How Competition Sparked Trilingual Immersion in a Traditional Public School: In this Lozano Smith podcast, moderator Sloan Simmons engages with Dr. Daryl Camp, Superintendent of the Riverbank Unified School District, and Lozano Smith Partner Megan Macy, regarding a burgeoning and healthy competition between two separate dual im... by Let’s Talk - Lozano Smith Podcast

25 min listen

Episode 15: Life with Janus: Labor and employment specialists Lou Lozano and Darren Kameya join Devon Lincoln for a discussion of the unique challenges arising at the public employee union bargaining table in 2019. The conversation covers the fallout from the 2018 Supreme Court de... by Let’s Talk - Lozano Smith Podcast

48 min listen

Episode 31: Fall 2019 Legislative Roundup – Student Bills: Sloan Simmons talks with Lozano Smith Student Practice Group Leaders Ruth Mendyk and Aimee Perry regarding this year’s legislative enactments impacting students and tips for school districts in preparing for compliance with these new laws. - by Let’s Talk - Lozano Smith Podcast

55 min listen

Episode 21: Watts in Your Wallet – Financing Clean Energy Projects (Part 1): In Part I of a discussion on the complex topic of clean energy projects and how they are financed, Sloan Simmons talks with Devon Lincoln and Daniel Maruccia about the wide range of such projects and the challenges public agencies face in determining h... by Let’s Talk - Lozano Smith Podcast

42 min listen

Episode 37: The New Year Brings A Huge Wave of Affordable Housing Legislation: What Does It All Mean for California Cities?: Host Devon Lincoln talks with William P. Curley III and Jenell Van Bindsbergen, co-chairs of the firm’s Municipal Practice Group, about the unprecedented crush of affordable housing legislation enacted by the California Legislature in 2019. by Let’s Talk - Lozano Smith Podcast

48 min listen

Episode 22: Course Correction? The Legislature Looks at Big Changes for Charter Schools in California: Host Devon Lincoln talks with Ed Sklar and Erin Hamor about new charter school legislation causing a stir in Sacramento. If enacted, the pending bills will drastically alter California’s current charter school landscape. - Show Notes & References by Let’s Talk - Lozano Smith Podcast

34 min listen

Episode 29: Top Myths of School Avoidance (Part 2): In Part 2 of our discussion on school avoidance, Sloan Simmons continues the discussion with Jennifer Baldassari and Susan Bishop about case examples, myths, and best practices. - Show Notes & References 3:15 Confirmation Bias by Let’s Talk - Lozano Smith Podcast

53 min listen

Episode 51 (Part 2) Student Vaccines and Student Masks – Late February 2022 Developments: Hosts Joshua Whiteside and Sloan Simmons are back to discuss the latest litigation development related to a school district’s student COVID-19 vaccination mandate and the rapidly changing guidance and directives related to student and staff mask requir... by Let’s Talk - Lozano Smith Podcast

17 min listen

Episode 23: Looking at the Bottom Line – How California’s State Budget Process Directly Impacts Your School District’s Options: Host Devon Lincoln talks with veteran experts Karen Rezendes and Mattie Scott about the California budget process, Governor Newsom’s first State budget (just passed on June 13), and the high stakes local school districts face when planning around the a... by Let’s Talk - Lozano Smith Podcast

67 min listen

Episode 27: What Is Least Restrictive Environment? What the Courts Say: Host Sloan Simmons talks to Lozano Smith’s Special Education Practice Group Leader Marcy Gutierrez and special education litigator Kristy Boyes about the challenges schools face in providing the least restrictive environment (LRE) to students with spec... by Let’s Talk - Lozano Smith Podcast

45 min listen

Episode 26: No Easy Answers – Cities, School Districts, and the Statewide Affordable Housing Crisis: As California seeks legislative solutions for the statewide housing crisis, new laws increasingly seek to ease the path toward construction of affordable housing. Implementation of these laws has widespread financial and planning impacts on cities, by Let’s Talk - Lozano Smith Podcast

43 min listen

Episode 36: On Location at CSBA’s AEC – Insights on Critical Issues Impacting Education Agencies by Statewide Education Law Experts (A Bonus Episode of the Lozano Smith Podcast): While on location at the California School Boards Association’s (CSBA) 2019 Annual Education Conference, host Sloan Simmons talks with CSBA General Counsel, Kathryn Meola, and one of Lozano Smith’s founding partners, Mike Smith, by Let’s Talk - Lozano Smith Podcast

49 min listen

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