January 4, 2022
Two recent court decisions provide temporary relief to Head Start programs facing a January 31, 2022 deadline from the Biden administration that mandated vaccines for all workers and masks for all students aged [...]
December 14, 2021
The Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has just issued the following time-sensitive information regarding the submission of reports in the Provider Relief Fund [...]
November 8, 2021
The published Title X Final Rule “Ensuring Access to Equitable, Affordable, Client-Centered, Quality Family Planning Services” is effective as of today, November 8, 2021. Under the Final Rule, the U.S. Department of Health [...]
October 26, 2021
On October 25, 2021, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) updated its technical assistance document, What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws, [...]
September 20, 2021
On September 9, 2021, the Biden Administration released a six-prong COVID-19 Action Plan designed to employ a “science-based approach to vaccinate the unvaccinated, protect the vaccinated, keep schools safely open, increase testing [...]
September 15, 2021
The Biden administration plans to initiate rulemaking requiring all Head Start and Early Head Start teachers and staff to receive COVID-19 vaccination in an effort to allow schools to open safely. The Office [...]
April 6, 2021
The U.S. Department of Education released new policy guidance that will allow colleges and universities to use stimulus funds for a variety of student needs, including cancelling student debt in certain cases. [...]
March 8, 2021
As many commercial businesses and nonprofit organizations are submitting their Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) loan forgiveness applications, considering the possibility of “second draw” loans, and looking back over 2020, it is a good [...]
March 3, 2021
In April 2020, Congress enacted the first significant legislation that provided federal funding to individuals, organizations, and businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This statute, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act [...]
February 23, 2021
In late October and early November 2020, the SBA began distributing to lenders SBA Form 3509[1] and 3510[2] (the “Loan Necessity Questionnaire”) to collect supplemental information for its review of loan forgiveness applications, [...]