2025 WNY Educational Law Conference

August 6, 2025

Session Presentation Slides and Handouts

Opening Sessions

8:50-9:45 NYSSBA Senior Staff Counsel Jeff Mongelli

9:45-10:30 The View From Albany: Conversation with Jeff Mongelli, Daniel Morton-Bentley, Counsel, NYSED, Brian Graham, Superintendent of Grand Island Schools. Facilitated by Karl Kristoff, General Counsel Orleans-Niagara BOCES

Concurrent Session

Bella Room

Amore Room

Victorian Room

Concurrent Session: Session One (10:35- 11:30)

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Program- ing and the Federal Government Office of Civil Rights: Updates on Status of Issues Impacting Schools Including DASA.

Guidelines and Pitfalls in Provision of Services to Non-Public School Students.

Concurrent Session: Session Two (12:30- 1:25)

Collective Bargaining: Issues, Pitfalls and Process.

Special Education Update

Student Discipline and Commissioner’s Decisions.

Concurrent Session: Session Three (1:30 - 2:25)

The “Nuts and Bolts” of School Construction

2025 WNY Law Conference Evaluation Form

All conference participants are asked to complete the form. Attorneys seeking Continuing Law Education Credit must complete the form.