Educational institutions in the state of Illinois take academic integrity very seriously. High schools prepare students for college and to become productive members of society. Violations of academic integrity undermine this mission. Academic misconduct infractions keep students from pursuing a university education and damage their future prospects.
When colleges and universities see academic misconduct on a student's record, they will hesitate to offer scholarships. They might also deny admission to their institution. Future employers or colleagues might react similarly. A legal advisor from Lento Law Firm can help you through a tricky academic misconduct case, ensuring your child's future academic success.
What is Academic Misconduct?
Academic misconduct is any action that attempts to gain an unfair advantage in an academic setting. Academic misconduct occurs at all educational levels, but it's most common in high schools, colleges, and universities.
Academic misconduct is a broad category. It's important for high school students and their parents to understand their school's expectations and definitions when they enroll. Most high schools will publish their academic integrity policies in the school handbook or on their website.
What are some common forms of academic misconduct at the high school level?
- Plagiarism: Most schools define plagiarism as copying or incorporating someone else's work into one's own without giving proper credit. Unfortunately, plagiarism is a common occurrence. Accidental plagiarism is common as well, so high schools devote time and resources to educating students on how to avoid it.
- Cheating: Cheating is an umbrella term for any instance when a student doesn't follow the instructions of a teacher or faculty member regarding any academic work. Cheating could be submitting work prepared by someone else, copying another student's work on a homework assignment or test, allowing someone else to copy one's work, or using resources the teacher has forbidden.
- Bribery: Offering cash or something of value to a faculty member, school administrator, or another student in exchange for a better grade or completed work is academic misconduct.
- Falsification or forgery – Misrepresenting or forging information in order to gain an academic advantage is also misconduct. Providing false information to be excused from classes or homework, fabricating academic records, or helping someone else falsify information are all usually prohibited by a high school's academic integrity code.
- Collusion: Collusion includes working with others to plagiarize, cheat, bribe, or falsify information for the purpose of gaining academic advantage. If students don't have permission to work together on a project and do so anyway, they might be in breach of the school's rules.
- Sabotage: Many schools consider actions intended to harm someone else's academic performance as academic misconduct. Sabotage could be deliberately disrupting others' tests or experiments, changing a group project without informing the other group members, or any actions that prevent others from completing their work.
How Illinois High Schools Handle Academic Misconduct Cases
Since academic dishonesty offenses vary in seriousness, the penalties aren't the same across the board. Some schools leave instances of cheating or dishonesty on an assignment up to individual teachers or departments. Students might receive zero credit for their assignment or test if caught cheating. If they continue to cheat, teachers may have the right to bring the issue up to school administrators for further disciplinary action.
What are the penalties of an academic misconduct violation?
In more serious cases of academic misconduct, like plagiarism or bribery, schools might take more drastic action. If a student's academic dishonesty continues beyond one incident, their school might give them a failing grade or prevent them from participating in extracurricular activities. The Chicago Public Schools Student Code of Conduct considers plagiarizing and forgery as “seriously disruptive behaviors” and, if repeated, can be punishable by suspension.
Other consequences of academic dishonesty in high school could be more long-term. If a student is accused of a serious offense, their counselor might report the infraction to colleges and universities when asked.
Is there a disciplinary hearing for academic misconduct in high school?
Illinois students have certain rights under federal law when it comes to disciplinary actions. Students barred from public school for a long-term suspension have the right to due process. Schools must provide a hearing and allow students the chance to defend themselves. In Illinois public schools, parents may also appeal suspensions if they feel their child was wrongfully suspended.
Unfortunately, children with disabilities are often targets of academic discipline, including suspension or expulsion. If your child is threatened with these disciplinary actions, Illinois regulations permit you to request a hearing and have a legal advocate present with you.
What to do if your child's school notifies you of an academic misconduct violation
While district policies vary, Chicago public schools must notify parents when their child is suspended. Not all academic misconduct violations result in suspension, however. If you receive notice that your child has committed an academic dishonesty infraction, you should review the school code of conduct first. After that, try speaking with your child to get all the details of the incident and compare their account against the school's ethics code. Take as many notes as you can.
With your child's academic future at stake, you should consider consulting with a student discipline defense attorney before you decide on your next steps.
How A Student Defense Legal Advisor Can Help in Academic Misconduct Cases in Illinois
Why should you seek legal help for your child's academic misconduct case? You might think that you have no right to this kind of assistance in academic disciplinary matters and that you must deal with the school yourself. In reality, you and your child are entitled to contact a legal advocate in the case of academic misconduct, and you should do so if you have concerns about your child's future.
Accusations of academic misconduct weigh on students for a long time. Attorney Joseph D. Lento and the Lento Law Firm have helped countless high school and college students nationwide in cases of academic misconduct. Call the firm at 888-535-3686 for an initial consultation with a trusted academic misconduct legal advisor.
Illinois high schools where Joseph D. Lento can help as your child's student's academic misconduct advisor during investigations, hearings and appeals include, but are not limited to, the following school districts:
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- Abingdon Community Unit School District 217
- A-C Central Community Unit School District 262
- Addison School District 4
- Adlai E. Stevenson High School District 125
- Akin Community Consolidated School District 91
- Albers School District 63
- Alden Hebron School District 19
- Aledo Community Unit School District 201
- Allendale Community Consolidated School District 17
- Allen-Otter Creek Community Consolidated School District 65
- Alsip-Hazelgreen-Oaklawn School District 126
- Altamont Community Unit School District 10
- Alton Community Unit School District 11
- Alwood Community Unit School District 225
- Amboy Community Unit School District 272
- Anna Community Consolidated School District 37
- Anna Jonesboro Community High School District 81
- Annawan Community Unit School District 226
- Antioch Community Consolidated School District 34
- Apostolic Learning Academy
- Aptakisic-Tripp Community Consolidated School District 102
- Arbor Park School District 145
- Arcola Community Unit School District 306
- Argenta-Oreana Community Unit School District 1
- Argo Community High School District 217
- Arlington Heights School District 25
- Armstrong Township High School District 225
- Armstrong-Ellis Consolidated School District 61
- Arthur Community Unit School District 305
- Ashley Community Consolidated School District 15
- Ashton-Franklin Center Community Unit School District 275
- Astoria Community Unit School District 1
- Athens Community Unit School District 213
- Atwood Hammond Community Unit School District 39
- Atwood Heights District 125
- Auburn Community Unit School District 10
- Aviston School District 21
- Avoca School District 37
- Avon Community Unit School District 176
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- Ball Chatham Community Unit School District 5
- Bannockburn School District 106
- Barrington Community Unit School District 220
- Barrington Community Unit School District 220
- Barry Community Unit School District 1
- Bartelso School District 57
- Bartonville School District 66
- Batavia Unit School District 101
- Beach Park Community Consolidated School District 3
- Beardstown Community Unit School District 15
- Beecher City Community Unit School District 200
- Beecher Community Unit School District 200U
- Belle Valley School District 119
- Belleville School District 118
- Belleville Township High School District 201
- Bellwood School District 88
- Belvidere Community Unit School District 100
- Bement Community Unit School District 5
- Benjamin School District 25
- Bensenville School District 2
- Benton Community Consolidated School District 47
- Benton Consolidated High School District 103
- Berkeley School District 87
- Berwyn North School District 98
- Berwyn South School District 100
- Bethalto Community Unit School District 8
- Bethel School District 82
- Big Hollow School District 38
- Bismarck-Henning Community Unit School District 1
- Bloom Township High School District 206
- Bloomingdale School District 13
- Bloomington School District 87
- Blue Ridge Community Unit School District 18
- Bluford Community Consolidated School District 114
- Bond County Community Unit School District 2
- Bourbonnais Elementary School District 53
- Braceville School District 75
- Bradford Community Unit School District 1
- Bradley Elementary School District 61
- Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School District 307
- Breese School District 12
- Bremen Community High School District 228
- Brimfield Community Unit School District 309
- Brookfield-Lagrange Park School District 95
- Brooklyn Unit District 188
- Brookwood School District 167
- Brown County Community Unit School District 1
- Brownstown Community Unit School District 201
- Brussels Community Unit School District 42
- Buncombe Consolidated School District 43
- Bunker Hill Community Unit School District 8
- Burbank School District 111
- Bureau Valley Community Unit School District 340
- Burnham School District 154-5
- Bushnell Prairie City Community Unit School District 170
- Butler School District 53
- Byron Community Unit School District 226
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- Cahokia Community Unit School District 187
- Cairo Unit School District 1
- Calhoun Community Unit School District 40
- Calumet City School District 155
- Calumet Public Schools District 132
- Cambridge Community Unit School District 227
- Canton Union School District 66
- Carbon Cliff-Barstow School District 36
- Carbondale Community High School District 165
- Carbondale Elementary School District 95
- Carlinville Community Unit School District 1
- Carlyle Community Unit School District 1
- Carmi-White County Community Unit School District 5
- Carrier Mills-Stonefort Community Unit School District 2
- Carrollton Community Unit School District 1
- Carterville Community Unit School District 5
- Carthage Community Unit School District 338
- Cary Community Consolidated School District 26
- Casey-Westfield Community Unit School District C-4
- Cass School District 63
- Catlin Community Unit School District 5
- Center Cass School District 66
- Central A&M Community Unit District 21
- Central City School District 133
- Central Community High School District 71
- Central Community Unit School District 3
- Central Community Unit School District 301
- Central Community Unit School District 4
- Central School District 104
- Central School District 51
- Central Stickney School District 110
- Centralia High School District 200
- Centralia School District 135
- Century Community Unit School District 100
- Cerro Gordo Community Unit School District 100
- Chadwick-Milledgeville Community Unit School District 399
- Champaign Community Unit School District 4
- Chaney-Monge School District 88
- Channahon School District 17
- Charleston Community Unit School District 1
- Cherry School District 92
- Chester Community Unit School District 139
- Chester Non-High School District 122
- Chester-East Lincoln Community Consolidated School District 61
- Chicago Heights School District 170
- Chicago Public Schools 299, Illinois
- Chicago Ridge School District 127-5
- Christopher Unit School District 99
- Cicero Public School District 99
- Cissna Park Community Unit School District 6
- Clay City Community Unit District 10
- Clinton Community Unit School District 15
- Coal City Community Unit School District 1
- Cobden School Unit District 17
- Collinsville Community Unit School District 10
- Colona School District 190
- Columbia Community Unit School District 4
- Community Consolidated District 6
- Community Consolidated School District 15
- Community Consolidated School District 168
- Community Consolidated School District 180
- Community Consolidated School District 181
- Community Consolidated School District 204
- Community Consolidated School District 46
- Community Consolidated School District 59
- Community Consolidated School District 62
- Community Consolidated School District 93
- Community High School District 117
- Community High School District 128
- Community High School District 155
- Community High School District 218
- Community High School District 94
- Community High School District 99
- Community Unit School District 16
- Community Unit School District 2
- Community Unit School District 200
- Community Unit School District 3
- Community Unit School District 300
- Community Unit School District 303, Illinois
- Community Unit School District 4
- Consolidated High School District 230
- Consolidated School District 158
- Cook County School District 130
- Cornell Community Consolidated School District 426
- Cornell Community High School District 70
- Coulterville Unit School District 1
- Country Club Hills School District 160
- Cowden-Herrick Community Unit School District 3A
- Crab Orchard Community Unit School District 3
- Crescent City Community Consolidated School District 275
- Crescent Iroquois Community District 252
- Creston Community Consolidated School District 161
- Crestwood Community Unit School District 4
- Crete Monee Community Unit School District 201U
- Creve Coeur School District 76,
- Crystal Lake Community Consolidated School District 47
- Cumberland Community Unit School District 77
- Cypress School District 64
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- Dakota Community Unit School District 201
- Dallas City Community Unit School District 336
- Dalzell School District 98
- Damiansville School District 62
- Danville Community Consolidated School District 118
- Darien School District 61
- Decatur School District 61
- Deer Creek-Mackinaw Community Unit School District 701
- Deer Park Community Consolidated School District 82
- Deerfield School District 109
- Dekalb Community Unit School District 428
- Deland-Weldon Community Unit School District 57
- Delavan Community Unit District 703
- Department of Corrections School District 428, Illinois
- DePue Unit School District 103
- Desoto Consolidated School District 86
- Diamond Lake School District 76
- Dieterich Community Unit School District 30
- Dimmick Community Consolidated School District 175
- District 50 Schools
- Divernon Community Unit School District 13
- Dixon Unit School District 170
- Dodds Community Consolidated School District 7
- Dolton School District 148
- Dolton School District 149
- Dongola School Unit District 66
- Donovan Community Unit School District 3
- Downers Grove Grade School District 58
- Du Page High School District 88
- Du Quoin Community Unit School District 300
- Dunlap Community Unit School District 323
- Dupage County School District 45, Illinois
- Dupo Community Unit School District 196
- Durand Community Unit School District 322
- Dwight Common School District 232
- Dwight Township High School District 230
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- Earlville Community Unit School District 9
- East Alton School District 13
- East Alton-Wood River Community High School District 14
- East Aurora Public School District 131
- East Coloma School District 12
- East Dubuque Unit School District 119
- East Maine School District 63
- East Moline School District 37
- East Peoria Community High School District 309
- East Peoria School District 86
- East Prairie School District 73
- East Richland Community Unit School District 1
- East St. Louis School District 189
- Eastland Community Unit School District 308
- Edgar County Community Unit District 6
- Edinburg Community Unit School District 4
- Edwards County Community Unit School District 1
- Edwardsville Community Unit School District 7
- Effingham Community Unit School District 40
- Egyptian Community Unit School District 5
- El Paso-Gridley Community Unit School District 11
- Eldorado Community Unit District 4
- Elementary School District 159
- Elmhurst School District 205
- Elmwood Community Unit School District 322
- Elmwood Park Community Unit School District 401
- Elverado Community Unit School District 196
- Elwood Community Consolidated School District 203
- Emmons School District 33
- Erie Community Unit School District 1
- Eswood Community Consolidated District 269
- Eureka Community Unit District 140
- Evanston Township High School District 202
- Evanston-Skokie Community Consolidated School District 65
- Evergreen Park Community High School District 231
- Evergreen Park Elementary School District 124
- Ewing Northern Community Consolidated District 115
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- Fairfield Community High School District 225
- Fairfield Public School District 112
- Fairmont School District 89
- Fairview School District 72
- Farmington Central Community Unit School District 265
- Farrington Community Consolidated School District 99
- Fenton Community High School District 100
- Field Community Consolidated School District 3
- Fieldcrest Community Unit School District 6
- Fisher Community Unit School District 1
- Flanagan Community Unit School District 4
- Flora Community Unit School District 35
- Flossmoor School District 161
- Ford Heights School District 169
- Forest Park School District 91
- Forest Ridge School District 142
- Forrestville Valley Community Unit School District 221
- Fox Lake Grade School District 114
- Fox River Grove Consolidated School District 3
- Frankfort Community Consolidated School District 157C
- Frankfort Community Unit School District 168
- Franklin Community Unit School District 1
- Franklin Park School District 84
- Freeburg Community Consolidated School District 70
- Freeburg Community High School District 77
- Freeport School District 145
- Fremont School District 79
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- Galatia Community Unit School District 1
- Galena Unit School District 120
- Galesburg Community Unit School District 205
- Gallatin Community Unit School District 7
- Galva Community Unit School District 224
- Gardner Community Consolidated School District 72C
- Gardner-South Wilmington Township High School District 73
- Gavin School District 37
- Geff Community Consolidated School District 14
- General George Patton School District 133
- Geneseo Community Unit School District 228
- Geneva Community Unit School District 304
- Genoa Kingston Community Unit School District 424
- Georgetown-Ridge Farm Community Unit District 4
- Germantown Hills School District 69
- Germantown School District 60
- Giant City Community Consolidated School District 130
- Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley Community Unit School District 5
- Gifford Community Consolidated School District 188
- Gillespie Community Unit School District 7
- Girard Community Unit School District 3
- Glen Ellyn Community Consolidated School District 89
- Glen Ellyn School District 41
- Glenbard Township High School District 87
- Glencoe School District 35
- Glenview Public Schools
- Golf Elementary School District 67
- Goreville Community Unit District 1
- Gower School District 62
- Grand Prairie Community Consolidated School District 6
- Grand Ridge Community Consolidated School District 95
- Granite City Community Unit School District 9
- Grant Community Consolidated School District 110
- Grant Community High School District 124
- Grant Park Community Unit School District 6
- Grass Lake School District 36
- Grayslake Community High School District 127
- Grayville Community Unit School District 1
- Greenfield Community Unit School District 10
- Greenview Community Unit School District 200
- Griggsville-Perry Community Unit School District 4
- Gurnee School District 56
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- Hall High School District 502
- Hamilton Community Consolidated School District 328
- Hamilton County Community Unit School District 10
- Hampton School District 29
- Hardin County Community Unit District 1
- Harlem Unit District 122
- Harmony Emge School District 175
- Harrisburg Community Unit School District 3
- Harrison School District 36
- Hartsburg Emden Community Unit School District 21
- Harvard Community Unit School District 50
- Harvey School District 152
- Havana Community Unit School District 126
- Hawthorn Community Consolidated School District 73
- Hazel Crest School District 152-5
- Henry-Senachwine Community Unit School District 5
- Heritage Community Unit School District 8
- Herrin Community Unit School District 4
- Herscher Community Unit School District 2
- Heyworth Community Unit School District 4
- Hiawatha Community Unit School District 426
- High Mount School District 116
- Highland Community Unit School District 5
- Hillsboro Community Unit School District 3
- Hillside School District 93
- Hinckley Big Rock Community Unit School District 429
- Hinsdale Township High School District 86
- Hollis Consolidated School District 328
- Homer Community Consolidated School District 33C
- Homewood Flossmoor Community High School District 233
- Homewood School District 153
- Hononegah Community High School District 207
- Hoopeston Area Community Unit School District 11
- Hoover-Schrum Memorial School District 157
- Hoyleton Consolidated School District 29
- Hutsonville Community Unit School District 1
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- Illini Bluffs Community Unit School District 327
- Illini Central Community Unit School District 189
- Illinois Valley Central Unit District 321
- Ina Community Consolidated School District 8
- Indian Creek Community Unit District 425
- Indian Prairie Community Unit School District 204
- Indian Springs School District 109
- Industry Community Unit School District 165
- Iroquois County Community Unit School District 9
- Iroquois West Community Unit School District 10
- Irvington Community Consolidated School District 11
- Itasca School District 10
- Iuka Community Consolidated School District 7
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- J. Sterling Morton High School District 201
- Jacksonville School District 117
- Jamaica Community Unit School District 12
- Jasper Community Consolidated School District 17
- Jasper County Community Unit District 1
- Jersey Community Unit School District 100
- Johnsburg Community Unit School District 12
- Johnston City Community Unit School District 1
- Joliet Public Schools District 86
- Joliet Township High School District 204
- Jonesboro Community Consolidated School District 43
- Joppa-Maple Grove Unit District 38
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- Kaneland Community Unit School District 302
- Kankakee School District 111
- Kansas Community Unit School District 3
- Keeneyville School District 20
- Kell Consolidated School District 2
- Kenilworth School District 38
- Kewanee Community Unit School District 229
- Kildeer Countryside Community Consolidated School District 96
- Kings Consolidated School District 144
- Kinnikinnick Community Consolidated School District 131
- Kirby School District 140
- Knoxville Community Unit School District 202
- Komarek School District 94
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- La Harpe Community Unit School District 335
- Ladd Community Consolidated School District 94
- LaGrange Elementary School District 102
- LaGrange Elementary School District 105
- LaGrange Highlands School District 106
- Lake Bluff Elementary School District 65
- Lake Forest Community High School District 115
- Lake Forest School District 67
- Lake Park Community High School District 108
- Lake Villa Community Consolidated School District 41
- Lake Zurich Community Unit School District 95
- LaMoille Community Unit School District 303
- Lansing School District 158
- Laraway Community Consolidated School District 70C
- LaSalle Elementary School District 122
- LaSalle-Peru Township High School District 120
- Lawrence County Community Unit District 20
- Lebanon Community Unit School District 9
- Leepertown Community Consolidated School District 175
- Leland Community Unit School District 1
- Lemont Township High School District 210
- Lemont-Bromberek Community School District 113A
- Lena Winslow Community Unit School District 202
- Leroy Community Unit School District 2
- Lewistown School District 97
- Lexington Community Unit School District 7
- Leyden Community High School District 212
- Liberty Community Unit School District 2
- Libertyville District 70
- Lick Creek Community Consolidated School District 16
- Limestone Community High School District 310
- Limestone Walters Community Consolidated School District 316
- Lincoln Community High School District 404
- Lincoln Elementary School District 156
- Lincoln Elementary School District 27
- Lincoln-Way Community High School District 210
- Lincolnshire-Prairieview School District 103
- Lincolnwood School District 74
- Lindop School District 92
- Lisbon Community Consolidated School District 90
- Lisle Community Unit School District 202
- Litchfield Community Unit School District 12
- Lockport School District 91
- Lockport Township High School District 205
- Logan Community Consolidated School District 110
- Lombard School District 44
- Lostant Community Unit School District 425
- Lovington Community Unit School District 303
- Lowpoint-Washburn Community Unit School District 21
- Ludlow Community Consolidated School District 142
- Lyons School District 103
- Lyons Township High School District 204
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- Macomb Community Unit School District 185
- Madison Community Unit School District 12
- Maercker School District 60
- Mahomet-Seymour Community Unit School District 3
- Maine Township High School District 207
- Malden Community Consolidated School District 84
- Manhattan School District 114
- Mannheim School District 83
- Manteno Community Unit School District 5
- Marengo Community High School District 154
- Marengo-Union Elementary Consolidated District 165
- Marion Community Unit School District 2
- Marissa Community Unit School District 40
- Maroa Forsyth Community Unit School District 2
- Marquardt School District 15
- Marseilles Elementary School District 150
- Marshall Community Unit School District C-2
- Martinsville Community Unit School District C-3
- Mascoutah Community Unit District 19
- Massac Unit District 1
- Matteson Elementary School District 162
- Mattoon Community Unit School District 2
- Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview-89
- Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Elementary School District 2C
- McClellan Community Consolidated School District 12
- McHenry Community Consolidated School District 15
- McHenry Community High School District 156
- McLean County Unit District No 5
- Medinah School District 11
- Mendota Community Consolidated School District 289
- Mendota Township High School District 280
- Meredosia-Chambersburg Community Unit School District 11
- Meridian Community Unit School District 101
- Meridian Community Unit School District 15
- Meridian Community Unit School District 223
- Metamora Community Consolidated School District 1
- Metamora Township High School District 122
- Midland Community Unit District 7
- Midlothian School District 143
- Midwest Central Community Unit School District 191
- Milford Community Consolidated School District 280
- Milford Township High School District 233
- Millburn Community Consolidated School District 24
- Miller Township Community Consolidated School District 210
- Millstadt Community Consolidated School District 160
- Minooka Community Consolidated School District 201
- Minooka Community High School District 111
- Mokena School District 159
- Moline Unit School District 40
- Momence Community Unit School District 1
- Monmouth Unit School District 38
- Monroe School District 70
- Monticello Community Unit School District 25
- Montmorency Community Consolidated School District 145
- Morris Community High School District 101
- Morris School District 54
- Morrison Community Unit School District 6
- Morrisonville Community Unit School District 1
- Morton Community Unit School District 709
- Mount Carroll Community Unit District 304
- Mount Olive Community Unit School District 5
- Mount Prospect School District 57
- Mount Vernon School District 80
- Mount Vernon Township High School District 201
- Pulaski Community Unit District 23
- Zion Community Unit School District 3
- Mulberry Grove Community Unit School District 1
- Mundelein Consolidated High School District 120
- Mundelein Elementary School District 75
- Murphysboro Community Unit School District 186
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- Naperville Community Unit School District 203
- Nashville Community Consolidated School District 49
- Nashville Community High School District 99
- Nauvoo-Colusa Community Unit School District 325
- Nelson Elementary School District 8
- Neoga Community Unit School District 3
- Neponset Community Consolidated District 307
- Nettle Creek Community Consolidated School District 24C
- New Athens Community Unit School District 60
- New Holland-Middletown Elementary School District 88
- New Lenox School District 122
- New Simpson Hill District 32
- New Trier Township High School District 203
- Newark Community Consolidated School District 66
- Newark Community High School District 18
- Niles Elementary School District 71
- Niles Township Community High School District 219
- Nippersink School District 2
- Nokomis Community Unit School District 22
- Norridge School District 80
- Norris City-Omaha-Enfield Community Unit School District 3
- North Boone Community Unit School District 200
- North Chicago School District 187
- North Clay Community Unit School District 25
- North Greene Unit District 3
- North Palos School District 117
- North Pekin & Marquette Heights School District 102
- North Shore School District 112
- North Wamac School District 186
- North Wayne Community Unit School District 200
- Northbrook School District 27
- Northbrook School District 28
- Northbrook/Glenview School District 30
- Northfield Township High School District 225
- Northwestern Community Unit School District 2
- Norwood Elementary School District 63
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- Oak Grove School District 68
- Oak Lawn-Hometown School District 123
- Oak Park and River Forest High School District 200
- Oak Park Elementary School District 97
- Oakdale Community Consolidated School District 1
- Oakland Community Unit School District 5
- Oakwood Community Unit District 76
- Oblong Community Unit School District 4
- Odell Community Consolidated School District 435
- Odin Community High School District 700
- Odin School District 122
- O'Fallon Community Consolidated School District 90
- O'Fallon Township High School District 203
- Oglesby Elementary School District 125
- Ohio Community Consolidated School District 17
- Ohio Community High School District 505
- Okaw Valley Community Unit School District 302
- Olympia Community Unit School District 16
- Opdyke-Belle Rive Community Consolidated School District 5
- Orangeville Community Unit School District 203
- Oregon Community Unit School Dist-220
- Orion Community Unit School District 223
- Orland School District 135
- Oswego Community Unit School District 308
- Ottawa Elementary School District 141
- Ottawa Township High School District 140
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- Palestine Community Unit School District 3
- Palos Community Consolidated School District 118
- Palos Heights School District 128
- Pana Community Unit School District 8
- Panhandle Community Unit School District 2
- Paris Union School District 95
- Park Forest School District 163
- Park Ridge Community Consolidated School District 64
- Park View Elementary - Morton Grove School District 70
- Patoka Community Unit School District 100
- Paw Paw Community Unit School District 271
- Pawnee Community Unit School District 11
- Paxton-Buckley-Loda Community Unit District 10
- Payson Community Unit School District 1
- Pearl City Community Unit School District 200
- Pecatonica Community Unit School District 321
- Pekin Community High School District 303
- Pekin Public School District 108
- Pembroke Community Consolidated School District 259
- Pennoyer School District 79
- Peoria Heights Community Unit School District 325
- Peoria Public Schools District 150
- Peotone Community Unit School District 207U
- Peru Elementary School District 124
- Pikeland Community Unit School District 10
- Pinckneyville Community High School District 101
- Pinckneyville School District 50
- Plainfield Community Consolidated School District 202
- Plano Community Unit School District 88
- Pleasant Hill Community Unit School District 3
- Pleasant Hill School District 69
- Pleasant Plains Community Unit School District 8
- Pleasant Valley School District 62
- Pleasantdale School District 107
- Polo Community Unit School District 222
- Pontiac Consolidated Community School District 429
- Pontiac Township High School District 90
- Pontiac-William Holliday School District 105
- Pope County Community Unit District 1
- Porta Community Unit School District 202
- Posen-Robbins Elementary School District 143-5
- Potomac Community Unit School District 10
- Prairie Central Community Unit School District 8
- Prairie Du Rocher Community Consolidated School District 134
- Prairie Grove Community School District 46
- Prairie Hill Community Consolidated School District 133
- Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144
- Prairieview-Ogden Community Consolidated District 197
- Princeton Elementary School District 115
- Princeton High School District 500
- Princeville Community Unit School District 326
- Prophetstown-Lyndon-Tampico Community Unit School District 3
- Prospect Heights School District 23
- Proviso Township High School District 209
- Putnam County Community Unit School District 535
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- Queen Bee School District 16
- Quincy School District 172
- O.W.V.A. Community Unit School District 208
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- Raccoon Consolidated School District 1
- Ramsey Community Unit School District 204
- Rankin Community School District 98
- Rantoul City School District 137
- Rantoul Township High School District 193
- Reavis Township High School District 220
- Red Bud Community Unit School District 132
- Red Hill Community Unit School District 10
- Reed Custer Community Unit School District 255U
- Rhodes School District 84-5
- Rich Township High School District 227
- Richland Grade School District 88A - District web site
- Richmond-Burton Community High School District 157
- Ridgeland School District 122
- Ridgeview Community Unit School District 19
- Ridgewood Community High School District 234
- Riley Community Consolidated School District 18
- River Bend Community Unit District 2
- River Forest School District 90
- River Grove School District 85-5
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- Robein School District 85
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- Rochester Community Unit School District 3A
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- Rockford Public Schools
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- Rondout School District 72
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- Roselle School District 12
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- Roseville Community Unit School District 200
- Rossville-Alvin Community Unit School District 7
- Round Lake Area Schools Community Unit District 116
- Roxana Community Unit School District 1
- Rutland Community Consolidated School District 230
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- Salem Community High School District 600
- Salem School District 111
- Salt Creek School District 48
- Sandoval Community Unit School District 501
- Sandridge School District 172
- Sandwich Community Unit School District 430
- Sangamon Valley Community Unit School District 9
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- Saunemin Community Consolidated School District 438
- Savanna Community Unit District 300
- Scales Mound Community Unit School District 211
- Schiller Park School District 81
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- School District 54
- School District U-46
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- Selmaville Community Consolidated School District 10
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- Seneca Township High School District 160
- Sesser-Valier Community Unit School District 196
- Shawnee Community Unit School District 84
- Shelbyville Community Unit School District 4
- Sherrard Community Unit School District 200
- Sherrard Community Unit School District 200
- Shiloh Community Unit School District 1
- Shiloh Village School District 85
- Shirland Community Consolidated School District 134
- Signal Hill School District 181
- Silvis School District 34
- Skokie School District 68
- Skokie School District 69
- Skokie School District 73-5
- Smithton Community Consolidated School District 130
- Somonauk Community Unit School District 432
- South Beloit Community Unit School District 320
- South Fork School District 14
- South Holland School District 150
- South Holland School District 151
- South Pekin School District 137
- South Wilmington Consolidated School District 74
- Southeastern Community Unit School District 337
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- Sparta Community Unit School District 140
- Spoon River Valley Community Unit School District 4
- Spring Lake Community Consolidated School District 606
- Spring Valley Community Consolidated School District 99
- Springfield School District 186
- Anne Community Consolidated School District 256
- Anne Community High School District 302
- Elmo Community Unit School District 202
- George Community Consolidated School District 258
- Joseph Community Consolidated School District 169
- Joseph Ogden Community High School District 305
- Libory Consolidated School District 30
- Rose School District 14-15
- Stark County Community Unit School District 100
- Staunton Community Unit School District 6
- Steeleville Community Unit School District 138
- Steger School District 194
- Sterling Community Unit District 5
- Steward Elementary School District 220
- Stewardson-Strasburg Community Unit District 5A
- Stockton Community Unit School District 206
- Streator Elementary School District 44
- Streator Township High School District 40
- Sullivan Community Unit School District 300
- Summersville School District 79
- Summit Hill School District 161
- Summit School District 104
- Sunnybrook School District 171
- Sunset Ridge School District 29
- Sycamore Community Unit School District 427
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- Taft School District 90
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- Thompsonville Community High School District 112
- Thompsonville School District 62
- Thomson Community Unit District 301
- Thornton Fractional Township High School District 215
- Thornton School District 154
- Thornton Township High School District 205
- Tinley Park Community Consolidated School Dst 146
- Tolono Community Unit School District 7
- Tonica Community Consolidated School District 79
- Township High School District 113
- Township High School District 211 (High school district) serves Palatine and Schaumburg Townships
- Township High School District 214
- Tremont Community Unit District 702
- Triad Community Unit School District 2
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- Triopia Community Unit School District 27
- Tri-Point Community Unit School District 6J
- Tri-Valley Community Unit School District 3
- Troy Community Consolidated School District 30C
- Tuscola Community Unit School District 301
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- Union Ridge School District 86
- Union School District 81
- United Community Unit School District 304
- United Township High School District 30
- Unity Point Community Consolidated School District 140
- Urbana School District 116
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- I.T. Community Unit School District 2
- Valley View School District 365U
- Valmeyer Community Unit School District 3
- Vandalia Community Unit School District 203
- Venice Community Unit School District 3
- Vienna High School District 133
- Vienna School District 55
- Villa Grove Community Unit School District 302
- Virden Community Unit School District 4
- Virginia Community Unit School District 64
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- Wabash Community Unit School District 348
- Wallace Community Consolidated School District 195
- Waltham Community Consolidated School District 185
- Waltonville Community Unit School District 1
- Warren Community Unit School District 205
- Warren Township High School District 121
- Warrensburg-Latham Community Unit District 11
- Warsaw Community Unit School District 316
- Washington Community High School District 308
- Washington School District 52
- Waterloo Community Unit School District 5
- Wauconda Community Unit School District 118
- Waukegan Public School District 60
- Waverly Community Unit School District 6
- Wayne City Community Unit School District 100
- Webber Township High School District 204
- Wesclin Community Unit School District 3
- West Aurora Public School District 129
- West Central Community Unit School District 235
- West Chicago Elementary School District 33
- West Harvey-Dixmoor Public School District 147
- West Lincoln-Broadwell E School District 92
- West Northfield School District 31
- West Pike Community Unit School District 2
- West Prairie Community Unit School District 103
- West Richland Community Unit School District 2
- West Washington County Community Unit District 10
- Westchester School District 92-5
- Western Springs School District 101
- Westmer Community Unit School District 203
- Westmont Community Unit School District 201
- Westville Community Unit School District 2
- Wethersfield Community Unit School District 230
- Wheeling Community Consolidated School District 21
- Whiteside School District 115
- Will County School District 92
- Williamsfield Community Unit School District 210
- Williamsville Community Unit School District 15
- Willow Grove School District 46
- Willow Springs School District 108
- Wilmette School District 39
- Wilmington Community Unit School District 209U
- Winchester Community Unit School District 1
- Windsor Community Unit School District 1
- Winfield School District 34
- Winnebago Community Unit School District 323
- Winnetka School District 36
- Winthrop Harbor School District 1
- Wolf Branch School District 113
- Wood Dale School District 7
- Wood River-Hartford Elementary School District 15
- Woodland Community Consolidated School District 50
- Woodland Community Unit School District 5
- Woodlawn Community Consolidated School District 4
- Woodlawn Community High School District 205
- Woodridge School District 68
- Woodstock Community Unit School District 200
- Worth School District 127
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- Yorkville Community Unit School District 115
- Yorkwood Community Unit School District 225
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- Zeigler-Royalton Community Unit School District 188
- Zion Elementary School District 6
- Zion-Benton Township High School District 126
It is critical to make certain academic misconduct charges at your child's Illinois high school are handled properly and that the accused student's interests and rights are protected from as early as possible during the investigative and disciplinary process. One reason, among many, is because even at high schools where a finding of responsibility for academic misconduct is made at a hearing, the investigation will set the stage for what the hearing panel is provided prior to a hearing (and what the hearing panel will in large part rely on at a hearing), and at high schools where the finding of responsibility is made solely through the investigative process, what takes place during the investigation itself will determine whether the accused student is found responsible or not responsible for academic misconduct.
Unfortunately, some parents make the mistake of not taking the necessary precautions as soon as possible when their child is accused of academic misconduct. Some people will mistakenly believe that if they "just explain what happened," their school will be fair and impartial and will arrive at the truth. In a perfect world this may be the case, but in a perfect world, being called to answer for alleged academic misconduct would not exist.
Fighting passionately for the future of his clients at schools throughout the nation for many years, Joseph D. Lento knows how important it is to mount the strongest defense because he understands that an accused high school student's academic future is on the line. He does not settle for the easiest outcome, and instead prioritizes his clients' needs and well-being. Joseph Lento is a licensed attorney in New Jersey and New York, is admitted as an attorney pro hac vice in state and federal court if needed when representing clients nationwide, and serves as an academic misconduct advisor to high school students facing investigations and disciplinary cases in Illinois and throughout the nation. Make certain your or your student's interests are protected - Contact National High School Academic Misconduct Defense Attorney Joseph D. Lento today at 888-535-3686.
