While district-controlled Facebook, Instagram and Twitter/“X” accounts can certainly be a great tool for engaging stakeholders – particularly Gen X and Millennial parents – it is important for board members and administrators...more
Every year as May 1 approaches, Connecticut school districts are confronted with an unpleasant, albeit familiar, process. For better or worse, teacher non-renewal is a fact of life under the Teacher Tenure Act and the...more
4/25/2023
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Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA) ,
Compensation & Benefits ,
Educational Institutions ,
Employee Retention ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Layoffs ,
School Districts ,
Teachers ,
Tenure ,
Termination
The 2021 Regular Session of the Connecticut General Assembly concluded on June 9, 2021, but the primary source of action on education law issues was a special session of the General Assembly and ensuing “budget implementer”...more
8/10/2021
/ Charter Schools ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Educational Institutions ,
Emergency Management Plans ,
General Assembly ,
Hairstyle Discrimination ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Native American Issues ,
Public Sector Unions ,
School Districts ,
Special Education ,
State and Local Government ,
State Budgets ,
Team Mascots ,
Vaccinations ,
Wage and Hour
Spring is in the air….and so is budget season! For Connecticut board of education members and administrators the annual budget ritual can be an exhausting and politically-delicate process. As important as it is to rally the...more
It’s been almost exactly a year since Public Act 16-67 – officially entitled “An Act Concerning the Disclosure of Certain Education Personnel Records, Criminal Penalties for Threatening in Educational Settings and the...more
With the start of a new school year, students are not the only ones who have homework. To the contrary, school board members and their respective districts’ central office administrators have their own assignment -- ensuring...more
$4.48 million. That’s how much the Pine Bush School District in central-New York just agreed to pay to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of current and former students who alleged that school administrators were...more
7/20/2015
/ Anti-Discrimination Policies ,
Anti-Harassment Policies ,
Board of Education ,
Bullying ,
Discrimination ,
Educational Institutions ,
Harassment ,
Investigations ,
Personal Liability ,
Protected Class ,
Recidivism ,
Religious Discrimination ,
School Districts ,
Settlement ,
Students ,
Title IX ,
Title VI ,
Training
On May 12, 2014, the Connecticut Secretary of State’s website posted the Department of Labor’s Family and Medical Leave for School Paraprofessionals final regulations. Under the new regulations, Connecticut school districts...more