School Safety

Alabama Legislative Update – Week 13: Budgets Approved, Medicaid and Tax Bills Sent to Governor Bentley

by Denise Killebrew, Dennis Nabors | Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell &... on 5/15/2013

With the constitutional deadline of midnight on the 30th day closing in, Alabama lawmakers worked at a feverish pace to complete work on some of the most substantial and controversial legislation in the 2013 session....more

Alabama Legislative Update – Week 10: Slow and Steady Movement by Senate and House

by Denise Killebrew, Dennis Nabors | Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell &... on 4/23/2013

As the Alabama Legislature moves closer to adjournment, legislation is making slow but steady progress. Tuesday and Thursday marked the 21st and 22nd days of the 2013 Regular Session. With only eight legislative days left and...more

School Board Liability for Sexual Abuse of Students by Staff - An Area to be Watched

by Elizabeth K.P. Grace | Lerners LLP on 4/12/2013

In the last year, there have been two Ontario trial decisions dealing with sexual abuse of students by teachers. While we are still awaiting the full decision in the second case, it appears these cases may have yielded...more

Dodgeball Eliminated From New Hampshire School

by Cynthia A. Augello | Cullen and Dykman LLP on 4/9/2013

Do you recall your childhood days of playing dodgeball during gym class? Leaping to the left and right, diving to the ground, trying to escape elimination while dodgeballs streak past and constantly plotting your next attack....more

$41.7 Million Jury Verdict Against School Triggers Scrutiny of Travel Abroad Programs

by Paul G. Lannon, Miriam McKendall, Amanda Orcutt, Harold Potter | Holland & Knight LLP on 4/5/2013

The $41.7 million jury verdict last week against The Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut sent shock waves through the independent school community. A 15-year-old Hotchkiss student suffered insect bites on a...more

Education Update, No. 2 - April 2013: Keeping Your Students Safe From Child Abductions

by Celia Joseph | Fisher & Phillips LLP on 4/3/2013

A loud, beeping Amber Alert and accompanying visual banner filled the homes and screens of area television viewers on the evening of January 14, 2013, announcing the abduction of a five-year-old student from a Philadelphia...more

Capital Thinking Update - February 4, 2013

by Amy Davenport, Tanya DeRivi, Eugenia Edwards, Karen Kudelko, Matthew Kulkin, Jessica Monahan, Amy Budner Smith, Scott Thompson, Dana Weeks, Pam Welsh | Patton Boggs LLP on 2/11/2013

In This Issue: General Legislative; Debt Limit; Agriculture & Food; Budget, Appropriations; Cybersecurity; Education; Energy; Financial Services; Health Care; International Defense and Homeland Security; and,...more

Results Of MOL’s School Safety Enforcement Initiative

by Adrian Miedema | Dentons on 1/28/2013

The Ontario Ministry of Labour has released results of its enforcement initiative in Ontario schools, which resulted from the tragic death of an Ottawa area student while cutting a steel barrel....more

White House Gun Control Proposals Include School Safety And Mental Health Initiatives

by Amy Kosanovich Dickerson | Franczek Radelet P.C. on 1/22/2013

In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy, President Obama has announced numerous executive actions and legislative proposals to address gun control, school safety, and mental health issues nationwide. The White...more

Teacher Placed On Leave After Experiment Injures Two Students

by Demas Law Group on 9/14/2012

September 12, 2012—Elk Grove, CA—A teacher was placed on administrative leave after a science experiment went horribly wrong, injuring two eighth-grade students at Joseph Kerr Middle School. The chemical accident fortunately...more

Seventh Circuit Rules in Favor of District in Case Filed by Special Education Support Teacher

by Franczek Radelet P.C. on 2/10/2012

In Jackson v. Indian Prairie School District the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that the School District did not violate a special education support teacher’s substantive due process rights when the School District...more

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