Responding to Sexual Harassment Allegations:
Revised Self-Audit Checklist and Best Practices for School Districts
In May 2020, the U.S. Department of Education (“DOE”) issued new regulations and for the first time addressed sexual harassment as a form of sex discrimination in violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. § 1681) (“Title IX”).
COVID-19 Self-Audit Checklist & Best Practices
Free Download to the Public!
One of the most important obligations of school districts is to ensure the health and safety of its students. In order to help you navigate the recent COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, we have created a “Health and Safety Plan for COVID-19 Self –Audit Checklist & Best Practices”.
2020 Fair Labor Standards Regulations...
Is Your School District Ready?
The U.S. Department of Labor revised its rules, making many employees previously classified as exempt from overtime requirements now eligible for overtime pay under the FLSA.
If Gun Violence Comes to Your School...
Will Your Security Plan be Bulletproof?
Over the past 20 years, Columbine, Sandy Hook, and Marjory Stoneman Douglas have come into the American vernacular as reminders that gun violence happens in our schools.
When Rituals Go Wrong:
How School Districts Can Prevent and Respond to Hazing
Protecting Students in the Era of #MeToo
Combating student-on-student bullying and harassment is an age-old challenge for school districts.
Serving Homeless Students Update:
McKinney-Vento Act Self-Audit Checklist & Best Practices for School Districs
Homeless children enrolled in public schools have nearly doubled in less than a decade.
Equal Access to Education for Undocumented Students Checklist Update
School Leaders Risk Management Association
The Mission of the School Leaders Risk Management Association (SLRMA) is to assist public school districts (K–12) with supplemental risk management support. We help you accomplish your own mission of risk avoidance in a number of ways.
- We provide pro-active, timely tools to help prevent unwanted and unwarranted school board legal liability claims.
- We keep members informed of the current legal issues that will likely affect your school district through our work with the Federal Legislation Insurance Committee (FLIC).
- We give members access to special reports featured in our Newsroom. The topics are specific to the School Board Legal Liability school boards face today and will in the future.
Members are equipped with an array of self-audits and checklists to help ensure you are in compliance with the latest requirements and guidelines which govern school boards and school districts. We are a not-for-profit and are governed by a Board of Directors. The Board consists of current Executive Directors of State School Boards Associations.
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- District Wins Federal Appellate Decision concerning its Suspension of Football Coach for Praying after Games on Field with Players. August 31, 2021
- Three Takeaways for School Districts After the Supreme Court’s Recent Ruling on Students’ First Amendment Rights July 27, 2021
- Federal Appellate Court Permits Geographic and Socioeconomic Factors as Criteria for Selective Public School Admission June 16, 2021
- Appellate Court Holds Constitutional Right created by Collective Bargaining Agreement May 27, 2021
- Qualified Immunity: a Powerful Defense Against Students’ Constitutional Violation Claims April 29, 2021