With more parents sending their kids to and from school in ride-share vehicles, schools wonder what their liability might be if a child is harmed using such services.
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Human Resources
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Risk Management
Vaping and drug use are increasing nationwide. Update your student handbook and develop an appropriate policy.
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Human Resources
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Risk Management
A visually impaired student requests to bring a service dog to school. Her teacher is severely allergic to animal hair. What do you do?
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Managing relationships between schools and parents is becoming more, not less, difficult.
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Crisis Management
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Governance
Don’t let powerful board dissenters, loose-lipped gossips or simply poor preparation hijack your school’s principles or plans when so much is on the line.
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Human Resources
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Risk Management
Craft a policy that can be explained alongside your mission, and you’ll find it easier to convey that it will strengthen your school’s core values.
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Human Resources
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Risk Management
Aggressive pay-equity laws are on the rise.
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Human Resources
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Risk Management
States are enacting employee background check laws that apply as equally to independent schools as they do to public schools.
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Human Resources
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Risk Management
Independent school attorneys lay out the basics on a growing list of issues that could challenge every school—if they aren’t already.
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Accounting
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Risk Management
When it comes to weaknesses in schools’ internal controls, these CPAs have seen it all. Here’s how to protect your school’s finances, reputation and future.
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For independent schools at risk of an earthquake, the uncertainty is unsettling — and the risk potentially disastrous.
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Safety & Security
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Risk Management
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Safety and Security
Rising incidence of campus violence moves an uncomfortable discussion to the fore.
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Risk & Compliance
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Planning
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Risk Management
A comprehensive plan that enables a school’s core offerings to continue after an emergency can not only save time and money during the recovery, but also foster community and connections.
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Schools re-examine their practices for preventing sexual harassment in the era of #MeToo. “If people do come forward and we don’t do anything, we are de facto condoning the behavior. As a result, we could lose good peopl
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Strategies
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Risk Management
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Safety and Security
The case for extending education and professional development to our schools’ security officers.
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Crisis Management
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Safety and Security
Following a year of widespread natural disasters, independent schools update their crisis management plans.
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CEO Notebook
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Risk Management
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Safety and Security
Schools are demonstrating a heartening show of unity to prevent further gun violence.
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Article by the Bolton Education Practice Group
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Risk & Compliance
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Human Resources
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Risk Management
Statements like “We’ve never had an incident” support an atmosphere of complacency.
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Should independent schools prohibit texting between faculty and students?
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