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Risk Management
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Safety and Security
How much time, energy and focus do independent schools place on the titanic risks that accompany athletic events?
4 min read
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Risk Management
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Termination
Excerpted and adapted from NBOA’s new book, Culture Meets Compliance: the NBOA Guide to Assessing Human Resources at Independent Schools.
6 min read
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Employee Handbook
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Risk Management
Employees and families increasingly use school handbook language to pursue legal claims against schools.
3 min read
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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.
2 min read
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International
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Risk Management
Exchange programs and stays with host families are increasingly the norm. What risks do they bring?
2 min read
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Food Service
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Risk Management
Students at private schools are particularly high-risk for these serious but treatable illnesses.
4 min read
Projections
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Risk Management
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Safety and Security
Many of the costliest risks to independent schools involve people. By avoiding distractions and complacency, business officers can lead their communities to safety.
4 min read
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Leadership
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Risk Management
Launching a campus-wide risk management program may seem daunting, but with attention to leadership, resources and communication, any school can get started.
12 min read
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Crisis Management
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Risk Management
Why conduct a comprehensive risk audit? Because a school can never be too prepared. “I would rather do 10 false-alarm lockdowns than have somebody be afraid to call a lockdown.”
9 min read
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.
4 min read
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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.
3 min read
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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?
3 min read
Managing relationships between schools and parents is becoming more, not less, difficult.
2 min read
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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.
6 min read
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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.
3 min read
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Human Resources
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Risk Management
Aggressive pay-equity laws are on the rise.
3 min read
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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.
2 min read
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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.
3 min read
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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.
10 min read
For independent schools at risk of an earthquake, the uncertainty is unsettling — and the risk potentially disastrous.
3 min read
