Risk Management

  • Compliance
  • | Employee Benefits

Frequently Asked Questions about the New Overtime Rule This item is protected.

Confusion persists over changes to the FLSA overtime exemption charges. Teachers are exempt, but schools could see their employment costs grow for many other staff.
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  • Contract
  • | Risk Management

Protecting the Bottom Line: Best Contracting Practices to Minimize Loss

Proven strategies and best practices to minimize potential revenue losses involving construction projects, tuition payments or third-party vendors.
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  • Safety and Security
  • | Trips

Travel Assurance

Rising anxieties over international travel programs have schools stepping up due diligence, buttoning up procedures. “The reality is, there but for the grace of God goes any school.”
12 min read

Projections  

  • Crisis Management
  • | Safety and Security

Counter to Our Missions

Independent schools must be resolute in providing the safest of havens where those wishing to do harm are quickly identified and weeded out.
4 min read

CEO Notebook  

  • Leadership
  • | Risk Management

Tapping Your Inner Superhero

After last week's heartbreaking shootings in Orlando, it's comforting to be spending this week among what I consider to be the best kind of professional company: independent school business officers and business office s
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  • Compliance
  • | Facilities

OSHA's Jurisdiction over Independent Schools This item is protected.

Yes, your school is subject to OSHA regulations. And “common sense” precautions may not be legally compliant.
5 min read

CEO Notebook  

  • Compliance
  • | Employment

Be Prepared for New Overtime Rules

Last month, more than 20 of your peers and colleagues spent 90 minutes asking one question after another of Grace Lee, NBOA Vice President Legal Affairs. The following week, some 360 schools participated in an NBOA webin
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  • Food Service
  • | Risk Management

The New Allergy-Safe Meal Plan

How are independent schools handling allergens in their dining operations to prevent tragedies, abide by the law and serve food that is both healthy and affordable?
12 min read
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  • Compliance
  • | Employee Benefits

ACA Compliance and Reporting: Independent Schools’ Most Frequently Asked Questions This item is protected.

From coaching staff, to long-term subs, answers to business officers’ most vexing questions about the Affordable Care Act.
12 min read
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  • Risk Management
  • | Safety and Security

A Very Real Threat: Preventing Sexual Abuse This item is protected.

Schools get serious about establishing, documenting and following procedures to curb sexual abuse involving faculty and staff. “It takes a community to keep kids safe.”
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CEO Notebook  

  • Compliance
  • | Legal

Announcing the 2016 NBOA Award Recipients

Each year we have a unique opportunity to recognize two colleagues who reflect our highest professional standards and our community's aspirations for excellence within independent school business and financial operations
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  • Risk Management
  • | Termination

The Terminated: Getting Employee Departures Right This item is protected.

Whether voluntary or not, faculty and staff departures are both inevitable and potentially fraught. Here’s how to get them right.
12 min read
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  • Compliance
  • | Contract

Complex Equations: Three Big HR Issues for the Year Ahead

Accommodating transgender staff and students, staffing on school-related overnights and travel, and employer joint liability in the context of independent contractors.
8 min read

After School  

  • Culture
  • | Trips

After School: at Home on the Water

A business officer's 40-year love affair with sailing.
3 min read
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After School  

  • Culture
  • | Trips

After School: Gifts Beyond the Business Office, and the Classroom

A former chief financial officer connected with the students at her school by chaperoning overnight trips.
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  • Accounting
  • | Compliance

A Major Overhaul for Independent School Financial Statements

What’s in the FASB’s proposed changes to nonprofit financial statements? A look ahead.
6 min read

CEO Notebook  

  • Boards and Trustees
  • | Compliance

A New School Year, a Bold Guide to Change

It's often been said that the only constant is change. As we enter another school year, this cliché is spot-on.
3 min read
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  • Risk Management
  • | Technology

Greetings from Kazakhstan: Hackers Target Independent Schools This item is protected.

From the archives: A sinister email, a twisted digital trail and an eye-opening journey into the realm of cybersecurity. One school's story. 
14 min read
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  • Compliance
  • | Human Resources

Renewed Emphasis on Independent Contractor Misclassifications

Key questions that help you get the classification right.
4 min read
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  • Compliance
  • | Trips

International Student Homestays: Panacea or Pandora's Box?

For U.S. independent day schools and boarding schools alike—and economically as well as culturally—there is much to like about the potential for an international student “homestay” program.
9 min read

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