Here are the 5 P’s of leadership succession planning
Ensuring that you are always able to look to “the next person up” is an adaptive challenge, requiring both strategic thinking and culture change.
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Students’ good grades tilt IEP lawsuit in favor of district
School Law Briefings is your guide to legally significant K12 news, including recaps of precedential court rulings, regulatory updates and agency guidance. In this edition, the Third Circuit finds a Pennsylvania district provided FAPE for a student with ADHD, New Jersey teachers lose an age discrimination case, and Title IX gives Connecticut athletes power to sue over a transgender competition.
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IDEA doesn’t require a district to cover accommodations for postsecondary program
The IDEA does not apply to postsecondary education and so, if a student with a disability attends a college program on a college campus, they are beyond the IDEA’s domain, court rules.
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Have you tried restarting? Midyear is the ideal time to think about what next year will look like
Three of our favorite words are launch, reset and close. They describe moments in a time when leaders can step out of the whirlwind to confirm that the energy is going in the right direction.
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K12 Legal News: How recent rulings impact districts’ IDEA and Title IX responsibilities
When a student with a disability speaks a language other than English, a district may face challenges in determining what his special education needs are versus how his limited English proficiency status affects his learning.
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How schools can request an extension for ARP spending as deadline looms
The U.S. Department of Education hopes to alleviate some of the pressure by allowing requests for a 14-month extension.
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These are the top 10 topics school boards are discussing right now
This may come as news to some superintendents and district leaders: Book bans and pride flags are not the main topics of discussion at every school board meeting in the country. Still, school boards are grappling with some complicated topics.
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How Mt. Diablo Unified leader and his team are controlling the narrative
Frequent and enthusiastic communication is Superintendent Adam Clark’s top tool in maintaining enrollment at the Mt. Diablo Unified School District in Northern California.
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3 superintendents depart, a history-making hire and more relocations
In a historic hire, LaShakia Moore was named the first Black superintendent of Florida’s Flagler County School District after two months of serving as the interim.
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Empowering educators: The influence of sponsorship
We owe it to those in our network to provide more than mentorship. What impact would we have on those aspirational educators and leaders if more of us embraced the idea of providing sponsorship?
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