Why is ADA Compliance Vital for Your Digital Properties? Your website needs to be accessible to a range of potential users with disabilities, as part of your compliance with the American Disabilities Act (ADA). Failure to do so won’t just limit your potential client...
K-12 data privacy laws are in place to mitigate the increasing risk of a data breach and to protect the personal data belonging to students, staff members, and administrators. Districts are required to have a data policy which outlines the processes, policies, and...
The recent cybersecurity attacks in school districts should be keeping district administrators and board members up at night. School districts are one of the top targets for hackers. Just google top industries most vulnerable to cyber attacks and the education sector...
The new Clean School Bus Program under the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will run between 2022 and 2026, and the EPA will cover up to 100% of the costs of replacing existing diesel school buses as well as charging or fueling infrastructure. The new law, which...
There has been a growing shortage of school bus drivers for the last few years, both in New York and nationally; however, the COVID-19 pandemic further increased the shortage of drivers and had a tremendous impact on school districts, leaving them each facing their...
What is an executive session? An executive session is the portion of the school board meeting that is not open to the public and is only permitted for a limited number of specific purposes. Who can enter into an executive session? Board of Education (school board)...
Once the pandemic started in March 2020, schools received a waiver allowing them to serve free meals to all students in the district. The benefit was huge. Now that the pandemic seems to be on its way out, this waiver is set to go away on June 30, 2022. With that in...
Most school leadership, from executive management to the Board, are extremely focused on ensuring students are getting a strong education that will allow them to get into the top-tiered colleges, looking to develop strategies towards new modes of learning, and finding...
Background For many schools, the largest non-labor cost is facilities. For years this has created some disparity in the comparability of financial statements between schools, as some schools own their facilities while others rent. Several years ago, the Financial...
