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...
Tips to Prevent Wire and ACH Frauds
Utility Bill Auditing
Guest Article: Securing Tomorrow’s Future: The Importance of Intelligence Powered Cybersecurity in K-12 Schools
Artificial Intelligence Acceptable Use Policy
GASB Statement 101 – Compensated Absences
NYSLRS Enhanced Reporting – Gold Certification
Guest Article: Nonprofit Organization that Supports Schools: MusicBreeds: Rhythm Reach!
Using music as the driver, this local nonprofit organization empowers young people to build successful careers with a program centered on leadership, finance, entrepreneurship, and employment training. MusicBreeds services middle school and high school students through their music focused after-school program, summer camp, and online learning center.
Zero-emission School Bus Mandate – Update
Artificial Intelligence – Use with Caution
s Artificial Intelligence, or AI, has been thrust into the public consciousness, many parents have become increasingly worried about its potentially negative effects on their children. In response to this, many school districts have been creating policies to ensure that teachers and students use AI responsibly. With input from key stakeholders such as administrators, teachers, students, IT departments, and the community an AI use policy should seek to enable teachers to supplement their students’ learning rather than supplant it. Any sensible AI policy should also seek to emphasis AI with humans in the loop.
Guest Article: Video-conferencing: Protecting against eavesdroppers using Zerify Defender
Hackers are getting more creative in finding areas where data can be exploited. Many video-conferencing platforms have provided an easy solution for doing business, but they can open private conversations to eavesdroppers and even with gated private rooms, they can be breached.
Guest Article: Beyond FERPA: Data Destruction – Is Your District Compliant?
Apr 18, 2022
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...
Guest Article: 5 Non-Technical Preventive Cybersecurity Controls
Apr 18, 2022
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...
Clean School Bus Program
Apr 18, 2022
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...
NEW TRANSPORTATION GUIDELINES
Apr 18, 2022
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...
Executive Sessions: Questions and Answers
Apr 18, 2022
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)...
Universal Free Lunch Expires June 30, 2022
Apr 18, 2022
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...
School Board Analysis
Feb 9, 2022
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...
Lease Accounting – Schools
Feb 9, 2022
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...