Here's how to train school personnel so that efforts to check students for symptoms of COVID-19 and chart their potential exposure to the virus keep FERPA compliance in mind.
The lawsuit criticizes the definition of sexual harassment under the new Title IX rule. It also alleges the new rule fails to consider the unique challenges that may arise in the K-12 environment and disregards the needs of young students and students with disabilities.
The switch to virtual learning during the COVID-19 pandemic raises numerous privacy concerns under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and the IDEA. Here's how educators can prevent privacy breaches while providing special education online.
Some may think that using various terms to describe learning that's being done from home while schools are closed due to the pandemic does not matter. But term confusion can have legal and other implications.
Disclosures under "health and safety emergency" exception to privacy law are limited to law enforcement, public health officials, trained medical personnel and parents.
With the ever-growing complexities of state and federal regulations, and expansions of legal needs and special ed cases, district leaders need to consider multiple factors to find the specialists necessary for proper representation and counsel.
Laws recently passed in multiple states expanding the definition of excused absences to include mental health days move issues such as teenage depression, anxiety and suicide out of the shadows, and raise awareness.
