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A PERSONAL NOTE, AND A BIT OF HISTORY….
The TSALD has been a fundamental building block of my career for over three decades. The Digest is the home of my alter egos—the Law Dawg and ARD Man. I […]
SERVICE ANIMALS ON CAMPUS: LEGAL AND PRACTICAL GUIDANCE FOR SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS
INTRODUCTION Service animals have been a part of society for a long time, but the services they provide have greatly expanded over the years. An animal can be trained to […]
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2014 TABLE OF ARTICLES
FEB Lisa A. Brown Avoiding Liability Under The Fair Labor Standards Act MAR Joe Tanguma What Administrators Need To Know To Avoid Retaliation Claims APRIL Robb D. Decker Employee […]
2014 TABLE OF CASES
A.W. v. Humble ISD, (Nov./Dec.) Adams v. Cedar Hill ISD, (April) Albarran v. Fort Bend ISD, (Jan.) Aleman v. Edcouch Elsa ISD, (Feb.) Alief ISD v. Perry, (Feb.) Alvarez v. […]
2014 SUBJECT MATTER INDEX
In order to make the Texas School Administrators’ Legal Digest more useful to administrators and attorneys as a resource for researching and answering legal questions, the following subject matter index is […]
THE LATEST DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION GUIDANCE ON BULLYING OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES
October was Bullying Prevention Awareness Month and the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued new guidance to schools about bullying of students with disabilities. The Dear […]
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CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING & OTHER INVALUABLE LESSONS I’VE LEARNED REPRESENTING TEXAS EDUCATORS
For more than eleven years, I represented public school employees, both at-will and contractual, in all manner of employment-related situations. As a staff attorney, and later the General Counsel of […]
“MORE” ON NAVIGATING THE UNCHARTED WATERS OF PROCUREMENT OF CONTRACTS
This article is intended to supplement and to extend the discussion of the issues raised in the September 2013 edition of the Texas School Administrators’ Legal Digest. While the Texas […]
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BACK TO SCHOOL CASE ROUND UP
It’s time again for the back-to-school issue of the Legal Digest, including our round up of important legal developments to remember as you start the 2014-2015 school year. This year […]