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Issue 1 · July 31, 2012
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Education Administrators
School
Bullying: How to Build a Bully-Free Campus and Staff
Thursday,
September 13, 2012 @ 1 PM Eastern
About one-third of students are bullied each year, and even adults can
be bullied in a school setting, as evidenced recently by the school bus
monitor who was brought to tears by her young tormenters. This briefing
will examine the nature of bullying and describe the steps that
visionary schools are taking to become bully-free.
How
to Write an Effective Anti-Harassment Policy and Related Procedures to
Include
Wednesday,
October 24, 2012 @ 1 PM Eastern
An effective anti-harassment policy must encompass all types of
harassment (including sex- and race-based), all channels (from
face-to-face to social media), and all types (student-to-student,
staff-to-student, staff-to-staff, and student-to-staff). Get guidance
on how to capture all these situations in a comprehensive policy that
defines your responsibilities and lowers your legal risks.
Webinars Will Be Accessible on CD!
What if you have a time conflict and can't participate in a
webinar of interest on its scheduled date and time? Don't worry. You
can still take advantage of our CD option. Soon after completion of
each webinar, the program will be available on CD. Click
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Public School Bus Service for
Charter & Private Students on No-School Days
Public school districts in Illinois that provide
transportation services to students who attend charter or nonpublic
schools do not have to provide those services when public school is not
in session, ruled the Illinois Fifth District Appeals Court on June 18,
2012. The ruling upheld a lower court ruling.
Section 29-4 of the Illinois State School Code requires
school districts to provide transportation to students attending charter
or nonpublic schools if they live one-and-a-half or more miles from the
school they attend. Students attending charter and nonpublic schools
must board the bus along its normal route and be dropped off at the
point most accessible to the school they attend along the normal bus
route.
Several students at Sister Thea Bowman Catholic School
relied on East St. Louis School District No. 189 to provide
transportation to and from their private school. For the 2009-2010
school year, School District No. 189 decided that it would provide
transportation to parochial schools only when public school is in
session. The parents and guardians filed a lawsuit alleging that the
Illinois State School Code requires School District No. 189 to provide
transportation whether or not public school classes are in session.
The Circuit Court of St. Clair County granted summary
judgment to School District No. 189, finding that the legislature did
not intend to require school districts to provide transportation to
nonpublic school pupils on days when public school is not in session.
The circuit court concluded that "the cost, convenience, and
efficiency of the district would be strained if the court ordered it to
provide transportation to students of Sister Thea Bowman Catholic School
and that school decided to drastically expand its school year."
The court further noted that, during the 2010-2011 school year, there
were approximately 15 days on which the district did not provide
transportation for students of the Catholic school because the public
schools were not in session.
On appeal, the Fifth District Appeals Court sided with the
trial court, ruling that the Illinois legislature did not intend to
impose a burden on public school districts by requiring them to provide
nonpublic school students with transportation services that exceed what
they provide to their own school students. "Section 29-4 simply
allows nonpublic school students to utilize the public school
district's existing bus transportation and nothing more," wrote
the Appeals Court.
The court expressed sympathy with the plight of the
children who live in failing public school districts and who seek
alternative schools to access quality education. However, the court
noted, "We will not read into the statute a requirement which the
legislature did not expressly include, especially one which places such
a heavy additional burden on our already burdened public school
districts."
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