Feb 19, 2009 by Lee Gaby
The American Association of School Administrators opened its Annual Conference today with a variety of presentations. School PR experts told attendees that communication must run both ways. Former Fairfax County, Va., school communicators, Meg Carnes and Kitty Porterfield urged moving away from one-way model of school communication and embracing the role of Web 2.0 among multi-generational school stakeholders. They...
Feb 12, 2009 by Lee Gaby
The Association of Governmental Risk Pools (AGRIP) announced that Cheryle Mangels,ARM, has been chosen to serve as President of the organization for a two-year term of office. Ms. Mangels is the Executive Director of the Colorado School Districts Self-Insurance Pool. (CSDIP)
Feb 5, 2009 by Lee Gaby
Female athletes in Indiana just got a break from the Indiana High School Athletic Association, which has avoided a lawsuit over the issue of whether softball and baseball are comparable sports. The IHSAA board recently voted 18-9 to let girls try out for baseball, even if their school has a softball team. Prior to this decision, girls could participate on a boys’ teams in baseball, basketball, football, soccer ...
Tagged: gender equity in sports
Feb 3, 2009 by Lee Gaby
The Institute has begun compiling a directory of school officials and risk group leaders who serve in institutional leadership roles across the nation. Included in the directory will be the members of the risk management committees of the Association of School Business Officials and its state affiliate chapters. In California, the executive director of the North Bay Insurance Group, Janet DeGracia, is past preside...
Jan 26, 2009 by Lee Gaby
A unanimous decision of the nation’s highest court clears the way for harassment and gender equity claims seeking monetary damages under Federal civil rights statutes to be pressed against school districts, without having to wait on the outcome of Title IX administrative remedies. In Fitzgerald v. Barnstable the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the lower courts. The plaintiffs in this case can now proceed to seek m...
Tagged: sexual harrassment, gender equity
