Sep 20th, 2021Successful Construction Project Closeout
“The hardest part of the race comes at the end.” Whether your construction project was flawlessly executed or was a recurring source of frustration, when you approach project completion, you must finish the race to properly close out each contract. The proper close-out can be a trust and confidence issue reflective of how well the …
Sep 10th, 2021New OSHA Rule to Require Worker Vaccinations or Testing for Large Employers
Yesterday, President Biden announced that the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will develop and implement new emergency regulations that require private sector employers with 100 or more workers to ensure that those employees are either fully vaccinated or subject to COVID-19 testing at least once per week. OSHA will issue an Emergency Temporary …
Aug 31st, 2021School Year 2021-2022: Will Your School or BOCES Be Implementing Health Screenings?
When schools reopened for the 2020-2021 school year, it was clear that students, staff and visitors were required to undergo a daily health screening designed to determine if the individual was exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19, or may have been exposed to the novel coronavirus. As of the date of this publication, and unlike for last …
Aug 31st, 2021Reasonable Decorum: Not Too Much to Ask
Unfortunately, videos of school board meetings descending into shouting matches, or worse, are becoming increasingly common. While there may be no 100% effective way to prevent people from engaging in obnoxious or bullying behavior during board meetings, school districts have tools at their disposal to facilitate civility. While perhaps hard to define, the expectation that …
Jul 29th, 2021New School Health Examination Form Required for 2021-2022 School Year
As a result of changes to Section 136.3 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education, for any student physicals conducted on or after January 31, 2021, the student health certificate must now “be on a form prescribed by the commissioner.” This means that, beginning with the 2021-2022 school year, school districts may only accept …
Jul 29th, 2021Analyzing the Impact of Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L.: What the recent “Cheerleader Case” Decided by the Supreme Court Means for School Districts
In a previous update, we discussed a legal case that has been billed as the most important student speech case in more than half a century: Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L. More than fifty years ago, the United States Supreme Court famously declared that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of …
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