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CAS Legal Mailbag – 1/9/25

By Thomas B. Mooney on January 9, 2025

Posted in Board of Education, Generally, Public Schools

Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter

Dear Legal Mailbag:

As the principal of an elementary school, I must deal with many different situations. Sometimes…

See You In Court – January 2025

By Thomas B. Mooney on January 2, 2025

Posted in Board of Education, Generally, Board Organization, Authority and Responsibilities, CABE Journal Columns, Featured, Most Recent Columns, Public Schools

Bob Bombast, veteran member of the Nutmeg Board of Education, has been frustrated by the perennial need to reduce the Board’s budget request before submitting…

CAS Legal Mailbag – 12/19/24

By Thomas B. Mooney on January 2, 2025

Posted in Board of Education, Generally, Board Organization, Authority and Responsibilities, Public Schools, Special Education

Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter

Dear Legal Mailbag,

I am a superintendent of a PreK-12 public school district here in Connecticut, and I…

CAS Legal Mailbag – 12/12/24

By Thomas B. Mooney on December 12, 2024

Posted in Board of Education, Generally, Board Organization, Authority and Responsibilities, Freedom of Speech, Public Schools, Religion and the Schools

Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter

Dear Legal Mailbag:

Now that Thanksgiving is over, some of us are decorating for Christmas. That is normally fine…

See You In Court – December 2024

By Thomas B. Mooney on December 5, 2024

Posted in Board of Education, Generally, Board Organization, Authority and Responsibilities, Public Schools

Last May, the members of the Nutmeg Board of Education voted to extend Mr. Superintendent’s contract for one year, with the result that his contract…

CAS Legal Mailbag – 11/21/24

By Thomas B. Mooney on November 22, 2024

Posted in Board Organization, Authority and Responsibilities, Public Schools

Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter

Dear Legal Mailbag:

As the principal of a middle school, I find myself in the doghouse with my…

CAS Legal Mailbag – 11/14/24

By Thomas B. Mooney on November 14, 2024

Posted in Board of Education, Generally, Board Organization, Authority and Responsibilities, Public Schools

Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter

Dear Legal Mailbag:

The father of one of the students in my school is a pain in my…

CAS Legal Mailbag – 11/7/24

By Thomas B. Mooney on November 7, 2024

Posted in Board Organization, Authority and Responsibilities, Public Schools

Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter

Dear Legal Mailbag;

We have a new security guard at my school this year, and he is causing…

CAS Legal Mailbag – 10/31/24

By Thomas B. Mooney on October 31, 2024

Posted in Board of Education, Generally, Public Schools

Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter

Dear Legal Mailbag:

Given that it is Halloween, I have a scary story to tell. A student recently…

CAS Legal Mailbag – 10/24/24

By Thomas B. Mooney on October 29, 2024

Posted in Board of Education, Generally, Board Organization, Authority and Responsibilities, Public Schools

Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter

Dear Legal Mailbag:

Since the beginning of this school year, I have been pulled back and forth by…

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