Texas school to drug test 7th graders: ‘Great kids make bad decisions’
Excerpted from Newsweek By Jason Murdock Students of a Texas school district must drug tests before they can take part in certain extracurricular activities—including football, choir and chess. In a […]
KY – Background check law may receive revisions
Excerpted from a Lexington Herald-Leader story by Valerie Honeycutt Spears A new background check law that caused headaches for Kentucky school districts and businesses and an apparent additional 40,000 inquiries […]
PA – Top court could decide faculty background check question
Excerpted from a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story by Bill Schackner A legal dispute more than three years old between Pennsylvania’s state university system and its faculty union may come to a […]
Groups call background check policy for school visitors discriminatory
Excerpted from a Reno Gazette Journal story by Siobhan McAndrew Civil rights and immigrant community leaders sent a letter to Washoe County School District Superintendent Traci Davis condemning a plan […]