Excerpted from a KATU-2 TV story by Joe Douglass At public schools, teachers and other staff members must undergo criminal background checks. But that’s not the case for private schools and academies in Oregon. After a piano teacher was...
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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 to the Cabinet for Health and...
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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 to background check all parents visiting...
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Excerpted from a Shelbyville Times-Gazette story by Dawn Hankins If you’re a parent worrying about a sexual predator teaching your child, a new state law requiring that all school employees undergo background checks every five years, might...
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Excerpted from an Associated Press news story A review of Chicago Public Schools’ background checks prompted by a newspaper investigation has resulted in nearly 130 school district employees being terminated, recommended for dismissal or...
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Excerpted from a WNEP-ABC story by Dave Bohman Classes in the Crestwood School District in Pennsylvania were canceled last week. The district was forced to cancel classes after learning bus drivers had incomplete background checks. The state...
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Legislation mandating criminal background checks and providing assistance to schools and youth organizations has been a popular topic in 2018. In GroupOne’s opinion, there should always be a mandatory policy of investigating the criminal history...
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A whopping total of 266 employees of the Chicago Public School (CPS) District will require additional screening after they were “flagged” following background checks conducted this summer. That means that while they’re not playing...
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Excerpted from a Idaho State Journal story Idaho parents likely have an assumption that when their children join a high school sports team, the people doing the coaching are not convicted felons. But because of a variety of flaws in how the state...
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Excerpted from a News 13 WLOS story by Jennifer Emert While parents in Asheville, North Carolina might assume teachers go through rigorous background checks, a News 13 investigation uncovers that’s not necessarily the case. The State Department...
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Excerpted from The Atlantic story by Alia Wong The nonprofit organization behind the Common Application, a single form that students can fill out to apply to any college that uses it, announced this week that, starting next year, it will no...
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Excerpted from a Lexington Herald-Leader story by Valarie Honeycutt Spears A Kentucky law with “good intentions” is causing serious problems for school districts around the state, just as teachers and staff prepare for the beginning of the school...
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