OR – Private schools not required to background check staff
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
TN – School staffs must undergo five-year background checks
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 […]