Legislation protecting Tennessee children passes
Excerpted from cannoncourier.com blog Tennessee House Speaker Beth Harwell (R-Nashville) today applauded the passage of five bills that help protect Tennessee school children from educator sexual misconduct. The bills were […]
Florida laws don’t stop private schools from hiring felons
Excerpted from orlandosentinel.com, by Annie Martin and Leslie Postal Shanqual Marshall-Gunn, banned from teaching in Florida public schools because of a Medicaid fraud conviction, was hired by a private school […]
MA state under pressure to expand background checks
Excerpted from gloucestertimes.com story by Christian M. Wade Workers at summer camps, preschools and day care centers that get federal grants may soon need to be fingerprinted and subjected to […]
OSU faculty express opinions about new background checks
Excerpted from and OCOLLY.com post by Stetson Payne Oklahoma State University’s new faculty background checks have some professors fearing the checks will disenfranchise qualified applicants and threaten academic freedom. The […]