JOURNAL RECEIVES APPROVAL FROM NATIONAL SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION

Those of you who have read The Journal closely over the last year must have noticed that we rely on two excellent resources for our legal information: our ESSAA attorneys, of course, for Statewide updates on law and negotiations, and the National School Boards Association website, at www.nsba.org/legal clips, for more national legal coverage

NSBA’s Legal Briefs have proven to be an outstanding resource for monitoring the most recent lawsuits, court decisions, legal victories, and flops in the always curiouser, whacky and litigious world of American education. The NSBA, based in Arlington, Virginia, offers free subscriptions to its Legal Briefs – in fact, if you sign up with NSBA, you will receive bi-weekly eBlasts containing the same current information we receive at The Journal

In a recent communication between The Journal and the NSBA Staff Attorney, Thomas Hutton mentioned that he had looked at our ESSAA website and “noted that (ESSAA is) also in the business of trying to counter some of the frustrating political trends when it comes to public education.” NSBA’s attention, Mr. Sutton wrote us, is much the same as ours: to “... balance out some of the noise and undo the myths.” Attorney Hutton also recommends NSBA’s “daily blog,” BoardBuzz, to our members, and we think those of you who want to be the best informed on legal matters will welcome this opportunity to compare your situations here in New York State with others throughout the United States

The Journal thanks NSBA for its encouraging words, and for its permission to directly reprint the excellent articles it gleans from news sources throughout the country - with the sole addition being the use of our own titles which we will provide to capture what we think are the essentials of the stories that appear below them