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Issues Regarding Administrative Leave

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Administrative leave is the useful tool that accomplishes the employee’s removal, pending an investigation. As long as the employee continues to receive pay and benefits, the employee does not have an immediate legal claim.

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Handling an Investigation on Your Campus

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As if being a campus principal is not hard enough, there will be circumstances where you must conduct a campus investigation.

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Student Free Speech and Student Discipline

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Until the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2021 decision in Mahanoy Area Sch. Dist. v. B.L., the high court had only written four decisions that directly confronted student free speech in PreK-12 public schools.

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10 Ways to Minimize Your Liability

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Being a campus administrator is a difficult job with a lot of responsibilities. The more responsibilities you have, and the more people you supervise, the more chances there are for things to go wrong.

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Coping with Conflict and Complaints: Tips for Handling Grievances and Rogue Complaints

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If there are going to be complaints about you or your campus—and there probably will be—it is preferable the complaining party put it in writing.

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Responding to a Bad T-PESS Evaluation

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Writing a response is a time-honored, professional activity that is almost always recommended following a bad evaluation. Despite the absence of an express rule, your supervisor would look foolish rejecting a timely submitted, professional response to the evaluation.

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