Countdown to the Bond is a multi-part series of advisories designed to help school and community college districts navigate their way to a successful November 2018 bond election and capital program, beginning about a year ahead.
DWK offers answers and some initial insights on FAQ’s regarding student protest and walkouts to help CA Districts address important supervision, safety and First Amendment issues.
The New Year brings with it a host of new and amended laws that will affect school bonds and bond elections. Many of these revisions took effect on January 1, 2018, and some will change the way districts plan to incur debt, hold elections, and report debt activities to the public.
Before the end of June 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide on the highly anticipated case of Janus v. AFSCME, whether mandatory agency fees paid to public-sector unions by non-union members violate their First Amendment rights. Here are DWK Responses to some Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ’s).
For charter authorizers, these consortia sessions are interactive roundtable-style discussions of critical issues, and provide all participants with a chance to share their own dilemmas, challenges, frustrations and successes with their local colleagues, while getting legal answers to pressing questions about charter schools.
