Education Law

School Law: Tips for Managing Controversial School Board Meetings

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1 hours 30 minutes
Joanne Butler
With Joanne L. Butler from Schenck Price Smith & King, LLP
Recorded May 30, 2024
Product ID 98637

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Overview

Get Up to Speed on Recent Case Studies and Legal Best Practices

From arguments over book bans to debates on critical race theory (CRT), school board meetings are quickly turning into heated battlegrounds. Do you know how to help preserve order and respond when things get out of control? Join our experienced attorney faculty as they reveal the legal essentials of safeguarding the rights of the public while simultaneously diffusing conflict during school board meetings. Register today!

  • Recall key laws influencing school board actions.
  • Discuss techniques for handling disruptive behavior during school board meetings.
  • Discover best practices for drafting and implementing new school board policies.

Abbreviated Agenda

  1. Overview: The Current Landscape
  2. Free Speech, the First Amendment, and Public Participation: Legal Essentials
  3. Applying the Open Meetings Act to School Board Meetings
  4. Dealing With Disruptive Behavior, Defamation, and Hate Speech: Legal Best Practices
  5. Legal Considerations for Board Decision-Making
  6. Best Practices for Creating School Board Policies (Including Curriculum Standards, Discipline Policies, etc.)
  7. Controversial School Board Meetings: Case Studies

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Credit Details

Credits Available
Credit Status Total
Alaska CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Arizona CLE Approved 1.5 Total
California CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Colorado CLE Approved 2 Total
Connecticut CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Delaware CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Hawaii CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Iowa CLE Upon Request 1.5 Total
Idaho CLE Upon Request 1.5 Total
Illinois CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Louisiana CLE Upon Request 1.5 Total
Maine CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Minnesota CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Missouri CLE Approved 1.8 Total
Northern Mariana Islands CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Montana CLE Approved 1.5 Total
North Dakota CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Nebraska CLE Approved 1.5 Total
New Hampshire CLE Approved 1.5 Total
New Mexico CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Nevada CLE Approved 1.5 Total
New York CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Oklahoma CLE Approved 2 Total
Oregon CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Pennsylvania CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Vermont CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Washington CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Wisconsin CLE Approved 1.5 Total
West Virginia CLE Approved 1.8 Total
Wyoming CLE Upon Request 1.5 Total
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  1. School Law: Tips for Managing Controversial School Board Meetings

    1. Overview: The Current Landscape
    2. Free Speech, the First Amendment, and Public Participation: Legal Essentials
    3. Applying the Open Meetings Act to School Board Meetings
    4. Dealing With Disruptive Behavior, Defamation, and Hate Speech: Legal Best Practices
    5. Legal Considerations for Board Decision-Making
    6. Best Practices for Creating School Board Policies (Including Curriculum Standards, Discipline Policies, etc.)
    7. Controversial School Board Meetings: Case Studies

Who Should Attend

This program is designed for attorneys. School administrators, teachers, principals, counselors, superintendents, board members, school psychologists, and paralegals may also benefit.

Speakers

Joanne L Butler
Joanne L.
Butler
Schenck Price Smith & King, LLP
Speaker bio
Joanne L Butler

Joanne L. Butler

Schenck Price Smith & King, LLP
Joanne Butler

is a partner in the law firm of Schenck Price Smith & King, LLP. Her law practice is primarily devoted to the areas of education and public employment law. Ms. Butler represents numerous boards of education as general or special counsel. In addition to providing her school district clients with counsel in the many components of school law and student, staff and board operations issues, she represents her clients in litigation matters including student residency, discipline, special education hearings, staff tenure proceedings, employment discrimination matters, grievance arbitrations, unfair practice proceedings, and bid/contracting disputes. Ms. Butler regularly appears before the Department of Education, Office of Administrative Law, Public Employees Relations Commission, Division on Civil Rights, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the various state and federal courts. She is a trustee of the New Jersey Association of School Attorneys and a member of the National Council of School Attorneys. Ms. Butler also is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association's School Law Committee and its Labor and Employment Law Section. She frequently lectures and provides in-service training on various education and employment issues. After attending Penn State University for two years, Ms. Butler graduated from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, summa cum laude. She attended the Columbus School of Law of the Catholic University of America. Ms. Butler served a judicial clerkship with the Honorable Clarkson S. Fisher, former Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

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