CAS Legal Mailbag Question of the Week – 9/25/19
Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter. Written by attorney Thomas B. Mooney. Dear Legal Mailbag: Local elections are coming up and a teacher in my school came to me with an interesting...
View ArticleSEE YOU IN COURT! – October 2019
Patty Parent, a single mother, came to the office at Acorn Elementary School at the beginning of the school year, asking that the office change the address for her two children. However, when she gave...
View ArticleCAS Legal Mailbag Question of the Week- 10/2/19
Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter. Written by attorney Thomas B. Mooney. Dear Legal Mailbag: I read with interest your answer last week to Silence is Golden, but I was left curious as...
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CAS Legal Mailbag Question of the Week-10/9/19
Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter. Written by attorney Thomas B. Mooney. Dear Legal Mailbag: All this talk about student rights has me confused. As a faithful reader of Legal Mailbag, I...
View ArticleCAS Legal Mailbag Question of the Week-10/16/19
Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter. Written by attorney Thomas B. Mooney. Dear Legal Mailbag: As is the case with a number of school districts in my part of the state, our enrollment is...
View ArticleCAS Legal Mailbag Question of the Week-10/30/19
Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter. Written by attorney Thomas B. Mooney. Dear Legal Mailbag: I am a school administrator, and some students in my district have found that the bus is a...
View ArticleSEE YOU IN COURT! – November 2019
Tom Teacher has long been employed by the Nutmeg Board of Education. He has been a pain in the neck in recent years, complaining whenever he can about the “low salaries and lower respect” that he...
View ArticleShipman & Goodwin Attorneys Presenting at the 2019 CABE/CAPSS Convention
School law attorneys Thomas B. Mooney, Richard A. Mills, and Andreana R. Bellach will present sessions at the 2019 Connecticut Association of Boards of Education (CABE)/Connecticut Association of...
View ArticleCAS Legal Mailbag Question of the Week – 11/6/2019
Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter. Written by attorney Thomas B. Mooney. Dear Legal Mailbag: I am an inveterate note-taker, whatever the meeting. Indeed, I have a bound notebook that I...
View ArticleCAS Legal Mailbag Question of the Week – 11/20/2019
Dear Legal Mailbag: I was appointed this fall to serve as an assistant principal at a new school. Each school has its customs and traditions, and my new school is no exception. I was particularly...
View ArticleSEE YOU IN COURT! – December 2019
Last year, the holiday season was awash in controversy for the Nutmeg Public Schools after the principal of Acorn Elementary School came to school dressed as Santa Claus and passed out presents to...
View ArticleCAS Legal Mailbag Question of the Week – 12/4/2019
Dear Legal Mailbag: A parent just left my office, and my head is spinning. He claims to be super religious, and he expressed concern about the middle school curriculum. He explained that parents, not...
View ArticleCAS Legal Mailbag Question of the Week – 12/11/2019
Dear Legal Mailbag: As you know, vaping in schools has become a big problem, and we administrators struggle to put a stop to it. Recently, students at our school have been going into a dark stairwell...
View ArticleSEE YOU IN COURT! – January 2020
The Nutmeg Board of Education provides for public comment at the beginning of its regular meetings. The Board permits members of the public to address the Board for three minutes or less, but the Board...
View ArticleNew DCF Policy Facilitates Online Reporting and Creates New Unit for School...
The Department of Children and Families (DCF) adopted new procedures last month that will make life easier for some mandated reporters. DCF Policy 22-1-3, Mandated Reporter’s Failure to Report, has...
View ArticleCAS Legal Mailbag Question of the Week – 1/8/2020
Dear Legal Mailbag: As a sixth grade teacher, I get nervous every time I read in the paper about teachers and administrators being arrested for failing to report allegations of neglect or abuse. I know...
View ArticleCAS Legal Mailbag Question of the Week – 1/15/2020
Dear Legal Mailbag: Teaching Civics or anything remotely connected to how our government functions (or doesn’t function) has become a contact sport for teachers and administrators. It seems that no...
View ArticleCAS Legal Mailbag Question of the Week – 1/22/2020
Dear Legal Mailbag: Under our teacher contract, requests for leave come first to me as the building principal, and then they go to the assistant superintendent with my recommendation. Yesterday, I got...
View ArticleCAS Legal Mailbag Question of the Week – 1/29/2020
Dear Legal Mailbag: I am an avid reader of Legal Mailbag, and your advice has been helpful as I do my job as a principal. For example, I always thought that the First Amendment guaranteed teachers free...
View ArticleSEE YOU IN COURT! – February 2020
Nellie Newbie was excited to be a newly-elected member of the Nutmeg Board of Education, but she admits that she has a lot to learn. Nellie thought that she would be able to ease into her...
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