How to balance requests for temporary leave with your school’s financial needs.
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Whatever our personal feelings about the presidential election, we in the independent school community can unite in a shared understanding of the potential impact on independent schools.
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Key Technology
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Risk Management
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Technology
Texting is where students live. For staff-student communications, schools must develop policies that balance safety with reality.
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Labor Law
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Policy
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Risk Management
Are your policies and procedures keeping up with new risks and laws?
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Accounting
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Risk Management
Why using COSO’s time-tested framework for internal controls may be in your school’s best interest
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Key Strategic Finance
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Planning
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Risk Management
A dashboard tells you where you have been. A “heat map” reveals your progress toward your destination.
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Risk Management
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Technology
Ransomware is one of the next big threats to school data. “The bad guys are smart but lazy. If I had a choice to go after a school or a bank, I’d go after schools that are woefully unprepared for the skills I bring.”
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Crisis Management
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Procedures
Amid mounting high-profile media scrutiny, independent schools embrace best practices in crisis management and communications. “When a school does the right thing, its community feels proud.”
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Compliance
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Employee Benefits
Confusion persists over changes to the FLSA overtime exemption charges. Teachers are exempt, but schools could see their employment costs grow for many other staff.
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Contract
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Risk Management
Proven strategies and best practices to minimize potential revenue losses involving construction projects, tuition payments or third-party vendors.
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Safety and Security
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Trips
Rising anxieties over international travel programs have schools stepping up due diligence, buttoning up procedures. “The reality is, there but for the grace of God goes any school.”
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Projections
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Crisis Management
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Safety and Security
Independent schools must be resolute in providing the safest of havens where those wishing to do harm are quickly identified and weeded out.
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CEO Notebook
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Leadership
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Risk Management
After last week's heartbreaking shootings in Orlando, it's comforting to be spending this week among what I consider to be the best kind of professional company: independent school business officers and business office s
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Yes, your school is subject to OSHA regulations. And “common sense” precautions may not be legally compliant.
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Last month, more than 20 of your peers and colleagues spent 90 minutes asking one question after another of Grace Lee, NBOA Vice President Legal Affairs. The following week, some 360 schools participated in an NBOA webin
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Food Service
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Risk Management
How are independent schools handling allergens in their dining operations to prevent tragedies, abide by the law and serve food that is both healthy and affordable?
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Compliance
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Employee Benefits
From coaching staff, to long-term subs, answers to business officers’ most vexing questions about the Affordable Care Act.
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Risk Management
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Safety and Security
Schools get serious about establishing, documenting and following procedures to curb sexual abuse involving faculty and staff. “It takes a community to keep kids safe.”
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Each year we have a unique opportunity to recognize two colleagues who reflect our highest professional standards and our community's aspirations for excellence within independent school business and financial operations
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Risk Management
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Termination
Whether voluntary or not, faculty and staff departures are both inevitable and potentially fraught. Here’s how to get them right.
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