Issues related to public school employment and students sometimes must be resolved above the campus or district levels. Some cases go to the Texas commissioner of education or State Board for Educator Certification; others are decided by the courts. TCTA reports on cases of interest in our emailed eUpdate newsletter. You'll also find those reports below.
Using school district email for personal communications
Sep 14, 2015
You are sitting at your desk during planning time and get an email from a college friend, inviting you to a baby shower that weekend. You hit “reply…
Information: Public Or Private?
May 11, 2011
School districts expect you to know the rules on accessing and using district and student information, and you should expect the same from your…
Asked to work over your summer break?
Dec 10, 2010
Can I be required to work in the summer? What if I refuse? Can I be fired? Can the district just add days to my contract?
Counselors making the right call
Dec 10, 2010
School counselors and other Texas educators are routinely confronted with issues involving the confidentiality of student records and related…
Supreme Court rules that students grading papers OK
Dec 10, 2010
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that students grading the papers of other students and even calling out the scores is not a violation of the Family…
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