Top Resources
- School Board Candidate Election Filing Procedures
- FAQ: SEA 287-2025 and SEA 25-2026
- Summary of HEA 1002-2025
- FAQ: Absenteeism & Truancy in Indiana Schools
- Guide: Mandatory School Website Postings
- FAQ: Understanding Indiana's Open Door Law
- FAQ: Employee Dismissal
- Checklist: Permissible Topics for School Board Executive Sessions
- FAQ: Teacher Adjuncts
- Recent Legal Decisions
Parental Rights
- Mahmoud v. Taylor: A lesson in understanding parents' right to direct the religious instruction of their children by Lisa Tanselle, The Journal, Fall 2025
- Implications of Indiana's new parental rights law for public education by Lisa Tanselle, The Journal, Summer 2025
Employees and Employment
- SEA 366 addresses superintendent qualifications, contracts by Julie Slavens, November 2025
- Changes to the staff performance evaluation law by Lisa Tanselle, June 2025
- Understanding Indiana's laws related to the employment of school personnel by Lisa Tanselle, Spring 2025
- Hiring new teachers using the regular teacher contract by Lisa Tanselle, August 2024
- Indiana laws on superintendent contracts by Lisa Tanselle, Spring 2024
- Changes to the teacher termination process by Lisa Tanselle, November 2023
- Hiring employees who have ongoing contact with children by Lisa Tanselle, May 2023
- Procedures and deadlines for non-renewal of administrative contracts by Julie Slavens, November 2022
- State laws on hiring school employees by Lisa Tanselle, May 2022
- Superintendent and other administrator contracts by Lisa Tanselle, May 2020
Access to Public Records
- School security camera footage by Lisa Tanselle, September 2023
- Disclosure of employee discipline by Julie Slavens, February 2022
- Disclosure of information concerning threats to school safety by Julie Slavens, August 2019
- Video recordings of students by Lisa Tanselle, Spring 2019
Meetings & Open Door Law
- Understanding the rules for remote participation in board meetings by Lisa Tanselle, February 2026
- School board voting requirements under Indiana law by Lisa Tanselle, November 2025
- Board authority and the legal exercise of that authority by Lisa Tanselle, Winter 2025
- School governance in real time: Livestreaming by Lisa Tanselle, February 2025
- Exception carved out for school board committees by Lisa Tanselle, June 2024
- Executive session reminders by Lisa Tanselle, February 2023
- Virtual participation in school board meetings by Julie Slavens, March 2022
- School board committees by Lisa Tanselle, February 2022
- Basic principles of school board meetings by Lisa Tanselle, Winter 2019
School Buildings
- Indiana updates Dollar Law: New school building closure requirements now in effect by Lisa Tanselle, March 2026
- Changes to laws on school buildings by Lisa Tanselle, The Journal, Summer 2024
- Legislative changes to the $1 building law by Lisa Tanselle, The Journal, Summer 2023
School Board Elections
- Ballot order changed for school board elections by Bre'Anna Donaldson, March 2026
- Preparing for newly elected board members by Lisa Tanselle, November 2024
- Oath of office can be taken prior to January by Lisa Tanselle, November 2022
- Reapportioning school board district boundaries by Lisa Tanselle, September 2021
- School board elections: Be sure you reside in the right district by Lisa Tanselle, June 2020
- Residency requirements for school board members by Lisa Tanselle, April 2020
Other Legal Guidance
- School board organization plans by Lisa Tanselle, The Journal, Winter 2026
- Special education procedural safeguards by Bre'Anna Donaldson, e-Dition, September 2024
- Campaigning on school grounds by Bre'Anna Donaldson, e-Dition, March 2024
- Absenteeism, truancy, and Indiana's compulsory attendance laws by Lisa Tanselle, The Journal, Winter 2024
- Accommodating employees' religious beliefs by Lisa Tanselle, e-Dition, August 2023
- Ensuring equal athletic opportunities for students by Lisa Tanselle, The Journal, Spring 2023
- Changes to the law on discussion by Lisa Tanselle, e-Dition, June 2023
- Emergency action plans for sudden cardiac arrest and AEDs by Julie Slavens, e-Dition, June 2023
- School resource officer laws by Lisa Tanselle, e-Dition, June 2022
- Adjunct teacher permits by Julie Slavens, e-Dition, May 2022
- Deducting union dues for teachers by Lisa Tanselle, e-Dition, June 2021
- Sudden cardiac arrest and student athletes by Julie Slavens, e-Dition, June 2021
- Temporary teacher contracts by Lisa Tanselle, e-Dition, May 2021
- Contracts for services -- purchasing procedures by Julie Slavens, e-Dition, February 2021
- Board member conflict of interest, criminally speaking by Lisa Tanselle, e-Dition, September 2020
- Verification of residency of students by Julie Slavens, e-Dition, September 2020
- Appropriate use of email by school board members by Lisa Tanselle, e-Dition, January 2020
- Holiday celebrations by Lisa Tanselle, e-Dition, November 2019
- Can a school board member be removed from office? by Lisa Tanselle, The Journal, Summer 2019
- Enrollment issues related to nonresident students by Lisa Tanselle, e-Dition, May 2019
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