Leading Schools Legally: The ABC's of School Law: Indiana Supplement

Leading Schools Legally: The ABCs of School Law- Indiana Supplement is written in a state-specific format and serves as a quick reference guide for school administrators to consult when facing various legal issues surrounding the education environment in Indiana. It focuses on critical legal topics of concern to secondary school boards, administrators, faculty, and the various constituencies that interact with schools on a legal basis. Written to be paired with Leading Schools Legally: A Practical Anthology of School Law, this supplement organizes the information in a categorical and alphabetical format to address the following topics: ¿ Article 1 - Building projects, borrowing, budgeting and bargaining ¿ Article II - The ABCs of school law: ¿ Attendance ¿ Boards of education ¿ Child abuse reporting ¿ collective bargaining ¿ Discipline ¿ Employee evaluation ¿ Field trips ¿ Freedom of religion ¿ Gangs and gang activity ¿ Home schooling ¿ Internet usage ¿ Legal settlement ¿ Medical and medicines ¿ Negligences ¿ Procedural due process ¿ Search and seizure ¿ Teacher dismissal ¿ Tenure ¿ Vaccinations ¿ Waivers ¿ Withdrawal

Jeffery J. Qualkinbush Jeffery J. Qualkinbush is a partner in Barnes & Thornburg LLP's Indianapolis office and concentrates his practice in the area of municipal finance with particular emphasis in tax-exempt lease-financings by local school corporations and other government entities. Mr. Qualkinbush is a member of various groups including the Indiana Association of School Business Officials, the Indiana Association of Public School Superintendents, and the Indiana School Boards Association. Throughout his career, he has spoken extensively on various municipal finance and school finance issues, including Indiana's petition-remonstrance and objection processes. Mr. Qualkinbush received his Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 1991. He earned a B.A. degree magna cum laude and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, in 1988. Bruce D. Donaldson Bruce D. Donaldson is a partner in Barnes & Thornburg LLP's Indianapolis office and concentrates his practice in the area of municipal finance. He has served as bond counsel for virtually every type of local public project, with a particular emphasis on local economic development through the use of creative financing vehicles such as tax increment finance and local economic development income tax bonds. Mr. Donaldson received his J.D. summa cum laude from the Indiana University School of LawûBloomington, where he graduated first in his class and served as articles editor of the Indiana Law Journal. Prior to that, in 1981, he earned a B.A. in economics from DePauw University where he was a Malpus Scholar, played on the varsity golf team, and was president of Phi Delta Theta fraternity.