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CSBA Legal Guidances and Alerts

• Legal Guidance: Guide to Reporting Gifts, Honoraria and Travel Payments (8/2024)
• Recently asked questions: Parental and student rights in relation to transgender and gender nonconforming students (8/23/23)
• Legal Guidance on Rights of Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students in Schools (10/27/2022)
• Legal Alert: Responding to California Public Records Act Requests (09/2019)
• Legal Guidance: Board Communications in a Post-Janus World (6/29/18)
• Analyzing the aftermath of Janus v. AFSCME (6/27/18)
• Update: Preparing for a decision on Janus (6/2018)
• Important Update-- Early Implications of Janus: Payroll and Communications with Public Employee Unions (5/2018)
• Legal Alert: Tips for Governing Boards in Response to Public Records Act Ruling on Electronic Communications (03/2017)
• Legal Alert: Expansion of Public Records Disclosure to Private Account Communications (03/2017)
• Legal Guidance: Providing All Children Equal Access to Education, Regardless of Immigration Status (02/2017)
• CSBA Sample Board Resolution: Providing All Children Equal Access to Education, Regardless of Immigration Status (02/2017)
• Legal Alert: The Impact of Senate Bill 415 on School Board Elections (01/2017)
• Important Update: Developer Fees (8/4/2016)
• Appeals court reverses ruling in Vergara v. California (04/14/2016)
• Legal Guidance: Lease-leasebacks in Light of Davis v. Fresno USD & AB 566 (3/2016)
• Important Update: Court denies CDE request for stay in student privacy case but amends protocol (2/29/2016)
• Important Update: Disclosure of Student Information  (2/18/2016)
• Legal Guidance: Grade Span Adjustment Requirements
• Legal Guidance: International Student Exchange Placement Organizations
• Filling a Board Vacancy (10/17/2022)

CSBA Publications

• California's Challenge: Adequately Funding Education in the 21st Century
• The Brown Act
• Call To Order: A Blueprint for Great Board Meetings
• Charter Schools Manual: A Manual for Governance Teams
  

CSBA Webcasts and Webinars

• July 15, 2020 - Legal webinar Reopening reclosing public schools during the COVID 19 pandemic – Part 1 
• July 29, 2020 - Legal webinar Reopening reclosing public schools during the COVID 19 pandemic – Part 2
  
  
  

• Archived Webcasts and Webinars