{"id":10717,"date":"2024-10-18T14:29:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T21:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/?p=10717"},"modified":"2024-10-18T14:29:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T21:29:52","slug":"school-personnel-conference-presentations-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/school-personnel-conference-presentations-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacifica Attorneys Present at State and National School Personnel Conferences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pacifica School Districts attorneys <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/attorneys\/sam-chalfant\/\">Sam Chalfant<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/attorneys\/carlos-chavez\/\">Carlos Chavez<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/attorneys\/curtis-m-leonard\/\">Curtis Leonard<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/attorneys\/sarah-mack\/\">Sarah Mack<\/a> presented in October at two annual conferences serving school personnel administrators. Their sessions covered important legal trends and considerations in the areas of special education and employee discipline. Below are details about these presentations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Washington State Personnel Association\/Washington Schools Risk Management Pool 2024 School Law Conference <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Carlos and Sarah presented on Oct. 14 at the 2024 School Law Conference hosted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/wspa.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington School Personnel Association<\/a> (WSPA) and the Washington Schools Risk Management Pool (WSRMP). The annual conference brings together Washington K-12 human resources personnel and other school administrators to learn about current legal issues affecting public schools and districts.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos\u2019s presentation, \u201cSpecial Ed: Unreasonable Decisions,\u201d examined recent cases whose outcomes present new challenges to schools and districts when working with students with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah\u2019s session, \u201cEmployee Discipline Meets Free Speech,\u201d discussed key considerations for school administrators as they balance the free speech rights of staff with their educational responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>American Association of School Personnel Administrators 86th Annual Conference<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 15, Sam Chalfant, Curtis Leonard, and Sarah Mack led an employee discipline workshop at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaspa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Association of School Personnel Administrators<\/a> (AASPA) Annual Conference in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>The AASPA is a national organization whose membership includes personnel and human resources administrators, superintendents, principals, and others working in educational administration.<\/p>\n<p>Curtis, Sam, and Sarah\u2019s presentation, \u201cNavigating Employee Discipline: Legal Considerations in a Complex Landscape,\u201d covered different facets of managing employee behavior while mitigating legal risk, including collective bargaining, free speech, and disability.<\/p>\n<p>For questions regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/practice-areas\/school-districts\/special-education\/\">special education<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/practice-areas\/school-districts\/labor-and-employment\/\">employee discipline<\/a> matters, or for more information about Pacifica\u2019s comprehensive school law practice, please reach out to any member of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/practice-areas\/school-districts\/\">School Districts<\/a> team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pacifica School Districts attorneys Sam Chalfant, Carlos Chavez, Curtis Leonard, and Sarah Mack presented in October at two annual conferences&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-attorneys","category-news","category-school-districts"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/school-districts-featured.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}