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CAS Legal Mailbag – 1/22/26
Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter
Dear Legal Mailbag:
With all the recent hullabaloo with various federal law enforcement organizations possibly carrying out activities
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CAS Legal Mailbag – 1/15/2026
Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter
Dear Legal Mailbag:
I am a high school principal, and last week I had a contentious meeting with
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CAS Legal Mailbag – 1/8/26
Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter
Guest Columnists: Dori Pagé Antonetti and Jessica Richman Smith
Dear Legal Mailbag,
I am an assistant principal at
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See You In Court – January 2026
Bob Bombast, veteran member of the Nutmeg Board of Education, woke from a deep sleep and realized that he and his fellow Board members were
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CAS Legal Mailbag – 12/18/25
Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter
Dear Legal Mailbag:
While I applaud the interest Legal Mailbag expressed last week in showing elementary administrators more
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CAS Legal Mailbag – 12/11/25
Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter
Dear Legal Mailbag,
I am the principal of an elementary school and a loyal reader of your weekly
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CAS Legal Mailbag – 12/4/25
Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter
Dear Legal Mailbag:
As an assistant principal in a large middle school, I have to search students from
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CAS Legal Mailbag – 11/20/25
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Dear Legal Mailbag:
As is happening all over right now, students have been making “darts,” which are “Post-it”®
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See You In Court – December 2025
Bob Bombast, veteran member of the Nutmeg Board of Education, was surprised to read on social media the complaint of Tom Teacher, a popular teacher
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CAS Legal Mailbag – 11/13/25
Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter
Dear Legal Mailbag:
I have a question regarding teachers’ rights in a PPT. More specifically, what they are
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CAS Legal Mailbag – 11/6/25
Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter
Dear Legal Mailbag:
As principal of a middle school, I was surprised when two students complained to me
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