Ethical Educator

How would you advise a school board that’s been offered big money and needed property from a company with dubious practices?

Is there an appropriate departing role for the outgoing superintendent when the board is conducting its search?

A case involving the livestreaming of varsity football and basketball games via Facebook and the toll it might take on booster club revenues.

The importance of distinguishing between what are legal conflicts and ethical conflicts, real or perceived. They often involve personnel matters.

The complication: The school board president's twin daughters are among those implicated a few weeks before their graduation ceremony.

How to deal with an embarrassed school employee who accidentally sends the superintendent an e-mail venting about colleagues and work conditions.

A dispute between a 9th grader and his English teacher who wants to “split the difference” over a paper either misplaced or never submitted.

Our panel analyzes the case of a furious school board member who campaigns publicly for a course transfer for his son, leading to mental anguish for the principal.

Appreciative parents of a special-needs child give an administrator a small amount of marijuana as a gift in a state where its use is legal. Would she be wrong to accept this token of thanks?

What to do about a principal who “inadvertently” spots a critical memo about her on the screen inside her supervisor’s vacant office?