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EDUCATION EXPERT BLOG: EDUCATION LAW AND SCHOOL LIABILITY ISSUES

Child/Student Supervision, Education Expert, Personal Injury, School Negligence Lawsuit, School Transportation Injury, Special Education, Student Rights, Uncategorized, Wrongful Death
October 7, 2026

For schools, daycare centers, after-school programs, and camps, children with disabilities often present significant supervisory challenges and require a heightened level of care. If a special needs child is seriously hurt or killed at school because of failure to address their needs adequately, negligent supervision may be viewed as a...

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Child/Student Supervision, Education Expert, Personal Injury, School Liability Section 1983, School Management, School Negligence Lawsuit, School Safety & Security, School Transportation Injury, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Harassment, Student Rights, Student safety, Title IX, Uncategorized, Wrongful Death
January 23, 2026

School negligence cases involving teachers, coaches, camp counselors, bus drivers, and other personnel resulting in injury to a child are ever-present in the news. Negligence in schools that results in sexual abuse, death, and sports injury all present opportunities for costly negligence claims that may entail large settlements or grave...

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Education Expert, Gun Control, Personal Injury, School Gun Violence, School liability, School Management, School Negligence Lawsuit, School Safety & Security, School Shooting, School shooting prevention, School Shootings, School Violence, Standard of Professional Care, Student safety, Wrongful Death
March 10, 2023

Schools have a duty to protect students, faculty, and staff from harm arising from acts of violence, such as school shootings, when the harm is reasonably foreseeable. However, schools are not built like fortresses, nor should they be. It is not the latest security technology, metal detectors, or an indoor...

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Uncategorized
October 29, 2019

Physical and school sexual abuse of students in educational institutions has been a recognized and foreseeable risk and something that all schools, including boarding and prep schools, need to proactively guard against. Boarding schools are responsible for the supervision of students in dorms and outside of the classroom to prevent...

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Campus Sexual Assault, Child/Student Supervision, Education Expert, Governmental Immunity, Harassment, Harassment/Bullying, Injury of Special Education Students, Personal Injury, School Gun Violence, School Negligence Lawsuit, School Police Violence, School Safety & Security, School Violence, Standard of Professional Care, Student Rights, Uncategorized, Wrongful Death
September 12, 2018

Parents send their children to school expecting that their kids will be safe.  The parents trust that the school’s staff will act in their place and look out for their children’s welfare in the same way they would.  The presence of security guards, school police, or resource officers at the...

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