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Tax-Exempt Status for Your Organization, 2022
Report ● May 10, 2022
The IRS requires that nonprofit organizations meet specific standards and procedures to maintain their 501c3 statuses. As a private-independent school, you must adhere to those regulations. Revised in January 2022, the updated guidelines in this report provide all the information you need. ...
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Teacher Turnover: Why It Matters and What We Can Do About It
Report ● May 10, 2022
Teacher attrition and turnover takes a toll on schools and students. Schools often respond by hiring inexperienced or unqualified teachers, increasing class sizes, or cutting class offerings, all of which impact student learning. Although this report focuses on public schools, many of the elements d...
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STOP SV: A Technical Package to Prevent Sexual Violence
Report ● May 10, 2022
This technical package represents a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to help communities and states sharpen their focus on prevention activities with the greatest potential to reduce sexual violence (SV) and its consequences. These strategies focus on promoting social norms that protect against violence; teaching skills to prevent SV; providing opportunities, both economic and social, to empower and support girls and women; creating protective environments; and supporting victims/survivors to lessen harm. The strategies represented in this package include those with a focus on preventing SV from happening in the first place as well as approaches to lessen the immediate and long-term harms of SV.
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The Handbook for Campus Safety and Security Reporting
Report ● May 10, 2022
Developed by the U.S. Department of Education for postsecondary institutions, much of the information in these guidelines are applicable in private-independent schools and their campuses. You can tailor many of your policies and procedures based on the handbook's reporting recommendations on discipl...
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