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Lunch & Learn Webinars 

Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 12:00 p.m. Eastern

In partnership with the Association of School Business Officials International

How School Attorneys and SBOs Can Partner to Support Students and Mitigate Legal and Financial Risk in the Current Climate

Federal funding streams for public education face mounting uncertainty, putting pressure on district budgets, compliance obligations, and the ability to meet student needs. As school districts and states face the risk of federal funding withdrawal in the wake of program reviews or civil rights investigations, it’s important for school leaders to be able to accurately assess risk and plan for any likely shortfall in federal funding. This joint webinar, designed for both school business officials and school attorneys, will provide:

• an up-to-date briefing on the current status of federal funding removal activity in public schools and pending legal challenges to recent executive actions;
• strategies for identifying and prioritizing areas of financial and legal risk when funding is at stake; and
• a collaborative framework for attorneys and business leaders to develop practices that safeguard budgets, limit liability, and maintain student services.

Attendees will leave with practical tools and a shared approach to navigate funding volatility while protecting their districts’ fiscal health and mission.

Moderator: Sonja H. Trainor, Executive Director, National School Attorneys Association, Washington, DC

Speakers: Karen W. Smith, Chief Financial Officer, and Marney Collins Sims, General Counsel, Cypress-Fairbanks, ISD, Cypress, TX

NSAA members may attend for no charge. Register here.

Wednesday, December 3, 12:00 p.m. Eastern

Take a Breath: Ethics Tips from a Toddler Parent

Just like new parents, school law attorneys have been through it over the past year+. Waiting for change, processing change, and then responding to change at the federal, state, and local levels can cause (and has caused!) significant distress for attorneys professionally and personally. Adjusting to so much change all at once is a challenge. In this one-hour ethics session, attendees will consider how some of life’s lessons outside of the law – such as parenting a toddler – transfer to our duties to serve our clients with diligence and competence (even if they refuse to follow our advice and eat their vegetables).

Presenter: Carmen Bloom, Pennsylvania School Boards Association, Mechanicsburg, PA

Registration is required and available at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/ybHn4xfsT9GhJCdGs7O0aQ

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