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Understanding Your School’s Property Schedule

Your property schedule is one of the most important—and often overlooked—documents in your insurance program. While it may look like a simple list of buildings, values, and locations, this schedule plays a critical role in how your coverage responds when a loss occurs.

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Winter Weather Preparedness: Keeping School Operations Safe and Moving

Winter weather events are becoming less predictable, even in regions that don’t traditionally experience prolonged cold, ice, or snow. Sudden freezes, icy roadways, power disruptions, and rapidly changing forecasts can create significant challenges for school districts — often with little time to respond.

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FERPA and Data Privacy Risks: What Schools Should Know

FERPA—the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act—is a federal law that protects the privacy of student education records. However, as schools collect and store more sensitive data, FERPA and data privacy risks are also evolving.

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Visitor Check-In and Access Control Best Practices

Visitor check-in and access control best practices are essential for ensuring campus safety. With increasing security concerns in schools, implementing visitor check-in and access control best practices helps minimize unauthorized access, protect students and staff, and ensure a safe learning environment.

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Facility Rental: Best Practices for Non-School Use

As community hubs, school districts often open their doors to outside organizations for events, activities, and gatherings. This facility rental for non-school use can benefit the community, but it also comes with potential risks.

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CPR and AED Training for School Staff: A Life-Saving Back-to-School Priority

As students return to campus, it’s important for school administrators to assess more than just academics and operations. One critical area that deserves attention is CPR and AED training for school staff. Ensuring your employees are prepared to respond to cardiac emergencies can save lives—and now is the perfect time to make it a priority.

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Protecting Your Network: Essential Data Backup Strategies for Schools

Protecting your network begins with implementing effective data backup strategies for schools. As schools become increasingly reliant on digital systems for everything from student records to internal communications, having strong data backup strategies for schools in place is essential to avoid costly downtime, loss of sensitive information, and disruptions to learning.

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Smart Summer Maintenance Strategies for School Facilities

As temperatures rise, summer facility maintenance becomes a top priority for school districts and campus managers. Taking proactive steps during the summer months protects infrastructure and ensures a safe, efficient environment for students and staff returning in the fall.

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Cyberbullying: Prevention and Response

As technology becomes more embedded in students' daily lives, cyberbullying continues to be a growing threat to student mental health and school safety.

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Improving School Parking Lot Safety

School parking lots are one of the busiest and most high-risk areas on campus. With students, staff, parents, and buses all navigating the same space, the potential for accidents increases.

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Understanding Workers’ Compensation in Educational Institutions

Workers’ compensation is a vital component of employee benefits for educational institutions. It provides coverage for workplace injuries or illnesses, ensuring that employees receive the medical care and support they need while protecting schools from costly lawsuits.

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