Oregon has minimal rules about background checks for people working with children By Amy Hsuan The Oregonian In Oregon, school districts need only a $5 criminal background check to hire non ...

A school district in Alabama is requiring that all visitors who come to school during the day — including parents and grandparents — must pass a background check and pay $15 to get it.

Upper Dublin School District officials were caught off-guard last week when a return assembly speaker turned out to become a source of embarrassment. Jason C. Jean, a 42-year-old Central Pennsylvan… ...

Matteson School District 159 hired a middle school principal who had been investigated for sexual misconduct at his previous job without speaking to his references or receiving the results of a ...

Polk County Public Schools has subsidized the cost of the background checks since the adoption of the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act in 2018.

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - School districts in Kansas have been urged to do background checks of all school employees after a recent report found most may lack a recent one. Kansas Attorney General ...

An estimated 31 percent of Kansas School District employees who provide Medicaid-related services to students do not have background investigations on file.

A new Florida law is now in effect, mandating that school volunteers pass enhanced background checks to ensure the safety and security of students. The bill, signed into law during the 2023 state ...