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June 01, 2025

Appears in June 2025: School Administrator

Ethical Educator

Scenario: A superintendent running a school district with a mostly Democratic school board in a Red state is asked to sign on to a lawsuit being waged by a prominent national advocacy group against a presidential executive order, knowing that he and the district could be targeted by right-wing opponents and could open the district to retaliation from political leaders at state and federal levels. Should the superintendent approach the school board to ask it to sign on to the suit, knowing board members will want his recommendation and that the board will designate him as the spokesperson on the matter? Illustration of lady justice holding scales reading

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The Ethical Educator panel consists of

Sheldon H. Berman, author of Implementing Social-Emotional Learning: Insights from School Districts鈥� Successes and Setbacks.
Susan Enfield, superintendent-in-residence, ILO Group, Normandy Park, Wash.
Baron Davis, CEO and founder, The Neogenesis Group, Columbia, S.C.; and
Maria G. Ott, Irving R. and Virginia A. Melbo chair in education administration, University of Southern California.

Each month, School Administrator draws on actual circumstances to raise an ethical decision-making dilemma in K-12 education. Our distinguished panelists provide their own resolutions to each dilemma.

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