Awareness of legal considerations and implications can help educators follow what the law requires and avoid legal entanglements (Imber & Van Geel, 2004).

4. How are legal issues and financial issues related in education?

Legal issues are related to financial issues in education because if the school gets sued for a legal infraction committed by a staff member, then the school could end up in serious financial trouble. Schools have very limited budgets as it is, and teachers who break laws by crossing inappropriate lines with students, or any other type of transgression, can result in a civil suit that can be extremely damaging to the school's financial status, as well as its reputation. Under the current funding structure there are numerous problems that need to be resolved, and just as many potential solutions, all with their own sets of pros and cons. Currently, "The local school districts, then, are...
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