The 2026-27 Quarterly Webinars topics are set!    

This year's series follows a student from the front door to the sidelines and back again: how they get in, whether they show up, what rights they carry once they're here, and every other way they might land on your enrollment roster. As always, each three-hour session goes deeper than an hour-long webinar or a 45-minute conference breakout can, and each comes loaded with the forms and checklists you need to put the law into practice.  These webinars will be from 12:00-1:00.

Topic:  Welcome to the Never-Ending Transfer Portal: Surviving Option Enrollment

Date:   October 13, 2026

College athletes aren't the only ones changing schools with regularity these days. Every year, Nebraska families use option enrollment to move their kids to the district (or the program) that fits best, and every year, school leaders get tripped up on the same handful of deadlines, capacity decisions, and appeal rights.  Add in a few years of legislative tinkering and some persistent myths about what option enrollment does and doesn't require, and it's easy to see why this topic keeps landing back on the quarterly schedule.  KSB's attorneys will walk through the full option enrollment lifecycle – from setting capacity and posting notice to handling requests, denials, and appeals – with an emphasis on recent changes to the law.

*Participants will receive updated option enrollment forms, including scripts and checklists for central office staff, sample capacity resolutions reflecting common practices so you don’t have to guess about all the blanks to fill in, and sample response letters ready to drop into your own process.

→Ideal for: superintendents, principals, special education directors and central office staff who handle option enrollment applications and appeals.

Topic:  Bueller? Bueller? Getting Serious About Attendance and Truancy

Date:   December 8, 2026

Ferris Bueller made skipping school look effortless. For the students missing class today, the reasons — and the legal consequences for schools that don't respond correctly — are a lot more complicated.  Chronic absenteeism has become one of the defining student issues of the last several years, and schools are under increasing pressure to intervene earlier, document more carefully, and know exactly when a truancy referral is required (and when it isn't). With NDE and state report cards focusing on attendance rates more than ever, this landscape is confusing and frustrating.  This webinar walks through the full attendance continuum: distinguishing excused from unexcused absences, running a legally sound attendance-intervention process, steps required by Nebraska law before notifying the county attorney, coordinating with county attorneys on truancy filings, and avoiding the compliance traps that come with tracking attendance for IEPs, 504 plans, and state reporting.

*Participants will receive information on what to check in your attendance policies, sample intervention plan templates for common scenarios, and truancy referral checklists.

→Ideal for: superintendents, principals, assistant principals, and attendance/truancy officers.

Topic:  You Have the Right to Remain a Student: First and Fourth Amendment and Related Issues in Schools

Date:   February 2, 2027

Students don't leave their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate — but they don't walk in with the same rights as adults on a public sidewalk, either.  That gap is exactly where school leaders get into trouble.  This session tackles two of the most active areas of student-rights law: free speech (on campus and off, in person and online) and search and seizure (backpacks, lockers, phones, and vehicles).  We'll cover what the courts have said about disciplining students for off-campus speech, how far administrators can go when searching a student or their device, and how to train staff to recognize the difference between a lawful search and a lawsuit waiting to happen.  KSB's attorneys will provide practical, scenario-based guidance throughout.

*Participants will receive updated search-and-seizure guidelines and a free-speech decision-tree checklist for building administrators.

→Ideal for: superintendents, principals, assistant principals, and school resource officers.

Topic:  Where Do They Belong? Every Enrollment Question That Isn't Option[al]

Date:   April 21, 2027

Just because it's not called 'Option Enrollment' doesn't mean it's optional.  Is a homeschool student entitled to take band, art, and “recess” part-time?  Which address actually establishes residency when a student splits time between two parent homes in two different school districts? What happens to enrollment and eligibility when a student becomes court-involved or enters foster care mid-semester?  And once a student is enrolled, what does it take for them to be eligible to play, perform, or compete?  This webinar rounds up every enrollment scenario that doesn't fall under the option enrollment statutes, giving school leaders a practical framework for handling part-time enrollment, residency determinations, court-involved, foster, and homeless-student enrollment, and activity eligibility rules.

*Participants will receive a residency quick-reference guide and checklist of items to capture on enrollment forms.

→Ideal for: superintendents, principals, activities directors, and enrollment/registrar staff.