For the past two years, the US Department of Education has been led by a former WWE executive. We're not touching that one — but we will say this: when the person at the top knows how to work a crowd and run a high-stakes operation, you probably want your compliance house in order before anyone starts paying attention to you.
And they are paying attention. Federal education spending is under scrutiny like never before, and the cost of getting grant compliance wrong — unallowable expenses, procurement missteps, missed obligation deadlines — has gone from "uncomfortable audit finding" to "very bad news very fast."
At KSB, we know when to call in a tag team partner. Federal grant compliance is one of those areas where the rules run deep enough that we regularly bring in specialists ourselves — and we have a great one.
KSB School Law and the Nebraska Department of Education, Office of Special Education have joined forces to bring the EDGAR Academy to Nebraska on Wednesday, October 14, 2026 — and you don't have to be a KSB client to attend. (You're welcome, everyone.)
You'll spend the day with Tiffany Kesslar of The Bruman Group, who has worked with schools and state education agencies across the country and has a rare gift: she makes the boring interesting, the complex understandable, and the theoretical actionable. The Bruman Group has been a go-to name in federal education law and grants management for over 45 years, and Tiffany is the real deal.
Training runs 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM at the Nebraska Department of Education's building in Lincoln. At $610 per person, attendees walk away with a thorough grounding in EDGAR and Uniform Guidance principles, cost allowability, procurement and inventory processes, and obligation timelines — plus coverage of the regulatory updates that took effect July 1, 2025, and proposed changes released May 29, 2026. Oh, and a copy of the Administrator's Handbook on EDGAR. (It's a page-turner. Sort of.)
Nobody's getting hit with a folding chair — but by 3:00 PM, your head will be full of the kind of federal grant knowledge that actually keeps auditors at bay.
This one is especially well-timed for business managers and federal program staff in Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming, and Kansas. For registration and more information, visit the following link. In the meantime, if you have questions, you know where to reach us: ksb@ksbschoollaw.com.