Since 2010, state law has required background checks and fingerprinting of certified staff, non-certified staff and even unpaid individuals who work directly with children in public schools.

County school officials and the governor’s office each assumed the other had conducted background checks on school board members before board members were appointed. Neither of them did.

Alachua County Public Schools on Tuesday fired 34-year-old paraprofessional Chad Purdy, who in 2012 confessed to detectives he had an obsession with a 12-year-old girl. The school district never knew.

If the program works, Hillsboro will expand it to all 33 schools in the fall. Beaverton and Tigard-Tualatin school districts have had districtwide programs in place for at least two years.

The protocol set by Lowell's principal, Gregory King, is to require criminal background screening for any parents volunteering on school outings, district spokeswoman Teresa Wippel said.

Schools in Michigan are not required by law to do any sort of background checks on incoming school volunteers, yet the state recommends schools do so every 30 days.

BRIDGEPORT -- A proposal to keep sex offenders and other criminals out of city schools by doing instant background checks and issuing photo IDs to all visitors could well be jettisoned before it ...

High school students in states that require universal background checks on all prospective gun buyers are less likely to carry guns compared to students in states that require background checks ...

The new draft policy proposes creating three categories of school visitors, and a different level of screening for each: Level One: Visitors Visitors would not be required to obtain a background check ...

Since 2010, state law has required background checks and fingerprinting of certified staff, non-certified staff and even unpaid individuals who work directly with children in public schools.