As a 21st-century education professional, you may face the challenges of a highly litigious and well-regulated society. To successfully lead your organization through these challenges, you must do more than simply acknowledge or respond to legal issues.

As a 21st-century education professional, you may face the challenges of a highly litigious and well-regulated society. To successfully lead your organization through these challenges, you must do more than simply acknowledge or respond to legal issues. You will be expected to collaborate with the education community and engage in strategic planning to analyze laws and regulatory processes, mitigate risks, and prepare for future issues that could have an impact on your discipline or organization. This assignment will challenge you to identify one such issue and to develop a strategic report that addresses various factors related to the expanding legal issue.

Your goal with this assignment is not to predict future legal trends. However, you should be able to identify one current legal issue in your discipline that has the potential to advance in scope and scale in the years to come. 

Identify a contemporary issue in education with substantial legal implications that you expect to advance in scope and scale within the next 3-5 years.  

Strategic report to address the legal implications of the selected issue on your organization or discipline. Your report must include the following sections:

    I.    Introduction and Issue Description

Describe the current issue, its origins, and relevant context.     II.   Legal Analysis

Analyze the issue's current legal implications and regulatory processes on the education entity, its staff, and/or its learners.      III.   Strategic Recommendations

Propose one strategic recommendation, supported by at least 3 empirical, peer-reviewed sources of evidence, to help mitigate the negative educational impact of the contemporary issue on your organization or discipline. Evaluate the potential implementation challenges and propose strategies for managing those challenges.      IV.  Conclusion

Analyze the ability of the strategic recommendations to strengthen regulatory processes and reduce the potential liability of the institution and its constituents. Support the contents of your report with at least 3 empirical, peer-reviewed sources