He expects to see a growing number of schools regulating student conduct online and a growing number of parents contesting school punishments in court.
By using Apex, aschool could avoid the cost of hiring a teacher to conduct AP English classes, for example, but could still offer these advanced classes.
The Lord Mayor of Oxford is to be investigated as to whether a comment he allegedly made while visiting aschool breached the council's code of conduct.
An IOM committee will conducta study on sports-related concussions in youth, from elementary school through young adulthood, including military personnel and their dependents.
Oliver said that a legislative committee will conduct hearings on the issue shortly, and that the school's funding for athletics will be examined during budget hearings beginning this month.
"The school believes that a lawsuit seeking tens of millions of dollars in damages based on conduct that took place largely in the 1960's and 1970's is not actionable, " Mr. Farley said in an email.
The purpose of the Amy Hestir Student Protection Act is to prevent school employees from engaging in improper sexual conduct with students, but the ban on website communication is a broad measure that extends far beyond this purpose.