Legal Services
TSBA provides legal assistance to board members and superintendents with legal training and interpretations of statutes, rules and policies.
The association maintains an up-to-date file of school cases and attorney general opinions and has access to all published Tennessee Appellate Court opinions and opinions published in the Lexis Total Research System.
The Tennessee Council of School Board Attorneys (TCSBA) is an organization of attorneys representing public school boards in Tennessee. The Council annually offers the Summer Law Institutes, Employment Law Seminar, and Legal Clinic Workshops during TSBA's Convention which qualify for continuing legal education CLE credit. Council members receive the Tennessee School Law Quarterly publication summarizing Tennessee school law cases and attorney general opinions. Current and past issues are available on our website to view and download.
For more information on TCSBA and COSA, click here.
Hearing Officer List 2012
Parliamentary Procedure Online Course
Video course to help explain the basics of parliamentary procedure. The goal of this course is to help explain how school board members can use Roberts Rules of Order to function more efficiently and professionally. If you'd like to take the course please click the link provided below and you will be directed to an offsite login page. Once there, click the "login as a guest" button and it will take to directly to the course. Simply follow the directions on the page to complete the course.
If you have any additional questions after completing this course or have difficulties accessing it, please contact Randall Bennett at rbennett@tsba.net or call 615-815-3902.
Click here to connect to the login page.
Open Meetings Overview
To hear an overview of Tennessee's Open Meetings Law, Click "play" below