Planning to help out with cafeteria duty at your second-grader's school, or tag along on the fifth-grade field trip? Then recent changes to state law matter to you. A host of changes to state laws ...

(TNS) —When disaster strikes in Palm Beach County, Fla., a team of volunteers trained by county emergency managers can be deployed as the first line of defense, helping their communities with ...

PICKERINGTON, Ohio — Mike and Emily Jennings want to be clear: they are for background checks. They think all volunteers should be thoroughly and frequently vetted, no question. However, the new ...

It ought to go without saying that a volunteer firefighter isn’t going to perpetrate a sex crime or rob a house when he’s supposed to be dousing the flames. Apparently it isn’t that obvious. Last year ...

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - The start of the school year brings with it the need for volunteers, both inside and outside the classroom. “Volunteers come in with certain expectations on safety and ...

No one was more surprised to learn of Gov. Tom Wolf's plan to waive the fee for background checks for volunteers who work around children than Rep. Dan Moul. Moul, R-Gettysburg, who sponsored the ...

Students make their way to class between first and second period on the first day of school at Lakewood High School in St. Petersburg on Aug. 11. Starting in January, Pinellas school district will ...

Beginning next school year, volunteers who want to chaperone Forest Lake school district students on field trips or overnight activities will have to undergo background checks – but they won’t have to ...

A year after stiffening its standards for school volunteers, the Boulder Valley School District now is requiring the volunteers who work most closely with children to pay for their own background ...

HILLSBORO -- By the end of this school year, more volunteers will have passed through Hillsboro schools than employees. The 2,400 teachers, secretaries, custodians and administrators have had their ...