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CHECKLIST OF OTHER
ITEMS TO CONSIDER
Overhead costs that you incur even if you don’t open
school (building maintenance, maintaining health
insurance for all employees, utilities and any
contractual obligations that you are locked into such as
transportation, custodial, food service, some special
education costs, unemployment and others).
Legal contractual issues: Do you have to pay and
provide benefits to teachers and staff regardless of
whether you open school?
The impact of state/federal mandates (depending on
ISBE guidance, you may need to request waivers from
certain mandates).