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Who publishes The Standard of Care in Schools, and who pays for it
An authority page that hides its owner is worth less than one that names it. This page states both, along with the rules the Center is written under.
The Standard of Care in Schools is published and funded by Vident Partners, an expert witness referral firm. It is a section of videntpartners.com, not a separate publisher, and the ownership line appears in the header of every page it contains.
Vident Partners is compensated when an attorney engages an expert through its referral service. That is the commercial interest behind this publication, and it is stated here rather than left to be discovered.
Ownership
Who publishes this
The Standard of Care in Schools is published by Vident Partners, an expert witness referral firm founded in 2005 and based in Dallas, Texas. It is not a separate company, a nonprofit, an academic institute, or an independent journal. It is a section of videntpartners.com, and it says so in the header of every page it contains.
We publish it under our own name on purpose. The experts who anchor this Center will list what they write here among their publications when they are retained, and opposing counsel will read those disclosures and follow the link. There is nothing on these pages we would not want them to find, and nothing about who publishes it that we would rather they did not know.
Funding
Who pays for it
Vident Partners funds this Center in full. The Center accepts no advertising, no sponsorship, and no third-party funding of any kind.
Vident Partners is compensated when an attorney engages an expert through our referral service. That is our business, and it is the commercial interest behind this publication. Reading anything here costs nothing and obligates nothing, and the initial consultation is complimentary.
Editorial policy
How pages are written and corrected
Every factual assertion on a Center page carries a numbered citation to a primary source — a statute, a regulation, a court opinion, a federal dataset, a government publication, or a recognized national standard. Secondary commentary is not cited in place of the source underneath it.
Every cited URL is checked before publication and rechecked whenever a page is revised. A reference that cannot be opened is not a reference.
The Center takes no position on the outcome of any case. Where the authority favors neither side, the page says so. Where the law is genuinely unsettled, the page says that too.
Corrections are made on the page rather than silently. When a figure changes because the underlying dataset was revised, the figure and its citation are updated together.
Expert selection
How anchor experts are selected
Anchor experts are selected on credentials and operating record in the specific question at issue — not on availability, and not on how often they have testified.
A documented testimony history on both sides of the “v.” is a selection criterion, not a footnote. The same standard this Center asks attorneys to apply to any retained expert is the standard applied to the experts who anchor it.
Anchor experts do not direct the Center’s editorial content, and nothing published here is written to support a position in a pending matter.
Appearing here is not an endorsement of any opinion an expert may offer in any particular case. Retention decisions belong to counsel.
Standing rule
The sourcing rule
No claim without a citation. If a statement cannot be traced to a primary source a reader can open, it does not go on the page — however obviously true it seems.
A population figure is not an individual finding. Statistics describing a population are never presented as though they resolve a particular case.
A number is reported with the conditions that produced it: the sampling method, the period covered, whether the data are provisional, and whether they are subject to revision.
The Center currently cites 41 primary sources. They are listed in full, with live links, at the foot of the Center overview.
Corrections, questions, and disagreements
If something on a The Standard of Care in Schools page is wrong, out of date, or reads as advocacy rather than evidence, tell us and we will fix it on the page. If you are working a matter and need an expert, the consultation is complimentary.