Kansas School Board Legal Hotline

Join us on Thursday, January 30th at 4 pm (CDT) to learn more about free legal services now available to all Kansas school boards through School Boards for Academic Excellence (SBAE), a national organization committed to restoring academic excellence.

KSBRC is proud to introduce you to David Hoyt, Executive Director of School Boards for Academic Excellence, and the legal hotline team, Ryan Kriegshauser and Josh Ney, founders of the Kriegshauser Ney Law Group. The panelists will discuss the purpose of the new legal services to provide Kansas school board members with (free) legal advice on various issues related to their roles and responsibilities. They will discuss how they will provide legal guidance to school board members to navigate obstacles for needed reforms, whether dealing with policy implementation, compliance with state and federal laws, reconciling needed policy reforms with existing state and local statutes, or other legal concerns.

Panelists:

David Hoyt serves as the Executive Director of School Boards for Academic Excellence, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering school board members to reassert academic excellence in America’s schools. David has served in management and fundraising positions with The Heartland Institute, Young Americans for Liberty, and other like-minded organizations. With his wife, he cofounded Cornerstone Classical Academy in Jacksonville, Florida, a classical charter school of more than 900 students. In 2023, Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed David to the Florida Historical Commission. David’s editorials have appeared in Fox News, American Thinker, RedState, and other outlets. He has been interviewed on various national and international programs for television, radio, and podcasts. He is an active member and volunteer with his church. In his spare time, David is writing a book on political philosophy, currently on pace to be published in 2024.

Ryan A. Kriegshauser

Mr. Krieghauser has served his country as a Naval Officer and is a veteran of Afghanistan. Ryan also served as a prosecutor and the General Counsel at the Office of the Kansas Securities Commissioner. Ryan previously served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Office of Legal Counsel and Policy. He also served on the Kansas Judicial Counsel’s Lien Law Advisory Committee, the State Rules and Regulation Board, the Kansas Bar Association’s Limited Liability Company Study Group, and served as a voting member of the Kansas Governor’s Commission on Emergency Planning & Response Continuity of Operations Planning Committee.

​Additionally, Ryan has written scholarly articles on property rights and taught continuing legal education in Kansas. He spent two years working in Washington, DC, both on and off Capitol Hill.

​Mr. Kriegshauser holds a B.A. and a J.D., graduating from Georgetown University and the University of Missouri at Kansas City. He currently serves in the Navy Reserve. 

Joshua A. Ney:

Josh Ney served as the Kansas Securities Commissioner and as Kansas’s chief regulator of the financial services industry from 2013-2017. Josh has personally won jury verdicts for his clients in both federal and state court. His extensive experience in complex civil and administrative legal disputes has established Josh’s career as a public servant and private litigator around maintaining integrity and accomplishing results.

As an experienced criminal litigator both for the prosecution and criminal defense clients, Mr. Ney has successfully tried many high-level jury trials to verdict.

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