It's called CYA... (Score 1)

My wife is a Chemsitry and AP Env Studies teacher. If there is ever anything she wants done all she does is bring up safety. Write the word safety on a request and it's done in less than twenty-four hours. Now maybe you can't make this a safety issue, but along those same lines bring up legality issues. Write a memo or email or whatever to your boss, use the words "illigal actions" or something along those lines. If they ignore it, send it to the people of them and right up the line. And ALWAYS document. If someone comes down on you for not improving things, you always have documentation what needs to be done but you did not get the support for it.

Another good thing is get to the administration and faculty. You may need to work at it, but you get the administration on your side and it's amazing what you can get done. Get along with the faculty and you'd be amazed by the response you get simply by talking to them about things (but you need to have some sort of relationship before hand.)