Policy services
Our services include comprehensive policy drafting and maintenance that meet legal requirements and your specific needs.
Establishing and maintaining effective, clearly-written policy is a board's foremost responsibility.
Good policy is essential to good management. Board policies serve as a guide to staff as they develop administrative regulations. Policies are also important tools in the decision-making process.
Supporting board policy development is a primary mission of OSBA. Our services include comprehensive policy drafting and maintenance that meet legal requirements and your specific needs.
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| Peggy Holstedt Director of Policy Services |
Rick Stucky Policy Services Specialist |
Leslie Fisher Policy Services Specialist |
Policy Rewrite
Are your policies out of date? Our rewrite service will take you from review to completion of a final manual. Along the way we will provide training and in-person consultation and preparation of recommended changes to current policies and administrative regulations.
Policy desk rewrite
This service provides analysis and policy drafting using available OSBA sample language (not customized) resulting in a complete, up-to-date policy manual. We'll provide you the same great service as a rewrite but without the in-person meetings.
Small district desk rewrite
If you are from a small district (fewer than 500 students), consider a desk rewrite tailored for you. We'll help the process through phone consultations.
Charter school policy service
Charter schools are unique and so are their policy manuals. Let us help you prepare policies with onsite training, meetings and document preparation. Our process will provide a complete board policy manual that complies with charter school related state and federal laws.
Policy analysis
Do you need help establishing the condition of the board's policy manual?
Policy Plus
Our signature service takes the guesswork out of maintaining policy manuals. As laws change we will update your policies for board approval. Then, you choose between the standard manual maintenance or online policy service and we'll take care of the rest. You'll still get Policy Update to stay informed -- we just do the work for you.
Policy manual maintenance
Do you like getting Policy Update (included with this package) but want help maintaining policies, too? We can help! After adoption, send us the changes. We will review them for compliance, make the changes and send you the final version for your policy manual.
Policy - online board policy manual
If you want staff and community to have online access to your policies, consider letting us host your manual. We'll keep you informed with Policy Update, review changes you make for compliance and maintain your entire policy manual online.
Policy Update
Policy Update, keeps you updated with a quarterly newsletter and updated sample policies so you can quickly update, revise or draft your own policies, and live webinars recorded to provide support and question and answer sessions.
Charter School Policy Update
Policy Update written for public charter schools. If you are a member that sponsors a public charter school in your district, you may purchase the Charter School Supplemental in addition to your Policy Update subscription (or manual maintenance or online policy manual subscription) for $200 annually.
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Increase community support while saving time and money by streamlining assembly and distribution of meeting notices, packets and minutes.
Why reinvent the wheel if you don't have to? We've done the legwork and created staff and student handbook templates you can personalize. Whether you are a charter school or a K-12 district, we have a handbook tailored to your specific needs. Handbooks are complete with information about how to use them, what is required by law and sample language.
Model Staff Handbook
The model staff handbook provides a basis for the creation and update of your staff handbook. The model includes both sample language and information regarding legal notices and local requirements.
The fully annotated Model Staff Handbook includes:
• Statements and notices required by law
• Editorial notes on how to use this information
• Suggestions on how to correlate items with Board policy
Order the Model Charter Staff Handbook - $125
Order the Model District Staff Handbook - $125
Model Student Handbook
The model student handbook provides a basis for the creation and update of your student handbooks. It includes the most current information about required notice to students and parents and sample language can be used or modified to meet each building’s needs.
The fully annotated Model Student Handbook includes:
• Statements and notices required by law
• Editorial notes on how to use this information
• Suggestions on how to correlate items with district policy
Order the Model Charter Student Handbook - $125
Order the Model District Student Handbook - $125
Key Dates and Activities Calendar
This quick reference guide to key state and federal requirements and timelines provides a researched and annotated basis for your district's calendar of activities. OSBA's staff has reviewed the Oregon Revised Statutes, Oregon Administrative Rules, federal laws and rules plus a variety of additional sources to bring you the most complete listing of required and suggested board and administrator actions and activities.
Order the Key Dates and Activities Calendar - $150
Revisions Sets
Purchased the complete handbook last year? Save money by purchasing an abbreviated package containing just the revisions from the previous publication.
Order the Model Charter Staff Handbook - Revisions - $50
Order the Model Charter Student Handbook - Revisions - $50
Order the Model District Staff Handbook - Revisions - $50
Order the Model District Student Handbook - Revisions - $50
Combination Packs
Save money by purchasing OSBA's district student and staff handbooks with the key dates and activities calendar in one combination pack.
Order the Combination Packet - $275
For more information please contact OSBA's Policy Services department 800-578-6722 or info@osba.org.