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Model public charter school student handbook

Get the sample language you need to meet student and parent notification requirements

Use our well-researched and consistently updated model as the basis for your school’s student handbook. The fully annotated handbook includes the most current information about what the laws require you to say to students and parents. Sample language can be used or modified to meet your school’s need.

The Model Public Charter School Student Handbook provides:

  • Statements and notices required by law
  • Editorial notes on how to use this information
  • Suggestions on how to correlate items with district policy

Public charter schools may access this publication with a Memorandum of Understanding from their sponsor for $150. Contact OSBA to help access this publication today. After purchase, this material is available online through the portal. An annual revision (reflects only revisions from the previous year) can be purchased for $75.

Model Public Charter School Student Handbook sample pages (174k This file is in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Click here to download.) - Preview a small sample of pages from OSBA's Model Student Handbook.

Contents of the Model Public Charter School Student Handbook

  • Absences
  • Animal Dissection
  • Asbestos
  • Assemblies Assignments of Students to Classes
  • Assignments of Students to Schools
  • Attendance Awards and Honors Class Ranking Clubs and Organizations
  • Communicable Diseases
  • Computer Use
  • Conduct
  • Conferences
  • Counseling
  • Credit by Examination
  • Credit for Proficiency
  • Cyberbullying
  • Damage to District Property
  • Dances/Social Events
  • Discipline/Due Process
  • Distance/Online Learning
  • Distribution of Material Dress and Grooming
  • Drills - Fire, Earthquake and Other Emergency Drills
  • Drug, Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention Program
  • Emergency Medical Treatment
  • Emergency School Closing Information
  • Expanded Options Program
  • Extracurricular Activities
  • Fees, Fines and Damages
  • Field Trips
  • Flag Salute
  • Foreign Exchange Students
  • Fund Raising
  • Gangs
  • Grade Classification
  • Grade Reduction/Credit Denial
  • Graduation Exercises
  • Graduation Requirements
  • Hazing/Harassment/Intimidation/Bullying/Cyberbullying/Menacing
  • Homeless Students
  • Homework
  • Immunization
  • Infection Control/HIV, HBV and AIDS
  • Insurance
  • Local Wellness
  • Lockers
  • Lost and Found
  • Lunch/Breakfast
  • Program Media Access to Students
  • Medicine at School
  • Parental Involvement
  • Parental Rights
  • Personal Communication Devices and Social Media
  • Physical Examinations
  • Posters
  • Program Exemptions
  • Promotion, Retention and Placement of Students
  • Release of Students from School
  • Reports to Students and Parents
  • Searches and Questioning
  • Senior Trips
  • Special Programs
  • Student/Parent Complaints
  • Student Education Records
  • Student Offices and Elections
  • Student Schedules
  • Summer School
  • Supervision of Students
  • Talented and Gifted Program
  • Threats
  • Tobacco-Free Environment
  • Traffic Safety
  • Transcript Evaluation
  • Transfer of Students
  • Transportation of Students
  • Travel Services
  • Vehicles on Campus
  • Visitors

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