Model 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 printed 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 each school’s need. The handbook text is available on disk to make it easy to reconfigure for your specifications.
The Model 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
Order this material online through the portal in the Online Store for $150. In the online store, choose the 'Membership Category', 'Download', add your contact information, check the items to purchase and complete checkout. An annual revision (reflects only revisions from the previous year) can be purchased for $75.
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Contents of the Model Student Handbook
- Admission Alternative Education Programs
- Alternative Education Programs -- Establishment Alternative Education Notification
- 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