Get the sample language you need to meet student and parent notification requirements
Use this researched and regularly updated model as the basis for a school’s student handbook. The fully annotated handbook includes the most current information concerning laws which require notice to students and parents. Sample language can be used or modified to meet the school’s needs.
The Model Public Charter School Student Handbook includes
- Statements and notices required by law
- Editorial notes on how to use this information
- Suggestions on how to correlate items with policy
Model Public Charter School Student Handbook sample pages (174k pdf) – Preview a small sample of pages from OSBA’s Model Student Handbook.
Public charter schools may access this publication with a Memorandum of Understanding from their sponsor. After purchase, this material is available online through the OSBA portal. An annual revision (reflects only revisions from the previous year) is available if a handbook was purchased the previous year.
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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
- Damage to School 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
- Exchange Students
- Fund Raising
- Gangs
- Grade Classification
- Graduation Exercises
- Graduation Requirements
- Hazing/Harassment/Intimidation/Bullying/Cyberbullying/Menacing
- Homeless Students
- Immunization
- Infection Control/HIV, HBV and AIDS
- Local Wellness
- Lost and Found
- Meal Programs
- Media Access to Students
- Medications at School
- Parental Involvement
- Parental Rights
- Personal Electronic 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