Alphabetic Policy Index Information                     

This Index is designed to quickly link the reader to the individual section(s) dealing with a specific topic.
The terminology used in the typical Policy Manuals has been included here 
including a listing of all sections covered under each topic heading. 
In addition  popular synonyms have also been utilized where necessary to guide the reader. 
Cross-referencing has been employed to provide all of the major sections dealing with certain important topics.

ABSENCE  LEAVE OF
        Administrative employees    335     336     338     338.1     339
        Classified employees    535     536     539     542
        Professional employees    435     436     438.1     439     442
ADMINISTRATIVE EMPLOYEES    301
        Abolishing positions    310
        Assignment and transfer    309
        Compensated professional leaves    338.1
        Compensation plan    328
        Complaint policy    326
        Creating positions    301
        Disciplinary procedures    317
        Disqualification by health    315     334     335
        Dress and grooming    325
        Drug-free workplace    351
        Employment    104     302     303     303.1
        Employment contract    308
        Evaluation    312     313
        Family and medical leaves    335
        Freedom of speech    320
        Gifts    322
        Job related expenses    331
        Management team    327
        Nepotism    303.2
        Nontenured administrators    316
        Outside activities    319     321
        Personal necessity leave    336
        Personnel files    324
        Physical examination    314     314.1
        Political activities    321
        Professional growth/tuition reimbursement    333
        Sabbatical leave    338
        Sick leave    334
        Smoking    323
        Suspension and furloughs    311
        Uncompensated leave    339
        Unlawful harassment    348
        Vacation    337
ADULT EDUCATION    125
        Allowability of Costs   650
        Assessment (grading)    213     215
ASSIGNMENT AND TRANSFER
        Administrative employees    309
        Classified employees    509
        Professional employees    409
ATHLETICS    122     123     123.1     211
ATTENDANCE
        General    204
        Married/pregnant pupils    234
BOARD OF SCHOOL DIRECTORS (see School Board Procedures And Goals)
        Committees    005
        Meetings    006     903
        Membership    004
        Officers    005
        Voting    006
BONDING    005     811
BUDGET
        Adoption    604
        Planning    602
        Preparation    603
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS  (see Property)
BULLYING/CYBERBULLYING    249     815
CALENDAR    803
        Cash Management 652
CHILD/STUDENT ABUSE    806
CITIZEN ADVISORY COMMITTEES    905
CLASS SIZE    126
CLASSIFIED EMPLOYEES    501
        Assignment and transfer    509
        Background checks of prospective employees    504
        Compensatory time    530
        Creating positions    501
        Discipline    517
        Disqualification by health    514     515     535
        Dress and grooming    525
        Drug-free workplace    551
        Educational interpreters    504
        Employment    104     504     508
        Employment contract    508
        Evaluation    512
        Family and medical leaves    535
        Grievance procedure    526
        Jury duty    542
        Outside activities    519
        Overtime    530
        Paid holidays    543
        Part-time personnel    541
        Personal care assistants    504
        Personal necessity leave    536
        Personnel files    524
        Physical examination    514     515
        Reduction in staff    511
        Short-term employees    505
        Sick leave    534
        Smoking    523
        Special education paraprofessionals    504
        Substitutes    505
        Uncompensated leave    539
        Unlawful harassment    548
        Vacation    537
        Working periods    532
COMMUNITY    901
        Citizen advisory committees    905
        Classroom visitations    907
        Community relations    910
        Dissemination of materials  nonschool    913
        District/school report cards    919
        Foreign trip sales    913
        Fundraising  nonschool groups    913
        Municipal government relations    909
        News media relations    902     911
        Nonschool activities    913
        Nonschool materials    913
        Nonschool organizations/groups/individuals    913
        Parent relations    908
        Public attendance at school functions    904.1
        Public complaints    906
        Public participation at Board meetings    903
        Public relations objectives    901
        Publications program    902     911
        Relations with educational institutions    912
        Relations with intermediate unit    914
        Research involving district students  faculty  and staff    912.1
        Scholarships  awards    913
        School visitors    907
        Student participation  nonschool activities    913
        Title I complaint procedure    906
COMPLAINTS
        Administrative employees    326
        Classified employees    526
        Discrimination    103     104    
        Professional employees    426
        Public complaints    906
        NCLB complaints    906
        Student complaints    219
        Conflict of Interest    654
COURSES OF STUDY    107
CURRICULUM (see Programs)
DISCIPLINE
        Administrative employees    317
        Classified employees    517
        Professional employees    417
        Students    218     218.1     218.2     233     249
DRESS AND GROOMING
        Administrative employees    325
        Classified employees    525
        Professional employees    425
        Students    221
DRUG AND ALCOHOL AWARENESS    227     351     451     551
DRUG OVERDOSE - NALOXONE, Opioid Antagonist First Aid  823
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS    805  823
EMPLOYEES (Administrative    301; Classified    501; Professional    401)
EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT
        Administrative employees    308
        Classified employees    508
        Professional employees    408
EVALUATION
        Administrative employees    313
        Classified employees    5123
        Professional/temporary professional employees    412
        Superintendent    312
EXPENSES
        Board members    004
        Employees    331     431
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES    122     228     229     618
FACILITIES (see Property)
FIELD TRIPS    121
FINANCES    601
        Bank accounts    608
        Budget    602     603     604
        Cash Management 652
        Competitive electronic auction bidding    610
        Conflict of Interest    654
        District audit - public    619
        Electronic bidding    610
        Investments    609
        Objectives    601
        Payment of claims    616
        Payroll authorization    614
        Payroll deduction    615
        Petty cash    617
        Procurement   656
        Purchases    610     611     612
        Purchasing  cooperative    613
        Quotations    610
        Special purpose funds    618
        Student body fund    618
        Tax collection    606
        Tax levy    605
        Travel Reimbursement    658
        Tuition income    607
FIRE DRILLS    805
FIRST AID, NALOXONE, Opioid Antagonist 823
FMLA
        Administrative employees    335
        Classified employees    535
        Professional employees    435
FOOD SERVICES    808     808.1
GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS    217
GUIDANCE COUNSELING    112
HOME EDUCATION PROGRAMS    137     137.1  
HOMEBOUND INSTRUCTION    117     204     234
HOMEWORK    130
INSURANCE    211     812     813
INTERMEDIATE UNIT    914
INVENTORY    706
INVESTMENTS    609
LEAVES (see Absence  Leave of)
LESSON PLANS    111
MAINTENANCE    703     704
MEDIA RELATIONS    911
MEDICATIONS    210     210.1
MOTOR VEHICLES    223
NALOXONE, Opioid Antagonist First Aid  823
NICOTINE (see Smoking)
NONRESIDENT STUDENTS    202
OPERATIONS    801
        Bonding    811
        Child/student abuse    806
        Contracted services    818
        Copyright material    814
        Drug/alcohol testing - covered drivers    810.1     810.1a
        Emergency evacuation    805
        Emergency preparedness    805
        Flag display    807
        Food safety  inspections    808
        Food safety program    808
        Food service    808
        Fraud    828
        Free/reduced-price meals    808.1
        Idling restrictions  school buses    810.2
        Insurance    812     813
        Internet    815.1
        Litigation hold    801
        Opening exercises    807
        Organization    802
        Pandemic    805
        Property insurance    812
        Public records    801
        Records management    801
        Records retention    801
        School bus idling    810.2
        School calendar    803
        School day    804
        School meal accounts    808
        Technology/Internet/Web site    815     815.1     815.2     815.3
        Transportation    810     810.1     810.1a     810.2
ORGANIZATIONS
        Relations with School-affiliated organizations    915
PAYROLL
        Authorization    614
        Deductions    615
PERSONNEL FILES (see Records)
PETTY CASH    617
PHYSICAL EXAMINATIONS
        Administrative employees    314.1     315     335
        Classified employees    514     514.1     515     535
        Professional employees    414     414.1     415     435
        Students    209
POSITIONS
        Abolishing    310    410410     511
        Creating    301     401     501
POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS    205
PREGNANT/MARRIED PUPILS    234
        Procurement   656
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES    4010
        Abolishing positions    410
        Assignment and transfer    409
        Compensated professional leaves    438.1
        Complaints    426
        Creating positions    401
        Disciplinary procedures    417
        Disqualification by health    415     435
        Dress and grooming    425
        Drug-free workplace    451
        Employment    404     404.1     405
        Employment contract   408    
        Evaluation    411     412
        Family and medical leaves    435
        Freedom of speech    420
        Gifts    422
        Job related expenses    431
        Jury duty    442
        Nontenured staff    416
        Outside activities    419     421
        Personal necessity leave    436
        Personnel files    424
        Physical examinations    414     414.1
        Political activities    421
        Professional growth    433
        Responsibility for student welfare    440
        Sabbatical leave    438
        Salary determination    428
        Sick leave    434
        Smoking    423
        Student teachers    407
        Summer school staff    406     411
        Suspensions and furloughs    409     411     412
        Tardiness/attendance    418
        Uncompensated leave    439
        Unlawful harassment    448
        Working periods    432
PROGRAMS    100
        Academic standards    105.3
        Adoption of textbooks    108    
        Adult education    1215
        Alternative credit for physical education    105.4   
        Assessments    127
        Behavior support    113.2
        Charter schools    140
        Child find and screening    113.4
        Classroom and program site visitations    105.5
        Class size    126
        Course guides    106
        Courses of study    107
        Current events    119
        Curriculum development    105     105.3
        Curriculum review by parents and students    105.1
        Day care    138
        Delegation of authority to athletic team coaches    123.2
        Diversity    103.1
        Educational goals    102
        English as a Second Language Program    116.1
        Exemption from instruction    105.2
        Extracurricular activities    122     228     229     618
        Extracurricular participation by charter/cyber charter students    140.1
        Extracurricular participation by home education students    137.1    
        Field trips and other student trips    121
        Gifted education    114
        Guidance counseling    112
        Home education programs    137       
        Homebound instruction    117     204     234
        Homework    130
        Human development program    120
        Independent education evaluations and special education evaluations   113.3
        Independent study    118
        Instructional supplies    110
        Interscholastic athletics    122
        Lesson plans    111
        Nondiscrimination    103     104  
        Outdoor activities    122
        Special education    113     113.2     113.3     113.4
        Strategic plan    100
        Strategic plan mission statement    101
        Student services    146
        Summer school    124     406
        Tutoring    116     116.1     204
        Vocational technical education    115
PROPERTY   701
        Advertising - athletic facilities    707.1
        Building security    709
        Disposal of property  equipment and supplies    706.1
        Facilities naming rights    702
        Facilities planning    701
        Gifts to schools    702
        Insurance    812
        Inventory and records    706
        Lending of school equipment    708
        Maintenance    704
        Property records    706
        Revenue enhancement    702
        Safety    705
        Sanitary management    703
        Smoking    705
        Use of facilities by staff    710
        Use of school facilities    707
PUBLIC RELATIONS (see Community)
PUPILS    201
        Admission of beginners    201     203     209
        Assessment    213     215
        Assignment within district    206
        Asthma inhalers  possession/use    210.1
        Attendance    204     207     234
        Bicycles and motor vehicles    223
        Bullying    249
        Care of school property    224
        Cyberbullying    249     815     815.1     815.2     815.3
        Discipline    218     233
        Distribution and posting of materials    220
        Dress and grooming    221
        Drug and alcohol awareness    227
        Electronic devices    237
        Enrollment in district    202
        Expression    220
        Expulsion    233
        Fundraising    229     618
        Gifted pupils    114
        Graduation requirements    217
        Hazing    247
        Health examinations/screenings    209
        Hearings  formal/informal    219     233
        HIV/AIDS education    203
        Immunization/communicable diseases    203
        Medications    210     210.1
        Nonresident students    202
        Nutrition    246     246AppendixA
        Open campus    240
        Participation in school affairs    232
        Police    225
        Postgraduate students    205
        Posting of materials by students    220
        Pregnant/married students    234
        Promotion and retention    215
        Public performance/contests/service projects or recreational trips    230
        Records    216.1     216.3
        Reporting pupil progress    212
        Searches/inspections    226
        Smoking    222
        Social events and class trips    231
        Special education students    113
        Student accident insurance    211
        Student government    228
        Student rights and responsibilities    235
        Supplemental discipline records    216.3
        Suspension    233
        Terroristic threats/acts    218.2
        Unlawful harassment   248
        Weapons    218.1
        Wellness    246 
        Withdrawal    208
PURCHASES
        Budgeted    611
        Cooperative    613
        Not budgeted    612
        Subject to bid    610
RECORDS
        Administrative employees    324
        Classified employees    524
        Litigation hold    801
        Professional employees    424
        Public records    801
        Records management    801
        Records retention    801
        Students    216.1     216.3    
RELIGIOUS HOLIDAYS    204     336     436     536
SAFETY    705
SALARY    328     428     SCHEDULES
        Classified employees    532
        Professional employees    432
        School calendar    803
        School day    804
SCHOOL BOARD PROCEDURES AND GOALS    001
        Authority and power    002
        Distribution of policy    007
        Expenses    004
        Functions    003
        Meetings    006     903
        Membership    004
        Name and classification    001
        Organization    005     008
        Voting    006
SEARCHES    226
SEX EDUCATION    120
SEXUAL/UNLAWFUL HARASSMENT
        Administrative employees    348
        Classified employees    548
        Professional employees    448
        Students    248
SICK LEAVE
        Administrative employees    315     334     335
        Classified employees    515     534     535
        Professional employees    415     434     435
SMOKING
        Administrative employees    323
        Classified employees    523
        General    705
        Professional employees    423
        Students    222
SPECIAL EDUCATION    113     113.2     113.3     113.4
STUDENT WELLNESS
        Competitive foods    246
        Monitoring    246
        Nutrition guidelines    246
        Physical activity    246
        Physical education    246
        School based activities goals    246
        Wellness committee    246    
STUDENTS (see Pupils)
SUBSTITUTES
        Classified employees    505     529
        Professional employees    405
SUMMER SCHOOL    124     406
SUPERINTENDENT
        Assistant superintendent    302     312
        Employment    302
        Evaluation    312
SUSPENSIONS AND FURLOUGHS
        Administrative employees    311
        Classified employees    511
        Professional employees    411
TAXES
        Collection    606
        Levy    605
TEXTBOOKS
        Adoption/approval of instructional materials  equipment  resources   108
        Care of    224
        Disposal    706.1
        Lending    708
TOBACCO (see Smoking)
TRANSPORTATION    810     810.1     810.1a     810.2
TRAVEL REIMBURSEMENT    658
        Administrative employees    331
        Professional employees    431
        Classified employees    531
        School directors    004
TUITION    202     607
TUTORIAL INSTRUCTION    116     116.1     204
VACATION
        Administrative employees    337
        Classified employees    537
VISITORS    907
VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL EDUCATION   115
VOLUNTEER    916
WAGE AND SALARY
        Administrative employees    328
        Professional employees    428