A. Foundations and Basic Commitments – The District’s legal role in providing public education and the basic principles underlying school board governance. These policies provide a setting for all of the school board’s other policies and regulation.
B. Board Governance and Operations – The school board – how it is elected; how it is organized; how it conducts meetings, and how the board operates. This section includes policies establishing the board’s internal operating procedures.
C. General School Administration – School management, administrative organization, and school building and department administration – including the administrative aspect of special programs and system wide reforms such as school – or site-based management. It also houses personnel policies for the superintendent and executive team.
D. Fiscal Management – School finances and the management of funds, material resources, purchasing and warehousing. Policies on the financing of school construction and renovation, however, are filed in Section F, Facilities Development.
E. Support Services – Non-instructional services and programs, particularly those on business management such as safety, building, and grounds management, office services, transportation, and food services.
G. Personnel – Personnel Polices for all school employees except for the superintendent and executive team. I Instruction – The instructional program: basic curricular subjects; special programs, instructional resources, evaluation of programs, and academic achievement.
I. Instruction - The instructional program: basic curricular subjects; special programs, instructional resources, evaluation of programs, and academic achievement.
J. Students– Admissions, attendance, rights and responsibilities, conduct, discipline, health and welfare, and school-related activities.
K. School Community Relations – Parent and community involvement in schools. Statements on public sector relations with the District, except for policies concerning education agencies.
