Open Meeting Law
Attendance Law
Charter Law
Conduct and Discipline Policy Law
School Law
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How much notice do you need to give for a public meeting?
No less than 24 hours. And your notice should include: 1. agenda 2. date 3. time 4. place and in addition if you hold regularly scheduled meetings you need to post a schedule at least once a year.
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What does truant mean?
Truant is without a valid excuse. • Illness • Family death • An approved school activity • an absence permitted by school-aged minor's IEP, or accommodation plan, and any other excuse established as valid by a local school board, local charter board.
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What is the charter?
The agreement with the school and the state. It is the terms and conditions for the operation of the charter school.
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What is every student guaranteed to have by law.
The opportunity to learn in an environment which is save, conducive to the learning process and free from unnecessary disruption.
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Can a teacher with a bob haircut get a raise in Arkansas?
No
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How long do you have to prepare the recording of the meeting?
A recording of an open meeting shall be available to the public for listening within three business days after the end of the meeting.
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When can you issue a notice of compulsory education violation?
When the student is absent without a valid excuse at least five times during the school year. This notice shall direct the parent of the school-aged child to meet with school authorities to discuss attendance problem, cooperate with the school in securing regular attendance.
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Who are eligible students?
All resident students of the sate qualify for admission to a charter school.
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Are students allowed due process when they are suspended or expelled?
Yes, policies shall include written procedures for suspension and expulsion and the must be consistent with due process and provisions of the law.
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What can not be brought to school in the state of California?
A Dog
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Can you discuss an item that is not included on your agenda?
At the discretion of the presiding member of the public body, a topic raised by the public may be discussed during an open meeting, even if the topic raised by the public was not included in the agenda or advance public notice for the meeting. Except as provided in Subsection (5), relating to emergency meetings, a public body may not take final action on a topic in an open meeting unless the topic is: • listed under the agenda item and • included with the advance public notice required.
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What is "Habitual truant"
A student who is at least 12 years old, is truant at least 10 times in one school year, fails to cooperate with efforts on part of the school authorities to resolve the minor's attendance problem.
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What are the purposes of charter schools?
• Continue to improve student learning. • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods. • Create new professional opportunities for educators that will allow them to actively participate in designing and implementing the learning programs of the school • Increase choice of learning opportunities for students. • Establish new models of public schools and new forms for accountability for schools that emphasizes the measurement of learning outcomes and the creation of innovative measurements tools. • Provide opportunities for greater parental involvement in management decisions at the school level. • Expand public schools choice in areas where schools have been identified for school improvement, corrective action, or restructuring under the NO Child Left behind Act of 2001.
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What are the grounds for suspension and expulsion from school.
• frequent or flagrant willful disobedience, defiance of proper authority, or disruptive behavior, including the use of foul, profane, vulgar, or abusive language; • willful destruction or defacing of school property; • behavior or threatened behavior which poses an immediate and significant threat to the welfare, safety, or morals of other students or school personnel or to the operation of the school; • possession, control, or use of an alcoholic beverage as defined in Section 32B-1-102; behavior proscribed under Subsection (2) which threatens harm or does harm to the school or school property, to a person associated with the school, or property associated with that person, regardless of where it occurs; • possession or use of pornographic material on school property. • any serious violation affecting another student or a staff member, or any serious violation occurring in a school building, in or on school property, or in conjunction with any school activity, including • the commission of an act involving the use of force or the threatened use of force which if committed by an adult would be a felony or class A misdemeanor. • a student who commits a violation of Subsection (2)(a) involving a real or look alike weapon, explosive, or flammable material
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A school can not host what in Fresno California.
A poker tournament
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Can a board of trustees hold an electronic meeting?
Yes, if they have adopted a resolution, rule or ordnance governing the use of electronic meetings. Please make sure that your rule complies with section 52-4-207.
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Can a student be preapproved for extended absence?
Yes, a local school board shall approve the absence if the local school board determines that the extended absence will not adversely impact the school-age minor's education.
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Is a charter school required to follow all state law?
Yes unless a waiver has been applied for or a waiver has been already granted in 53A-1a-511.
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What does every discipline policy need to include?
• provisions governing student conduct, safety, and welfare; • standards and procedures for dealing with students who cause disruption in the classroom, on school grounds, on school vehicles, or in connection with school-related activities or events; • procedures for the development of remedial discipline plans for students who cause a disruption • procedures for the use of reasonable and necessary physical restraint or force in dealing with disruptive students, consistent with Section 53A-11-802; • standards and procedures for dealing with student conduct in locations other than those referred to in Subsection (2), if the conduct threatens harm or does harm to: the school, school property, a person associated with the school, property associated with a person described in Subsection (5)(c); • procedures for the imposition of disciplinary sanctions, including suspension and expulsion; • specific provisions, consistent with Section 53A-15-603, for preventing and responding to gang-related activities in the school, on school grounds, on school vehicles, or in connection with school-related activities or events; and • standards and procedures for dealing with habitual disruptive student behavior in accordance with the provisions of this part.
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Is it illegal to spit on the steps of a school in Cheyenne Wyoming?
Yes
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When do most charter schools violate open meeting law?
Boards usually violate open meeting law when they have a closed session. Closed sessions may only be held for certain reasons. • The recording of a closed meeting shall be complete and unedited from the commencement of the meeting through adjournment of the meeting. • The recording of the closed meeting shall include the date, time, place of the meeting, the names of members present and absent, and the names of all other present at the meeting. • Minutes and recordings of the closed meeting shall be retained permanently. (these are protected under 52-4-304) • The person presiding shall sign a sworn statement affirming that the sole purpose for closing the meeting was to discuss a legally allowed purpose.
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What can happen to a parent of a truant student?
They can be charged with a class B misdemeanor for failure to meet the requirements of the notice of compulsory education, including failure to prevent the school-aged child from being absent without a valid excuse five or more times during the remainder of the year.
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What are the requirements of charter schools
• A charter school shall be nonsectarian in its programs, admission policies, employment practices, and operations. • A charter school may not charge tuition or fees, except those fees normally charged by other public schools. • A charter school shall meet all applicable federal, state, and local health, safety, and civil rights requirements. • A charter school shall make the same annual reports required of other public schools under this title, including an annual financial audit report. • A charter school shall be accountable to its chartering entity for performance as provided in the school's charter • A charter school may not advocate unlawful behavior • Except as provided in Section 53A-1-515, a charter school shall be organized and managed under Title 16, Chapter 6a, Utah Revised Nonprofit Corporation Act, after its authorization. • A charter school shall provide adequate liability and other appropriate insurance. • Beginning on July 1, 2007, a charter school shall submit any lease, lease-purchase agreement, or other contract or agreement relating to the charter school's facilities or financing the charter school facilities to its chartering entity for review and advice prior to the charter school entering into the lease, agreement, or contract. • A charter school may not employ an educator whose license has been suspended or revoked
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Are there alternatives to suspension or expulsion?
yes • a student can remain in school under an in-school suspension program • a program allowing the parent or guardian, with the consent of the student's teacher or teachers, to attend class with the student for a period of time specified by a designated school official.
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Can you keep an ice-cream cone in your pocket at school?
If you would like to it is not illegal in Utah; however it is illegal in several other states such as Alabama and New York.
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