A Reference Guide of the Bakersfield City School District

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Rights and Responsibilitiesexplosive; (g) robbery or extortion; (h) sale of a controlled substance; and (i) sexual assault or sexual battery.Transportation is not provided to transfer students under these provisions. The offer to transfer will be made by theschool to the parent/legal guardian of the victim within fourteen (14) days after the incident. The parent/legal guardianmay choose to stay at the home school or choose to transfer to another school in the District with room available.Reference: Title 20 United States Code Section 6316Behavioral, Mental or Emotional Evaluation of a StudentThe Superintendent or designee shall obtain informed written parental consent before testing any student for abehavioral, mental or emotional evaluation. A general consent, including medical consent used to approve admissionto or involvement in a special education or remedial program or regular school activity, shall not constitute writtenconsent for these purposes.Education Codes 49091.10, 49091.12, 49091.14, 49091.18, 51101; Board Policy 300.48Parent InvolvementThe Governing Board (“Board of Education”) recognizes that parents/guardians are their children's first and mostinfluential teachers and that continued parental involvement in the education of children contributes greatly to studentachievement and a positive school environment. The Governing Board expects strong parental involvement to improvestudent achievement and school performance.To ensure that parents/guardians of students participating in Title I programs are provided with opportunities to beinvolved in their children's education, the Superintendent or designee:1. Shall involve parents/guardians of participating students in the joint development of the Title I local educationalagency (LEA) plan pursuant to Title 20 United States Code Section 6312 and the process of school review andimprovement pursuant to Title 20 United States Code Section 6316 (Title 20 Title 20 United States Code, Section6318).2. Shall provide coordination, technical assistance, and other support necessary to assist Title I schools in planning andimplementing effective parent involvement activities to improve student academic achievement and schoolperformance (Title 20 United States Code Section 6318).3. Shall build the capacity of schools and parents/guardians for strong parent involvement (Title 20 United States CodeSection 6318).4. Shall coordinate and integrate Title I parent involvement strategies with the pre-kindergarten program and otherdistrict programs (Title 20 United States Code Section 6318).5. Shall conduct, with involvement of parents/guardians, an annual evaluation of the content and effectiveness of theparent involvement policy in improving the academic quality of the schools served by Title I (Title 20 United StatesCode Section 6318).6. Shall involve parents/guardians in the activities of schools served by Title I (Title 20 United States Code Section6318).School-Level Policies for Title I SchoolsAt each school receiving Title I funds, a written school-level policy on parent involvement shall be developed jointly withand agreed upon by parents/guardians of participating students. Such school-level policy shall describe the means bywhich the school will (Title 20 United States Code Section 6318):1. Convene an annual meeting, at a convenient time, to which all parents/guardians of participating students shall beinvited and encouraged to attend, in order to inform parents/guardians of their school’s participation in Title I andto explain Title I requirements and the right of parents/guardians to be involved;40
2. Offer a flexible number of meetings, such as meetings in the morning or evening, for which related transportation,child care, and/or home visits may be provided as such services relate to parent involvement;3. Involve parents/guardians in an organized, ongoing, and timely way in the planning, review, and improvement ofTitle I programs, including the planning, review, and improvement of the school's parent involvement policy and, ifapplicable, the joint development of the plan for school wide and targeted assistance programs pursuant to Title 20United States Code Section 6314.4. Provide the parents/guardians of participating students timely information about Title I programs and a descriptionand explanation of the school’s curriculum, forms of academic assessment used to measure student progress, andthe proficiency levels students are expected to meet.5. If the school wide program plan is not satisfactory to the parents/guardians of participating students, submit anyparent/guardian comments when the school makes the plan available to the district.6. Jointly develop with the parents/guardians of participating students a school-parent compact that outlines howparents/guardians, the entire school staff, and students will share responsibility for improved student academicachievement and the means by which the school and parents/guardians will build a partnership to help studentsachieve state standards.7. Build the capacity of the school and parents/guardians for strong parent involvement by implementing the activitiesdescribed above.8. To the extent practicable, provide full opportunities for the participation of parents/guardians with limited Englishproficiency, parents/guardians with disabilities, and parents/guardians of migratory children, including providinginformation and school reports required under Title 20 United States Code Section 6311(h), in a format andlanguage such parents understand.Each school may amend the school-level parent involvement policy to meet the above requirements (Title 20 UnitedStates Code Section 6318).Each school’s parent involvement policy shall be made available to the local community and distributed to parents/guardians of participating students in an understandable and uniform format and, to the extent practicable, provided ina language the parents/guardians can understand (Title 20 United States Code Section 6318).Education Code 51101; Board Policy 400.36, 400.46, 300.55Rights and ResponsibilitiesNon-Title I SchoolsThe Superintendent or designee shall develop and implement strategies applicable to each school that does not receivefederal Title I funds to encourage the involvement and support of parents/guardians in the education of their children.Non-Title I schools shall at minimum engage parents/guardians positively in their children's education by helping themdevelop skills to use at home that support their children's academic efforts at school and their children's development asresponsible members of society.Please call the Parent Involvement Program at 631-4763 for additional information about parent involvement.School Accountability Report Card (SARC)The School Accountability Report Card (SARC) was established by Proposition 98, an initiative passed by Californiavoters. The report card provides a variety of data to allow the public to evaluate and compare schools as specified.The SARC is available online at www.bcsd.com or the school office can provide a copy. Data definitions for SARConline are at http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/ac/sa.Education Codes 35256, 35258, 33126; Board Policy 300.5141
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