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Dallastown Area School District

This Index is designed to quickly direct the reader to the individual section(s) dealing with a specific topic. The terminology used in the Policy Manual 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.  Example:  Employment Contract includes Administrative, Professional and Classified Employees
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POLICY MANUAL INDEX POLICY MANUAL NUMBER
ABSENCE, LEAVE OF
Administrative employees 335, 336, 338, 339
Classified employees 535, 536, 539, 542
Professional employees 435, 436, 437, 439, 442
ADMINISTRATIVE EMPLOYEES 300
Abolishing positions 310
Assignment and transfer 309
Bereavement leave 336
Complaint policy 326
Creating positions 301
Disciplinary procedures 317
Dress and grooming 325
Drug and substance abuse 351
Employment 104, 302, 303
Employment contract 308
Evaluation 312, 313
Exit interviews 303.1
Family leaves 335, 335AR, 335ARATT1, 335ARATT2
Freedom of speech 320
Harassment 348, 348Form
HIV infection 314.1
Job related expenses 331
Management team 327
Medical leaves 335, 335AR, 335ARATT1, 335ARATT2
Nontenured administrators 316
Outside activities 319, 321
Personal leave 336
Personnel files 324
Physical examination and communicable diseases 314
Political activities 321
Professional development 333
Religious leave 336
Sabbatical leave 338
Sick leave 334
Suspension and furloughs 311
Tobacco use 323
Uncompensated leave 339
Vacation 337
Weapons on school property 352
Workers' compensation 346
ADULT EDUCATION 125
ASSIGNMENT AND TRANSFER
Administrative employees 309
Classified employees 509
Professional employees 409
ATHLETICS 122, 123, 211, 618
ATTENDANCE
General 204
Pregnant students 234
BOARD OF SCHOOL DIRECTORS (see School Board Procedures And Goals)
Committees 005
Meetings 006, 903
Membership 004
Officers 005
Policies 009
Voting 006
BONDING 005, 811
BUDGET
Adoption 604
Planning 602
Preparation 603
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS (see Property)  
BULLYING/CYBERBULLYING 249, 815
CALENDAR 803
CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION 115
CHILD/STUDENT ABUSE 806
CLASS SIZE 126
CLASSIFIED EMPLOYEES 500
Assignment and transfer 509
Bereavement leave 536
Childrearing leave 539
Complaint policy 526
Creating positions 501
Discipline 517
Dress and grooming 525
Drug and substance abuse 551
Employment 104, 504, 508
Employment contract 508
Evaluation 512
Exit interviews 504.1
Family leaves 535, 535AR, 535ARATT1, 535ARATT2
Harassment 548, 548Form
HIV infection 514.1
Job related expenses 531
Jury duty 542
Layoffs 511
Medical leaves 535, 535AR, 535ARATT1, 535ARATT2
Outside activities 519
Overtime 530
Paid holidays 543
Part-time personnel 541
Personal leave 536
Personnel files 524
Physical examination and communicable diseases 514
Political activities 521
Professional growth guidelines 533
Religious leave 536
Short-term employees 505
Sick leave 534
Substitutes 505
Suspensions 511
Tobacco use 523
Vacation 537
Wage and salary determination 528
Weapons on school property 552
Workers' compensation 539
Working periods 532
CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES 122, 228, 229, 618
COMMUNITY 900
Booster organizations 915
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/guardian relations 908, 918
PTO/PTA 915
Public attendance at school events 904
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
Scholarships, awards 913
School visitors 907
Student participation, nonschool activities 913
Title I complaint procedure 906
Title I parent involvement 918
COMPLAINTS
Administrative employees 326
Classified employees 526
Discrimination 103, 103Form, 103.1, 104, 104Form
NCLB complaints 906
Public complaints 906
Student complaints 219
COURSES OF STUDY 107
CURRICULUM (see Programs)
DISCIPLINE
Administrative employees 317
Classified employees 517
Professional employees 417
Students 113.1, 218, 218AG, 218.1, 233, 249
DRESS AND GROOMING
Administrative employees 325
Classified employees 525
Professional employees 425
Students 221
DRUG/SUBSTANCE ABUSE
Administrative employees 351
Classified employees 551
Professional employees 451
Students 113.1, 227
Transportation personnel 810.2
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS 805
EMPLOYEES (see Administrative 300; Classified 500; Professional 400)
EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT
Administrative employees 308
Classified employees 508
Professional employees 408
EVALUATION
Administrative employees 313
Classified employees 512
Professional employees 412
Superintendent 312
Temporary professional employees 413
EXPENSES
Board members 004
Employees 331, 431, 531
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES 123, 229, 618
FACILITIES (see Property)
FIELD TRIPS 121
FINANCES 600
Bank accounts 608
Budget 602, 603, 604
Construction change orders 610
Delinquent taxes 606
District audit - public 619
Federal fiscal compliance 626, 626AR
Fund balance 620
GASB statement 34 622, 622ATT
Interscholastic athletic fund 618
Investment of district funds 609
Objectives 601
Payment of claims 616
Payroll authorization 614
Payroll deduction 615
Petty cash 617
Preliminary, proposed budget 603
Procurement cards 625
Purchases 610, 611, 612
Purchasing, cooperative 613
Special purpose funds 618
Student activity funds 618
Tax collection 606
Tax levy 605
Taxpayer bill of rights 621, 621ATT
Title I fiscal requirements 626, 626AR
Tuition income 607
FIRE DRILLS 805
FLAG SALUTE 807
FOOD SERVICES 808, 808.1
GRADING 213, 215
GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS 217
GUIDANCE COUNSELING 112
HOME EDUCATION PROGRAMS 137, 137AR, 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
LOCKER SEARCH 226
MAINTENANCE 703, 704
MATERNITY LEAVE 335, 335AR, 335ARATT1, 335ARATT2, 435, 435AR, 435ARATT1, 435ARATT2, 535, 535AR, 535ARATT1, 535ARATT2
MEDIA RELATIONS 911
MEDICATIONS 210, 210.1, 210.1ATT
MOTOR VEHICLES 223
NONRESIDENT STUDENTS 202
OPENING EXERCISES 807
OPERATIONS 800
Acceptable use of technology/internet 815
Automated external defibrillator (AED) 822
Bomb threats 805
Bonding 811
Child/student abuse 806
Computerized personal information breach 830
Contracted services 818
Copyright materials 814, 814AR, 814AR1
Cyberbullying 249, 815
Emergency evacuation 805
Emergency preparedness 805
Food service 808
Free/reduced-price meals 808.1
Insurance 812, 813
Internet 815
Litigation hold 800, 800AR, 800AR2
Opening exercises/flag displays 807
Organization 802
Pandemic 805
Property insurance 812
Records management 800, 800AR, 800AR1, 800AR2
Records retention 800, 800AR1
Records, public 801, 801AR, 801AR1, 801AR2
School calendar 803
School day 804
State mandate waivers 825
Student abuse 806
Transportation 810
Transportation personnel, drug/alcohol testing 810.2
Video cameras, buses 810.1
PAYROLL
Authorization 614
Deductions 615
PERSONNEL FILES (see Records)
PETTY CASH 617
PHYSICAL EXAMINATIONS AND COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
Administrative employees 314, 314.1, 335
Classified employees 514, 514.1, 535
Professional employees 414, 414.1, 435
Students 203, 203.2, 209
POSITIONS
Abolishing 310, 410, 511
Creating 301, 401, 501
POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS 205
PREGNANT STUDENTS 234
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES 400
Abolishing positions 410
Assignment and transfer 409
Bereavement leave 436
Childrearing leave 439
Creating positions 401
Disciplinary procedures 417
Dress and grooming 425
Drug and substance abuse 451
Employment 404
Employment contract 408
Evaluation 411, 412, 413
Exit interviews 404.1
Family leaves 435, 435AR, 435ARATT1, 435ARATT2
Freedom of speech 420
Gifts 422
Harassment 448, 448Form
HIV infection 414.1
Job related expenses 431
Jury duty 442
Medical leaves 435, 435AR, 435ARATT1, 435ARATT2
Military leave 437, 437AR
Nontenured staff 416
Outside activities 419, 421
Personal leave 436
Personnel files 424
Physical examinations and communicable diseases 414
Political activities 421
Professional development 433
Religious leave 436
Responsibility for student welfare 440
Sabbatical leave 438
Salary determination 428
Sick leave 434
Student teachers 407
Suspensions and furloughs 409, 411, 412
Tardiness 418
Tobacco use 423
Weapons on school property 452
Workers' compensation 446
Working periods 432
PROGRAMS 100
Academic standards 102
Adoption of textbooks 108
Adoption, planned instruction 107
Adult education 125
Affirmative action programs 103, 103Form
Alternatives to dissection 105.3
Assessment of educational program 127
Behavior support plan 113.2
Career and technical education 115
Charter schools 140, 140ATT, 140.1
Child find 113
Class size 126
Co-curricular activities 122, 228, 229, 618
Confidentiality, special education records 113
Current events 119
Curriculum development 105
Curriculum review by parents and students 105.1
Discipline of students with disabilities 113.1
Discrimination 103, 103Form, 103.1, 104, 104Form
Educational evaluations, special education 113.4
Equivalence between schools 103
Exemption from instruction 105.2
Extracurricular activities 123
Extracurricular participation by charter/cyber charter students 140.1
Extracurricular participation by home education students 137.1
Field trips 121
Functional behavioral assessments 113.4
Gifted students 114
Guidance counseling 112
Guides, planned instruction 106
Home education programs 137, 137AR, 137.1
Homebound instruction 117, 204, 234
Homework 130
Human development program 120
Independent educational evaluations 113.4
Independent study 118
Instructional supplies 110
Interscholastic athletics 122, 123, 137.1
Lesson plans 111
Limited English Proficiency Program 138
Migrant students 142
Nondiscrimination 103, 103Form, 103.1, 104, 104Form
Online instruction 141
Persistently dangerous schools, standards 143
Philosophy of education 101
Recording of meetings, special education 113
Request for reconsideration of resource materials 109.1, ATT1, ATT2, ATT3
Resource materials 109
Restraints 113.2
Screening, special education 113.4
Seclusion 113.2
Section 504 students 103.1
Service agreements 103.1
Special education, IDEA 113
Strategic plan 100
Student services 146
Surrogate parents 113.3
Tutoring 116, 204
Victims of violent crimes, standards 144
PROPERTY 700
Building security 709
Disposal of obsolete equipment 706.1
Facilities planning 701
Gifts, grants, donations 702
Insurance 812
Inventory and records 706
Lending of school equipment 708
Maintenance 704
Naming of school facilities 702.1
Pest management 716
Property records 706
Protection of property 713
Safety 705
Sanitary management 703
Use of facilities by staff 710
Use of school facilities 707, 707AR, 707ARATTA, 707ARATTB, 707ARATTC
PUBLIC RELATIONS (see Community)
PUPILS 200
Admission of students 201, 203, 209
Assessment of student progress 213
Assignment within district 206
Asthma inhalers, possession/use 210.1, 210.1ATT
Attendance 204, 234
Bicycles and motor vehicles 223
Bullying 249
Care of school property 224
Class rank 214, 216
Confidential communications of students 207
Controlled substances/paraphernalia 227
Cyberbullying 249, 815
Discipline 218, 218AG, 218.1, 233
Discipline records 216.1
Distribution of materials by students 220
Dress and grooming 221
Early student withdrawal to attend college 241
Enrollment 200, 200AR, 200AR1
Epinephrine auto-injectors, possession/use 210.1
Expression 220
Fundraising 229, 618
Gifted students 114
Graduation requirements 217
Harassment 248, 248Form
Hazing 247
Health examinations/screenings 209
Hearings 219
HIV infection 203.2
Hold harmless - medications 210
Homeless students 251
Immunization 203
Locker search 226
Medications 210, 210.1, 210.1ATT
Nonresident students 202
Nutrition 246
Paraphernalia 227
Parent of record 238
Participation in school affairs 232
Police 225
Postgraduate students 205
Posting of materials by students 220
Pregnant students 234
Promotion and retention 215
Public performance by students 230
Records 216, 216.1
Reporting student progress 212
Searches 226
Social events and class trips 231
Student accident insurance 211
Student assistance program (SAP) 236
Student government 228
Student recruitment 250
Student rights 235
Surveys 235
Suspension and expulsion 233
Terroristic threats 218.1
Tobacco use 222
Transfer of discipline records 216.1
Twins/higher order multiples, placement 206
Universal precautions 203.1
Weapons 218, 218AG
Wellness 246
Withdrawal 208
PURCHASES
Budgeted 611
Cooperative 613
Not budgeted 612
Subject to bid 610
RECORDS
Administrative employees 324
Classified employees 524
Computerized personal information breach 830
Litigation hold 800, 800AR, 800AR2
Professional employees 424
Public records 801, 801AR, 801AR1, 801AR2
Records management 800, 800AR, 800AR1, 800AR2
Records retention 800, 800AR1
Students 216, 216.1
RELIGIOUS HOLIDAYS 204, 336, 436, 536
SAFETY 705
SALARY 327, 428, 528
SCHEDULES
Classified employees 532
Professional employees 432
School calendar 803
School day 804
SCHOOL BOARD PROCEDURES AND GOALS 000
Authority and power 002
Code of conduct 011
Distribution of policy 007
Expenses 004
Functions 003
Gifts 010
Meetings 006, 903
Membership 004
Name and classification 001
Organization 005
Policies 009
Standards, effective school governance 011
Teleconferencing 006.1
Use of email communication 011AR
Voting 006
SEARCHES 226
SEX EDUCATION 120
SICK LEAVE
Administrative employees 334, 335
Classified employees 534, 535
Professional employees 434, 435
SMOKING/TOBACCO USE
Administrative employees 323
Classified employees 523
Professional employees 423
Public 904
Students 222
SPECIAL EDUCATION  
Aversive techniques 113.2
Behavior support 113.2
Child find/outreach 113
Classroom visitations 907
Confidentiality 113, 216
Disciplinary placements 113.1, 113.2
Disciplinary placements - weapons, drugs, serious bodily injury 113.1
Due process hearings 113.1
Evaluations 113, 113.4
Functional behavioral assessments 113.4
Independent educational evaluations 113.4
Recording meetings 113
Referral to law enforcement 113.2
Restraints - physical/mechanical 113.2
Screening 113.4
Seclusion 113.2
Special Education Plan 113
Surrogate Parents 113.3
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, 429
SUPERINTENDENT
Assistant superintendent 302, 312
Employment 302
Evaluation 312
SUSPENSIONS AND EXPULSIONS OF STUDENTS 233
SUSPENSIONS AND FURLOUGHS
Administrative employees 311
Classified employees 511
Professional employees 411
TAXES
Collection 606
Levy 605
TEXTBOOKS
Adoption 108
Care of 224
Lending 708
TRANSPORTATION 810, 810.1, 810.2
TRAVEL REIMBURSEMENT
Administrative employees 331
Classified employees 531
Professional employees 431
School directors 004
TUITION 202, 607
TUTORIAL INSTRUCTION 116, 204
VACATION
Administrative employees 337
Classified employees 537
VISITORS 907
WAGE AND SALARY
Administrative employees 328
Classified employees 528
Professional employees 428
WEAPONS 113.1, 218, 218AG
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