Get the sample language you need to meet student and parent notification requirements
Use this researched and regularly updated model student handbook as the basis for a school’s student handbook. The fully annotated printed handbook includes the most current information concerning laws which require notice to students and parents. Sample language can be used or modified to meet each school’s need.
The Model Student Handbook includes
- Statements and notices required by law
- Editorial notes on how to use this information
- Suggestions on how to correlate items with district policy
Model Student Handbook sample pages (174k pdf) – Preview a small sample of pages from OSBA’s Model Student Handbook.
After purchase, this material is available online through the OSBA portal. An annual revision (reflects only revisions from the previous year) is available if a handbook was purchased the previous year.
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- Choose Subscriptions/Downloads
- Choose the category Download
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- Check the box(es) for desired items on the right
- Finish by clicking “Add Registration to Cart” and complete checkout
OSBA also offers a money-saving Handbook & Calendar Combination Pack which includes the Model Staff Handbook, Model Student Handbook and the Key Dates and Activities Calendar.
Contents of the Model Student Handbook
- Admission Alternative Education Programs
- Alternative Education Programs — Establishment Alternative Education Notification
- Animal Dissection
- Asbestos
- Assemblies
- Assignments of Students to Classes
- Assignments of Students to Schools
- Attendance
- Awards and Honors
- Class Ranking
- Clubs and Organizations
- Communicable Diseases
- Computer Use Conduct
- Conferences
- Counseling Credit by Examination
- Credit for Proficiency
- Cyberbullying
- Damage to District Property
- Dances/Social Events
- Discipline/Due Process
- Distance/Online Learning
- Distribution of Material
- Dress and Grooming
- Drills – Fire, Earthquake and Other Emergency Drills
- Drug, Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention Program
- Emergency Medical Treatment
- Emergency School Closing Information
- Expanded Options Program
- Extracurricular Activities
- Fees, Fines and Damages
- Field Trips
- Flag Salute
- Foreign Exchange Students
- Fund Raising
- Gangs
- Grade Classification
- Grade Reduction/Credit Denial
- Graduation Exercises
- Graduation Requirements
- Hazing/Harassment/Intimidation/Bullying/Cyberbullying/Menacing
- Homeless Students
- Homework Immunization Infection Control/HIV, HBV and AIDS
- Insurance
- Local Wellness
- Lockers
- Lost and Found
- Lunch/Breakfast Program
- Media Access to Students
- Medicine at School
- Parental Involvement
- Parental Rights
- Personal Communication Devices and Social Media
- Physical Examinations
- Posters
- Program Exemptions
- Promotion, Retention and Placement of Students
- Release of Students from School
- Reports to Students and Parents
- Searches and Questioning
- Senior Trips
- Special Programs
- Student/Parent Complaints
- Student Education Records
- Student Offices and Elections
- Student Schedules
- Summer School
- Supervision of Students
- Talented and Gifted Program
- Threats
- Tobacco-Free Environment
- Traffic Safety
- Transcript Evaluation
- Transfer of Students
- Transportation of Students
- Travel Services
- Vehicles on Campus
- Visitors
