Bell Elementary School students were asked to stand up and jump during the opening rap song of their Realize Anything’s Possible (R.A.P.) assembly.
Relations with Parents' Organizations
File: KMA
School-Community Associations
The school district recognizes the parent-teacher-student associations, and parent clubs as an integral part of the school community. The district looks to these organizations as a means of promoting a finer educational program in the district by achieving better understanding among the pupils, the parents, and the teachers. The district shall give every encouragement within its legal authority to maintain strong, enthusiastic, industrious parent-teacher-student associations.
Through school affiliated parent organizations, schools are able to offer a variety of after-school enrichment programs and/or events to benefit students and families. While these events may be sponsored by, funded through, and coordinated by PTSAs, they are planned in cooperation with the school, take place in the school, are promoted by the school, and involved students from the school. Therefore, principals are required to ensure that the events/programs are of high quality and align with the school and district goals and policies. PTSA presidents and principals should work collaboratively to develop offerings for their schools’ events/programs and principals must approve the nature of the event/program and its specific content before events are planned and contracts are signed with vendors.
The board recognizes a coordinating organization of parents-teachers-students called the Lake Washington PTSA Council. This council, operating under the charter of the Washington Congress of Parents, Teachers and Students coordinates the activities of the local parent-teacher-student groups within the school district who look to the council for leadership and direction.
Parent-teacher-student organizations not affiliated with the Washington Congress of Parent-Teacher-Student Associations also are recognized by the board, provided they represent the majority of parents-teachers-students in their respective school service areas and adopt and file in the principal's office a constitution and by-laws which ensure the basic tenets of representative government, meetings of the membership, observe open meeting practices, nondiscrimination, and other requirements set forth by law, policy, and regulations governing this school district.
Adopted:
06/05/67
Updated:
08/01/11
Revised:
12/02/74
05/07/90
CROSS REF.:
Parents' Rights and Responsibilities (KMAB)
These policies cover district fiscal affairs and the management of district funds. The Facilities Development section contains statements relating to the financing of school construction.
Policies in this section govern non-instructional services and programs, including business management, such as safety, buildings and their management (not construction), transportation and food services.
Policies concerning school construction, remodeling and modernizing, temporary facilities and facilities retirement plans.
The personnel policies are divided in three main subdivisions: topics that pertain to all employees; policies that pertain to professional personnel, including administrators, who must hold educational certification by the state to serve in their positions; and policies pertaining to all other personnel.
These policies pertain to the process of negotiating with staff units recognized by the school board.
Policies on instructional program: basic programs, special programs, activities programs, instructional resources and academic achievement.
Policies concerning students are found here: admissions, attendance, rights and responsibilities, conduct, discipline and health and welfare services. Policies pertaining to the curriculum, instruction of students, and extracurricular programs are in the Instruction section.
This section governs the district's relationship with other education agencies: other school districts, regional or service districts, private schools, colleges and universities, educational research organizations and state and national education agencies.