The board will provide a student guidance and counseling program.  The guidance counselor will be certified with the Iowa Department of Education and hold the qualifications required by the board.  The guidance and counseling program will serve grades kindergarten through twelve.  The program will assist students with their personal, educational, and career development.  The program will be coordinated with the education program and involve licensed employees.

NOTE:  This is a mandated policy and reflects the educational standards.

Legal Reference:  Iowa Code § 280.14; 622.10 (2013).
                                      281 I.A.C. 12.3(11).

Cross Reference:  506    Student Records
                                      603    Instructional Curriculum
                                      604.4 Program for At-Risk Students

Approved:  Feb. 11, 1985, May 17, 2021    
Reviewed:  Aug. 24, 2005, Jul 27, 2015, April 12, 2021      
Revised:   June 12, 1989            

Health services is coordinated with the health education and physical education curriculum.  The program is designed to help each student protect, improve and maintain physical, emotional and social well-being.  Areas to be considered include, but are not limited to:

•       Environmental health and safety;
•       Emergency health procedures and responsibilities;
•       Health promotion;
•       Communicable disease prevention and control;
•       Staffing for the school health program;
•       Administering of prescription medication;
•       Acute or chronic health problems;
•       Health assessment and screening;
•       Record keeping; and
•       Program evaluation.

Nurses and other medical employees employed by or requested to conduct services for the board will hold and maintain a current Iowa license and meet the requirements of the Iowa Department of Education if required by the school district.  In addition to the health services provided in the curriculum, the school district will provide the following district-wide health services:

•       Annual vision screening tests;
•       Annual audiometer screening tests;
•       Annual spinal screening;
•       Annual height and weight measurement; and
•       Furnish evidence of immunization for students to the State Board of Health within the first thirty days of the school year.

The services listed above will be provided in conjunction with state public health officials and local hospitals.

Legal Reference:  No Child Left Behind, Title II, Sec. 1061, P.L. 107-110 (2002).
                                           42 U.S.C. §§ 12101 et seq. (2012).
                                           34 C.F.R. pt. 99, 104, 200, 300 et seq. (2012)
                                           29 U.S.C. § 794(a) (2012)
                                           28 C.F.R. 35
                                           20 U.S.C. 1232g § 1400 6301 et seq. (2012).
                                               Iowa Code §§ 22.7, 139A.3. .8, .21; 143.1, 152, 256.7(24), .11, 280.23 (2013).
                                           281 I.A.C. 12.3(4), (7), (11); 12.4(12); 12.8; 41.405.
                                           282 I.A.C. 15.3(14); 22.
                                           641 I.A.C. 7.
                                           655 I.A.C. 6, 6.3(1), 6.3(6), 6.6(1), 7.

Cross Reference:  501.4 Entrance - Admissions
                                      507    Student Health and Well-Being

Approved:  Feb. 11, 1985, Sep 21, 2015, May 18, 2020, May 17, 2021          
Reviewed:  Aug. 24, 2005, Jul 27, 2015, April 13, 2020, April 12, 2021      
Revised:  June 12, 1989, Jul 27, 2015, April 13, 2020      

To supervise the school facility, there will be a district employee or a person designated by the District available while students wait at the school building after a school activity.

It is the responsibility of the supervisor to ensure that the students and other individuals in the school building have valid and clear purpose for being in the facility at that time.  If there is no valid and clear purpose for the student or other individual to be in the building, the supervisor will require them to leave the school building at once.

The superintendent will develop rules and regulations to implement and enforce this policy.

Approved:  Oct. 12, 1987, Sep 21, 2015, May 17, 2021          
Reviewed:  Aug. 24, 2005, Jul 27, 2015, April 12, 2021      
Revised:  Jul 27, 2015