Community Involvement

Parent organizations

Each district school has a parent organization, which invites and welcomes parent membership, as well as their help and support. Many parent-sponsored school activities are held during the school year. Membership information may be obtained by contacting the school office.

Volunteers

A number of adults are utilized as volunteer helpers in the classrooms and for other school-related events that arise during the school year. Although no monetary remuneration can be given for such volunteer services, those who have helped in the past have found it rewarding.

Those interested in serving as a volunteer should inform the school office or the classroom teacher, or watch for notifications listing specific needs. All community and parent volunteers are asked to visit the Volunteer Program website and complete the application.

Visitors

In October of 2022, the district introduced a visitor management system.

Upon entering a district building, visitors will be asked to present an ID, which will be scanned and entered into our system. If a parent, guardian, or other visitor is undocumented or for any reason does not have a US government-issued ID, another form of identification can be provided. Once entry is approved, a badge that includes a photo, the name of the visitor, time, date, and purpose or destination of the visit will be issued.

Parents are welcomed and are encouraged to visit the school. The district will allow a parent/guardian reasonable access to educational facilities, personnel, classrooms, and buildings to observe their child in the school setting or to visit an educational placement or program proposed for their child.

The district will also provide an independent educational evaluator, or a qualified professional retained by or on behalf of a parent/guardian or child, reasonable access to the district’s educational facilities, personnel, classrooms, and buildings and to the student in order to conduct an evaluation of the child, the child’s performance, the child’s current educational program, placement, services, or environment, or any educational program, placement, services or environment proposed for the child.

All individuals who visit a district school for these purposes must abide by the district’s Procedures for Classroom Observation, which are available on the district website or can be requested from the principal’s office.

Room visitations, if desired, need to be scheduled with the teachers in advance. Items brought to the school for the students are to be brought to the office and office personnel will arrange for delivery to the student.

Accommodating Individuals with Disabilities (Board Policy 8:70)

Individuals with disabilities shall be provided an opportunity to participate in all school-sponsored services, programs, or activities on an equal basis to those without disabilities and will not be subject to illegal discrimination. Where necessary, the district may provide to persons with disabilities separate or different aids, benefits, or services from, but as effective as, those provided to others.

The district will provide auxiliary aids and services where necessary to afford individuals with disabilities equal opportunity to participate in or enjoy the benefits of a service, program, or activity.

Each service, program, or activity operated in existing facilities shall be readily accessible to, and useable by, individuals with disabilities. New construction and alterations to facilities existing before January 26, 1992, will be accessible when viewed in their entirety.

The Superintendent or designee is designated the Title II Coordinator and, in that capacity, is directed to:

1. Oversee the district’s compliance efforts, recommend necessary modifications to the Board, and maintain the district’s final Title II self-evaluation document and keep it available for public inspection, for at least 3 years after its completion date.
2. Institute plans to make information regarding Title II’s protection available to any interested party.

Individuals with disabilities should notify the Superintendent or building principal if they have a disability which will require special assistance or services and, if so, what services are required. This notification should occur as far as possible before the school sponsored function, program, or meeting.

Individuals with disabilities may allege a violation of this policy or federal law by reporting it to the Superintendent or designated Title II Coordinator, or by filing a grievance under the Uniform Grievance Procedure.