Title 38, Educational Institutions.

(a) The Chancellor shall establish procedures to review retention decisions made pursuant to this chapter or as set forth in the DCMR and may review all retention decisions made pursuant to the procedures. (b) The Chancellor shall establish a process, including deadlines, to allo…

(a)(1) Each student retained for the failure to meet the promotion criteria specified in the DCMR shall attend the summer school session immediately following the school year in which the student was retained, unless specifically excused by the principal or the Chancellor. (2) A …

The Chancellor, pursuant to § 38-174(c)(5), shall issue rules to implement the provisions of this chapter.

For the purposes of this chapter, the term: (a)(1) "Advisory Committee" means the body established pursuant to § 38-785.04. (2) "DCPS" means the District of Columbia Public Schools. (3) "LEA" means the local education agency, which is DCPS or any individual public charter school …

(a) The District of Columbia Education Research Practice Partnership shall consist of an independent, non-governmental entity selected through the competitive process as established in § 38-785.03 and subject to a master research services agreement entered into with the District …

(a)(1) No later than 90 days after March 28, 2019, the Mayor shall draft a Notice of Invitation ("Notice") for an education research practice partnership for the purpose of receiving proposals from an independent, non-governmental entity that shall be responsible for conducting e…

(a)(1) The Advisory Committee shall be established to provide intellectual guidance from diverse perspectives to the research projects of the Partnership. Additionally, the Advisory Committee shall help formulate Partnership policy. (2) The initial Advisory Committee shall be com…

(a) Upon creation of the Partnership, and every 5 years thereafter, the Advisory Committee, in consultation with the Partnership, shall establish a 5-year research agenda. (b)(1) Upon the initiation of a research project, the Partnership shall inform the Advisory Committee and se…

There is hereby created in the public schools of the District of Columbia a Department of Food Services, which Department, under the direction and control of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia, hereinafter referred to as the “Board,” is hereby authorized to conduc…

For carrying out the purposes of this chapter, the Board is empowered: (1) To establish in the Department of Food Services an Office of Central Management consisting of a Director and assistant directors of Food Services, whose compensation shall be fixed in accordance with the D…

Service rendered by any person for salary or wages as an employee of any cafeteria or lunchroom operated in the public school buildings of the District during any period prior to the date when such cafeteria or lunchroom is placed under the Office of Central Management shall, if …

(a) There is established as a special fund the District of Columbia Public Schools Food Services Fund ("Fund"), which shall be administered by the Chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools in accordance with subsection (c) of this section. (b) All revenue derived from…

Appropriations are authorized for the payment of compensation for all personal services necessary for the operation of the Department of Food Services and for the acquisition, maintenance, and replacement of equipment for use in that operation.

Insofar as the Board shall conduct a school lunch program under the authority of §§ 38-801 to 38-807, it shall be considered a “school” within the meaning of the National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. § 1751 et seq.), and all funds to which it may thus become entitled as a particip…

The State Education Office of the District of Columbia is authorized: (1) to enter into a contract or contracts from time to time with the United States Department of Agriculture for the distribution to schools and to public and charitable institutions of commodities made availab…

Appropriations are hereby authorized to enable the Board of Education to carry out the contracts and programs authorized by § 38-808.

For the purposes of this chapter, the term: (1) "Alternative breakfast serving model" means a model of serving breakfast: (A) Such as breakfast in the classroom or breakfast on grab-and-go carts, in which breakfast is: (i) Offered in one or more locations with high student traffi…

(a) Repealed. (b) Repealed. (c) Funding for healthy schools initiatives may be used as follows: (1) To provide additional funding for healthy school meals, the Office of the State Superintendent of Education shall reimburse public schools, public charter schools, participating pr…

(a)(1) Public schools, public charter schools, and participating private schools shall: (A) Serve nutritious and well-balanced meals to students. (B)(i) Provide meals with a vegetarian food option as the main course for breakfast and lunch every day at all grade levels; (ii) Rota…

(a) All breakfast, lunch, after-school snacks and suppers, and summer meals served to students in public schools, public charter schools, and participating private schools or by organizations participating in the Afterschool Meal Program or the Summer Food Service Program shall m…

(a)(1) Public schools, public charter schools, and participating private schools shall offer free breakfast to all students. (2) If more than 40% of the students at a school qualify for free or reduced-price meals: (A) A public elementary school, public charter elementary school,…

(a) During the 2020-2021 and the 2021-2022 school years, the Mayor shall operate a self-operated school food service pilot program ("pilot") in 10 public schools or the maximum number of schools that the funding appropriated will support. (1) By July 30, 2020, the Mayor shall: (A…

(a) Within 90 days of October 1, 2019, the Office of Planning shall submit a report to the Mayor and the Council describing best practices for developing a central kitchen in the District to: (1) Prepare, process, grow, and store healthy and nutritious foods for schools and nonpr…

(a) Food service providers shall provide the following information to public schools, public charter schools, participating private schools, and the Office of the State Superintendent of Education: (1) The menu for each breakfast and lunch meal served; (2) The nutritional content…

(a) Except as provided by subsection (b) of this section, all beverages and snack foods provided by or sold in public schools, public charter schools, and participating private schools or provided by organizations participating in the Afterschool Meal Program, whether through ven…

The Healthy Youth and Schools Commission shall review school nutrition and the requirements of this title at least every 3 years and recommend improvements to the Mayor and the Council.

Public schools and public charter schools shall serve locally grown, locally processed, and unprocessed foods from growers engaged in sustainable agriculture practices whenever possible. Preference shall be given to fresh unprocessed agricultural products grown and processed in t…

(a) Before February 15, 2013, the City Administrator shall transmit to the Council and to the Healthy Youth and Schools Commission a comprehensive food services plan that shall include: (1) A plan to reduce the cost of providing food services in the District of Columbia Public Sc…

(a) Before December 31, 2019, the District of Columbia Public Schools ("DCPS") shall conduct a Good Food Purchasing Program ("GFPP") baseline assessment to determine how DCPS can better meet the GFPP core values. (b) DCPS shall use findings from the assessment required under subs…

(a) The Office of the State Superintendent of Education shall, in conjunction with the Department of Health, the Department of Parks and Recreation, the District Department of the Environment, the University of the District of Columbia, community organizations, food service provi…

Beginning September 30, 2020, and biennially thereafter, the Office of the State Superintendent of Education shall submit to the Mayor, the Council, and the Healthy Youth and Schools Commission a comprehensive report on the District's compliance with this chapter, which shall inc…

(a) It shall be the goal of the District of Columbia for children to engage in physical activity for at least 60 minutes each day or for the time period recommended for specific age groups in § 38-824.02. (b) Public schools and public charter schools shall promote this goal. (c) …

(a) Public schools and public charter schools shall schedule physical education classes for all students on a weekly basis, and recess for all students on a daily basis, throughout the school year as follows: (1)(A) For students in grades kindergarten through 5, it shall be the g…

(a) A student with disabilities shall have suitably adapted physical education incorporated as part of the individualized education program developed for the student. Public schools and public charter schools shall provide suitably adapted physical education or supplementary aids…

The Department of Parks and Recreation shall provide equal access and shall charge equal fees to both public schools and public charter schools for the use of its recreation centers, fields, playgrounds, and other facilities.

Beginning in 2020, and biennially thereafter, the Office of the State Superintendent shall include information regarding the following in the report required pursuant to § 38-823.03: (1) Compliance of public schools and public charter schools with the health education and physica…

(a)(1) An environmental programs office is established in the Department of General Services and shall: (A) Contract with vendors to recycle all materials required by District law at all public schools, including food services, by December 31, 2010, and provide technical assistan…

(a)(1) The Department of General Services ("DGS") shall: (A) Locate all drinking water sources at each public school and install a barcode on each of the drinking water sources; (B) Install a filter that reduces lead in drinking water on each drinking water source in each public …

(a) An Environmental Literacy Program is established within the Office of the State Superintendent of Education. The Environmental Literacy Program shall: (1) Coordinate the efforts of the District Department of the Environment, the District of Columbia Public Schools, the Public…

(a) A School Gardens Program is established within the Office of the State Superintendent of Education. The School Gardens Program shall: (1) Coordinate the efforts of community organizations, the Department of Parks and Recreation, the District Department of the Environment, the…

(a) As required by federal law, each local educational agency shall collaborate with parents, students, food service providers, and community organizations to develop, adopt, and update a comprehensive local wellness policy. Local wellness policies shall be revised at least once …

(a) On or before February 15 of each year, each public school and public charter school shall submit the following information to the Office of the State Superintendent of Education regarding each of its campuses: (1) Health programs: (A) Whether the school has full-time, part-ti…

(a) The Department of Health, in conjunction with the Department of Healthcare Finance, the District of Columbia Public Schools, the Department of General Services, and the Public Charter School Board, shall develop a plan to establish and operate school health centers in public …

The square footage of a nurse’s suite shall not be a determining factor as to whether or not a school nurse is placed at a public charter school; provided, that all other conditions as required by the Department of Health are met.

(a) Tobacco and tobacco products are prohibited in public school and public charter school buildings, grounds, parking lots, parking garages, playing fields, school buses and other vehicles, and at off-campus, school-sponsored events. (b) For a public charter school located in a …

Each public school and public charter school covered by the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System ("YRBSS") shall participate, at no cost to the school, in the YRBSS administered by the Office of the State Superintendent of Education pursuant to § 38-2602(b)(31).