Title 38 — Educational Institutions.

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(a) The Board of Education shall determine all questions of general policy relating to the schools and the Superintendent shall implement such policy. The Board of Education shall appoint and evaluate the Superintendent who shall be responsible for the day-to-day operation of the…

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The members of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia shall not be personally liable in damages for any official action of the Board performed in good faith in which the members participate; nor shall any member of the Board be liable for any costs that may be taxed a…

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There shall be appointed by the Board a Supervisor of Manual Training who, under the direction of the Superintendent, shall have supervision of manual training instruction.

The Board of Education shall classify all academic and scientific subjects in the Central, Eastern, Western, and Business High Schools, and the McKinley Manual Training School into 8 departments so that each department shall contain correlated subjects, and the M Street High Scho…

Whenever a department includes 2 or more high schools, then the teacher in charge of the department shall be designated “head of the department,” otherwise the teacher in charge of the department shall be designated “head teacher”; provided, that heads of departments as such have…

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When a teacher is on trial or being investigated he or she shall have the right to be attended by counsel and by at least 1 friend of his or her selection.

Wherever the masculine pronoun occurs in this chapter it shall be construed to apply to either male or female teachers or employees of the Board of Education.

(a) The annual District of Columbia Public Schools (“DCPS”) budget submission shall identify and list all donations, whether monetary or gifts in kind, of $100,000 or more, donated to DCPS, in a single donation or in multiple donations by a benefactor, for its benefit or purpose,…

(a)(1) By January 1, 2011, the District of Columbia Public Schools, shall submit, in accordance with § 1-204.56a, comprehensive, measurable, objective agency performance measures that are to be included in the next 4 budget submissions for the purposes of measuring the agency’s p…

The Chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools is authorized to accept the resignation or the application for retirement of any employee, to grant leave of absence to any employee, to extend or terminate any temporary appointment, and to make all changes in personnel a…

The authority conferred on the Superintendent of Schools by § 38-131 shall, during his authorized absence, devolve on the person designated as acting Superintendent of Schools.

The Board of Education shall have power to make all necessary rules and regulations for the organization and government of the normal schools, to prescribe the course of study to be pursued therein, and to fix terms for the admission and graduation of pupils; provided, that the B…

The Board of Education of the District of Columbia is hereby authorized to employ such personnel for the education of pages as may be required and to pay compensation for such services in accordance with such rates of compensation as the Board of Education may prescribe.

(a) The Board of Education and the Mayor of the District of Columbia shall jointly develop procedures to assure the maximum coordination of educational and other municipal programs and services in achieving the most effective educational system and utilization of educational faci…

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The Mayor is hereby authorized to adopt, alter and use a seal which shall be judicially noticed, and to prescribe rules and regulations as may be deemed necessary to implement this section.

The Mayor, with the consent of the Council by resolution, shall have the power to raze structures. The razing of any building, structure, or part of any building or structure that is on the National Register of Historic Places, the District of Columbia inventory of historic sites…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, rule, or regulation, the District of Columbia Public Schools shall contract out, beginning in School Year 1995-96 and Fiscal Year 1996, all food services operations and security services for the D.C. Public Schools unless the Chancellor determin…

Pursuant to section 101(1)(c) and (d) of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps Vitalization Act of 1964, approved October 13, 1964 (78 Stat. 1063; 10 U.S.C. § 2031(c) and (d)), the Board of Education, beginning in the 1995-96 School Year, shall request and ensure that active duty …

(a) The State Education Office and the District of Columbia Public Schools shall hire an independent contractor to perform a census of the enrolled students in the D.C. Public Schools as well as the school employees, their job classifications, and duties. (b) The independent cont…

The District of Columbia Public Schools shall submit to the Board of Education by January 1st and July 1st of each year a Schedule A showing all the current funded positions of the District of Columbia Public Schools, their compensation levels, and indicating whether the position…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, not to exceed 25 foreign students who are in the United States on valid unexpired student visas may be permitted to attend the District of Columbia Teachers College each year on the same basis, so far as payment of tuition and fees are …

Pursuant to § 1-204.04(b), the Council establishes the District of Columbia Public Schools (“DCPS”) as a separate cabinet-level agency, subordinate to the Mayor, within the executive branch of the District of Columbia government.

(a) The Mayor shall govern the public schools in the District of Columbia. The Mayor shall have authority over all curricula, operations, functions, budget, personnel, labor negotiations and collective bargaining agreements, facilities, and other education-related matters, but sh…

(a) The Mayor shall submit the budget for DCPS pursuant to § 1-204.42, along with a plan detailing the allocation of funds to each DCPS public school by program and activity level and comptroller source group. (b) The Council may, following its review of the plan submitted pursua…

(a) The DCPS shall be administered by a Chancellor, who shall be appointed pursuant to § 1-523.01(a), and in accordance with subsection (b) of this section. The Chancellor shall: (1) Be the chief executive officer of DCPS; (2) Be qualified by experience and training for the posit…

(a) The Chancellor may contract for advertisements and sponsorships for athletics, community engagement events, educational programs, or facilities improvements designed to generate resources for the District of Columbia Public Schools. (b)(1) There is established as a special fu…

(a) All functions, authority, programs, positions, personnel, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds available or to be made available to the Board of Education, as the local education agency, established pursuant to § 1-204.95 …

(a) Pursuant to § 1-204.04(b), the Council establishes a Department of Education, subordinate to the Mayor. The department shall be headed by a Deputy Mayor for Education, who shall be appointed pursuant to § 1-523.01(a). (b) The Department of Education shall: (1) Have oversight …

Within 60 days of June 12, 2007, the Department of Education shall report to the Mayor and the Council on the status of: (1) The Special Education Task Force, and the development of the Special Education Reform Plan, established pursuant to § 38-2551; and (2) The implementation o…

(a) The Office of the Deputy Mayor for Education shall report to the Mayor and the Council, on an annual basis on or before the start of the third quarter of fiscal years 2012 through 2016, on the capacity of District-funded service providers to meet the need and demand for adult…

(a)(1) By October 1 of each year, beginning in 2009, and every year thereafter, an evaluator shall be retained to conduct an independent evaluation of District of Columbia Public Schools (“DCPS”) and of any affiliated education reform efforts. The evaluation shall be conducted ac…

(a)(1) There is established a Common Lottery Board (“CLB”) within the Department of Education. The purpose of the CLB shall be to develop and maintain a common lottery system for admission to public schools in the District of Columbia and shall: (A) Adopt policies and procedures …

(a) There is established as a special fund the Common Lottery Board Fund (“Fund”), which shall be administered by the Deputy Mayor for Education in accordance with subsections (c) and (d) of this section. (b) Deposits into the Fund shall include: (1) Appropriated funds; (2) Gifts…

For the purposes of this subchapter, the term: (1) Repealed. (2) “District” means the District of Columbia. (2A) “Educational institution” means a school in the District of Columbia Public Schools system, a public charter school, an independent school, a private school, a parochi…

(a) Every parent, guardian, or other person, who resides permanently or temporarily in the District during any school year and who has custody or control of a minor who has reached the age of 5 years or will become 5 years of age on or before September 30th of the current school …

(a) An accurate daily record of the attendance of all minors covered by § 38-202 and this section shall be kept by the teachers of each educational institution. These records shall be open for inspection at all times by the Board, the Superintendent of Schools, school attendance …

The Board, or its designee, shall conduct annually, or as frequently as may be found necessary or desirable, a complete census of all minors 3 years of age or more who permanently or temporarily reside in the District. The census record shall be amended from day to day as changes…

The principal, head teacher, or teacher who gives private instruction of each educational institution shall, in accordance with the rules adopted by the Board pursuant to subchapter I of Chapter 5 of Title 2 [§ 2-501 et seq.], report to the Board the name, address, sex, and date …

Any parent, guardian, custodian, principal, or teacher of a minor who has reached the age of 3 years who willfully neglects or refuses to provide the information required by §§ 38-202 through 38-206, or who knowingly makes any false statement, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(a)(1) The Office of the State Superintendent of Education, after consultation with the District of Columbia Public Schools, the Public Charter School Board, the Child and Family Services agency, and the Metropolitan Police Department, shall establish truancy centers in the Distr…

(a) If a minor student accumulates 10 unexcused absences during a school year, the educational institution shall notify the Metropolitan Police Department within 2 business days after the 10th unexcused absence. (b) Within 2 business days of the 10th unexcused absence, the educat…

By July 15 of each year, beginning in 2014, the Office of the Attorney General shall submit to the Mayor and the Secretary to the Council a truancy status report on the preceding school year, which shall include the number of: (1) Referrals it received from each educational insti…

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