Title 17, Education

If a pupil of any of the public or private schools of Guam is injured during school hours on school property, while traveling directly between the pupil’s home and school in public school buses, while participating in or attending any regularly approved, supervised activity of th…

(a) No student who is regularly and legally enrolled in a school within the Department of Education shall be refused to be placed in a classroom for which the student is eligible, as determined by the school administrator following guidelines established by the Board’s policies. …

Student activities money is all money raised with the approval of the Board by the efforts of students in connection with any activities of student organizations, including without limiting the generality of the foregoing, school supply, stores, clubs, athletic activities, school…

(a) There shall be established a Student Activities Money Committee within each school which shall oversee the receipts and expenditures of the student activities money, and shall make final approval of all expenditures in excess of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) from the Student …

The Student Activities Money Committee of any school having student activities money shall open a checking account and/or savings account in a commercial bank or savings and loan association on Guam in an account designated as the “School Student Activities Fund” (“Fund”) of the …

(a) [No text] (1) The Student Activities Money Committee of any school having student activities money shall appoint a student activities treasurer of that particular school. (2) Each student activities treasurer shall be bonded in accordance with standard government of Guam proc…

There is created a Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (“JROTC”) Fund (“Fund”) to be maintained separate and apart from all other funds of the government of Guam. (a) All money received by the government from the U.S. Department of Defense for the operation of the JROTC Progra…

There is hereby established a Summer School Fund for the deposit of fees collected from students enrolled in the Summer School Program, and into which shall be deposited such fees to be subsequently appropriated by I Liheslaturan Guåhan for the operation of the Summer School Prog…

The length of a school day for the kindergarten grade of a school shall be the same length of time as the school day for the elementary grades (first through fifth grades) of such school. The length of a school year for the kindergarten grade of a school shall be the same length …

(a) A government entity or school shall not release the date of birth, addresses, email addresses and phone numbers of a minor student without the consent of the minor student's parent or legal guardian, except to allow emergency medical personnel to contact the student's parent …

All public and charter schools on Guam that serve students in grades five (5) through twelve (12) shall provide menstrual hygiene products, such as tampons and sanitary pads, in the nursing or counselor’s offices of such schools; and, such products shall be provided to students a…

As used in this Article: (a) “Auxiliary services” means: (1) the supply for use by pupils attending non-public schools such standardized tests and scoring services as are in use in the public schools; (2) the provision of speech and hearing diagnostic services to pupils attending…

Students attending non-public schools may be furnished a program of auxiliary services if such services are available to pupils attending the public schools. Such service shall be of the same quality as that provided public school pupils. Auxiliary services related to Special Edu…

As used in this Article: (a) “Board” means the Guam Education Policy Board. (b) “Parent” means the parent, guardian or other person who has the custody or responsibility for the care of the child. (c) “Truant” means a pupil found to be absent from school without a reasonable and …

A pupil is a habitual truant if the pupil has incurred twelve (12) or more unexcused absences in a school year, and is of compulsory attendance age. If any pupil is a habitual truant, the principal of the pupil’s school shall request the Superintendent to file a petition concerni…

The Superintendent shall appoint employees of the Department of Education, as Attendance Officers. The Attendance Officers, any peace officer, principal, or dean may take into custody during school hours, without warrant, any truant found away from the truant’s home and who has b…

The attendance officer, upon taking a truant into custody, shall deliver the truant promptly either to the truant’s parent or to the school which the pupil attends. If the child is a habitual truant, the attendance officer, with the concurrence of the principal of the pupil’s sch…

The attendance officer shall promptly report to the Department of Education and to the parent the disposition made by the attendance officer of the truant. SOURCE: GC § 11464 added by P.L. 14-055:1 (July 23, 1977). Codified as 17 GCA § 6405. Amended by P.L. 21- 011:1 (Apr. 19, 19…

Any pupil who has once been adjudged a habitual truant, or who is again reported as a truant one (1) or more days, or is late to school for thirty (30) or more minutes on one (1) or more days without excuse, shall be reported by the Superintendent or the attendance officer to the…

If the Court, after hearing, finds that the allegations of habitual truancy are sustained by evidence, it may order that the child be detained and maintained in a school supervised by the Court for the remainder of the current school term, or it may order that the child be turned…

The attendance officer shall report monthly to the Superintendent the number and types of reports and requests made by each school on Guam pursuant to this Article, and whether each school within Guam has complied with the provisions of this Article. SOURCE: GC § 11467 added by P…

The Superintendent shall determine by regulation the grounds for suspension or expulsion of pupils from school, and the procedure whereby such suspension or expulsion is determined. (a) Such regulation shall include grounds for suspensions or expulsions, length of suspensions and…

In carrying out the provision of § 6409, the Superintendent may authorize the creation of a Student Discipline Advisory Council for each elementary and secondary school. Such Councils shall be given the power to establish standards of student behavior, and shall have authority to…

This Article shall be cited as The Common Sense in Medicating Students Law. SOURCE: Added by P.L. 30-055:XII:31 (Sept. 4, 2009).

(a) I Liheslaturan Guåhan finds that more and more schools and school districts across the country are resorting to policies that allow non-medical school personnel to require or recommend that students receive controversial psychotropic medical treatment as a means to control ch…

The Guam Education Policy Board shall adopt and implement policies prohibiting any school personnel from recommending the use of psychotropic drugs for any child. The provisions of this Section shall not prohibit school medical staff from recommending that a child be evaluated by…

The refusal of a parent or guardian having control of a child to administer or consent to the administration of any psychotropic drug to such child shall not, in and of itself, constitute grounds for the Child Protective Services Division of the Department of Public Health and So…

This Act shall be known as the “Protection of Minors’ and Student’s Rights Act.” SOURCE: Added by P.L. 31-201:1 (May 9, 2012).

(a) I Liheslaturan Guåhan finds that school districts throughout the nation routinely survey student populations to obtain demographic information that they will use for a variety of educational and non- educational purposes. (b) I Liheslatura further finds that some surveys may …

(a) Unless a government entity or school receives prior written informed consent from a minor’s or student’s parent or legal guardian, and provides for a copy of the document to be administered to be available for viewing at convenient locations and time periods, the government e…

[Recodified.] SOURCE: Added by P.L. 31-201:1 (May 9, 2012). Recodified as 17 GCA § 6121 by P.L. 32-029 (May 10, 2013).

If any provision of this Article or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the Article which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to that end the …

I Liheslaturan Guåhan finds that: (a) The use of educational settings to screen children and adolescents for “mental disorders” has led to parents not being given sufficient information about the purpose of such screenings and the COL 20240430 ramifications if they consent, such …

The Guam Department of Education shall: (a) prohibit the use of schools for any mental health or psychological screening or testing of any student, whether a non- emancipated minor or emancipated minor, without the express written consent of the parent or guardian; (b) the consen…

The consent form must include the following information: TO: (parent or guardian) FROM: (school or organization) [Particulars regarding name of screening program, where and when it will take place] FULL INFORMED CONSENT FOR MENTAL HEALTH OR PSYCHOLOGICAL SCREENING Mental health o…

Any surveys that are conducted pursuant to the provisions of 20 U.S.C. §1400 (Individual with Disabilities Education Act - IDEA) or its successors are exempt from the provisions of this Article. SOURCE: Added by P.L. 32-029:3 (May 10, 2013). ---------- COL 20240430

The Board shall adopt rules and regulations for the management and control of school property consistent with government of Guam standard property regulations.

(a) The Board, upon the written application of any responsible organization or group of at least seven (7) persons, may grant permission to use any school building or school ground as a community or recreation center for the entertainment and education of the People, and for the …

(a) The Board is authorized to enter into agreements with non-public schools for the mutual utilization of school equipment for non-religious purposes which is not being used, or if being used, during periods of non-use. (b) The Board shall adopt rules and regulations for the mut…

The use of school facilities by person(s) or group(s) during non-school hours is hereby authorized. (a) The Board may grant permission for the use of school facilities, including the gymnasium, theater, staff development center, and other Department facilities located at Tiyan, N…

Within ninety (90) days of the enactment of this Chapter, the Department shall review and revise all existing Department rules and regulations for the management and control of school property in order to authorize the commercial leasing of advertising space at the Department of …

Within ninety (90) days of the enactment of this Chapter, the Department of Education shall develop a schedule of fees for the commercial leasing of advertising space at Department of Education sports facilities. Immediately upon completion, the proposed schedule of fees shall be…

Advertising. Within ninety (90) days of the enactment of this Act, the Department of Education shall develop a standard lease agreement for commercial advertising at Department of Education sports facilities. Such standard lease agreement shall specify the Department’s rules and …

There is hereby created, separate and apart from all other funds of the government of Guam, a fund known as the Interscholastic Sports Fund (Fund) into which shall be deposited all fees collected from the commercial leasing of advertising space at Department of Education sports f…

Every person entering any campus maintained by the Department of Education shall immediately proceed to the administrative office of the school located on that campus and announce that person’s purpose for being on campus to the principal of that school or the principal’s designe…

Every person who at any time enters any school campus maintained by the Department of Education with the intent of entering into a fight with any person or causing disruption on said school campus is guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable by a fine of Three Hundred Dollars ($300.…