Title 17 — Education

I Liheslaturan Guåhan finds that the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards ('NBPTS') was established in 1987 as an independent, nonprofit organization to establish high and rigorous standards for teachers; to develop and operate a national voluntary system to assess …

(a) The Department of Education may pay one-half (1/2) of the NBPTS participation fee and provide, if determined to be necessary by the Department of Education, substitute pay for a maximum of five (5) days of approved paid leave for teachers participating in the NBPTS program. A…

In addition to the NBPTS certification requirements, all other Guam certification requirements shall be met for any pay differential allowed under § 5B104 of this Chapter.

The Director of Administration shall determine, through rules and regulations, appropriate pay grades or differential amounts for teachers who are NBPTS certified. This Section shall apply to all NBPTS Certified teachers, not just those who received assistance under the provision…

Specialists. The Commission shall be the Educator Certification authority for Reading Specialists no later than the earlier of the completion of a transition period following the enactment of this Chapter or October 1, 2008. SOURCE: Added by P.L. 29-073:3 (May 9, 2008). ---------…

It shall be the duty of the Board to adopt and place into effect for the public schools of Guam standards and standard practices regarding hours of commencement of schools and classes, recesses, lunch periods and hours of discontinuance of classes. (a) Such standards and standard…

(a) Any parent, guardian or other person having control or charge of any child who is at least five (5) years of age and has not reached the age of eighteen (18) years, not exempted under the provisions of this Article, shall send the child to a public or private full-time day sc…

(a) Any child whose fifth birthday falls on or before the commencement date of classes may, in such year, enroll in the kindergarten of any public school within Guam which the child is otherwise eligible to attend, except that any child whose fifth birthday falls within one hundr…

The Department of Education shall, prior to the start of School Year 1998-1999, develop a policy and implement procedures by which children, who will have reached the age of five (5) within one hundred twenty-five (125) days after the beginning date of classes on the school calen…

Notwithstanding the provisions of § 6102 of this Chapter, for the School Year 1997-1998, any parent, guardian or other person having control or charge of any child who will reach the age of five (5) years within one hundred twenty-five (125) days after the beginning of classes, m…

Notwithstanding the provisions of §§ 6103 and 6104, beginning with the School Year 2002 - 2003, all students must be at least five (5) years of age by July 31 of each year for enrollment in kindergarten for that school year. The Department of Education shall announce the starting…

Enrollment Age for Children. Notwithstanding the provisions of § 6103 of this Chapter regarding the beginning date of classes for each school, the Interim Governing Board and the District Boards may use the last day of the month in which classes begin for determining the minimum …

The Board shall establish identification and enrollment policies for children who are academically gifted. The policy shall provide that a child who is academically gifted may be enrolled even though the COL 20240430 child has not reached the age required by § 6103 of this Title,…

[Repealed.] SOURCE: GC § 11402. Codified as 17 GCA § 6105. Amended by P.L. 24-142:11 (Feb. 27, 1998). Repealed and reenacted to this section by P.L. 26-026:3 (July 5, 2001). Amended by P.L. 26-104:3 (June 11, 2002). Repealed by P.L. 31-108:1 (Sept. 30, 2011). 2013 NOTE: This sect…

Children not attending a private full-time day school, and who are being instructed in study and recitation for at least three (3) hours a day for one hundred seventy (170) days each calendar year by a private tutor or other person in the several branches of study required to be …

All pupils shall comply with the regulations adopted by the Board, pursue the required course of study and submit to the authority of the teachers of the schools and other professionals of the schools. SOURCE: GC§ 11405. Codified as 17 GCA § 6109. Amended by P.L. 24-142:11 (Feb. …

The parent or guardian of any pupil who willfully cuts, defaces or otherwise injures in any way any property, real or personal, belonging to a school or the Department of Education, shall be liable for all damages so caused by the pupil. The parent or guardian of a pupil shall be…

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 …