Title 49, Education

(a) A student participating in, or seeking to participate in, an athletic activity, and the student's parent or guardian must sign and return to the student's public school an acknowledgement of their receipt and review of a sudden cardiac arrest symptoms and warning signs inform…

This part is known and may be cited as the “School Turnaround Program Act.”

(1) As used in this part:(1) “Department” means the department of education;(2) “Non-participating school” means a priority school that is not assigned by the department to participate in the school turnaround program;(3) “Priority school” means a school placed in priority status…

(a) The department shall create and develop a school turnaround program for priority schools pursuant to § 49-6-3704. (b) The department shall select up to five (5) priority schools each year that are diverse in grade levels to participate in the program; provided, that no more t…

(a) The department shall use the same outcomes-based performance measures used in the state's accountability model to designate priority schools as schools in need of intervention for purposes of the school turnaround program. (b) Before the department designates a priority schoo…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b)(2), a local board of education shall require a priority school to participate in the school turnaround program if the department designates the school as a school in need of intervention. (b) (1) (A) A school in need of intervention that …

(a) By September 30 of the first school year in which a school in need of intervention is participating in the program, the respective local board of education shall establish a school turnaround committee for each school in the LEA that is participating in the school turnaround …

(a) The department shall establish the minimum qualifications required for independent school turnaround experts and provide LEAs with a list of at least two (2) qualified independent school turnaround experts. The list of qualified experts must be procured competitively and in c…

Subject to available funds, the department shall provide grants to local boards of education with schools in need of intervention to facilitate the implementation of interventions identified in an approved school turnaround plan, including the funding of contracts with qualified …

This part is known and may be cited as the “Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022.”

(1) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Library collection” means the materials made available to students by a school operated by an LEA or by a public charter school, but does not include materials made available to students as part of a course curr…

(a) Materials in a library collection must be suitable for the age and maturity levels of the students who may access the materials and must be suitable for, and consistent with, the educational mission of the school. (b) For purposes of this section, a material that:(1) In whole…

(a) Each LEA shall designate a foster care liaison to facilitate LEA compliance with state and federal laws related to students who are in foster care and to collaborate with the department of children's services to address educational barriers for students in foster care. (b) Th…

(a) An LEA may establish a building point of contact in each elementary school, middle school, and high school to assist in coordinating services and resources pursuant to § 49-6-3901(b) for students in foster care. These points of contact must be appointed by the director of sch…

This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Student and Employee Safe Environment Act of 1996.”

(a) (1) Each local board of education and charter school governing body shall adopt a discipline policy to apply to the students in each school operated by the LEA or charter school governing body.(2) A local board of education or charter school governing body may implement, as p…

The principal of each school shall apply the code of conduct uniformly and fairly to each student at the school without partiality or discrimination.

Each local board of education or charter school governing body may choose to adopt different but consistent discipline policies or codes of conduct to apply to different classes of schools, such as elementary, middle, junior high, and senior high schools, under its jurisdiction. …

(a) In addition to criminal penalties provided by law, there is created a civil cause of action for an intentional assault, personal injury or injury to the personal property of students or school employees when the assault occurs during school hours, on school property or during…

When a discipline policy or code of conduct has been adopted by a local board of education or charter school governing body, a copy must be posted on the LEA or school website. A copy must also be supplied to all school counselors, teachers, administrative staff, students, and pa…

(a) An LEA shall include in its student discipline code a provision prohibiting students from wearing, while on the grounds of a public school during the regular school day, clothing that exposes underwear or body parts in an indecent manner that disrupts the learning environment…

(a) “Junior high schools” are schools in which are taught any combination of grades corresponding to grade seven through grade ten (7-10); however, the school must include grade nine (9). (b) “Senior high schools” are schools in which are taught any combination of grades correspo…

Local boards of education are authorized and empowered to establish and maintain junior and senior high schools when, in the judgment of the boards, the system of public schools over which they exercise lawful control will, by the employment of this type of school organization, b…

(a) There shall be maintained in each county of the state one (1) senior high school, which shall give at least one (1) full course of study approved by the state board of education. Local boards of education may establish additional high schools. (b) (1) No junior high school sh…

All teachers of any type of high school provided in this part shall be qualified by education or otherwise for giving instruction in the subjects of the course of study, and no person shall be employed to teach any subject or subjects in the schools who does not hold a license is…

(a) Upon the completion of a junior high school course of study, pupils shall be given certificates of promotion to the next grade of the school system. (b) (1) On completion of a course of study in a senior high school, as provided in this part, pupils shall be given diplomas of…

(a) If a public senior high school provides access to student directory information to persons or groups that make students aware of occupational or educational options, then the public senior high school shall provide access to the same information on the same basis to official …

(a) (1) Each LEA shall adopt and use the uniform grading system developed by the state board of education for students enrolled in grades nine through twelve (9-12) and for students enrolled in eighth grade for the grades achieved on high school courses. Each LEA must report stud…

(a) Beginning January 1, 2017, except as provided in subsection (c), a student, during the student's high school career, shall be given a United States civics test composed of questions from the one hundred (100) questions that are set forth within the civics test administered by…

(a) The department of education shall develop alternative methods by which adult students attending adult high schools may meet requirements that condition the receipt of credit for a course on a minimum number of contact hours. The alternative methods may be in lieu of all or pa…

(a) “Secondary education” means education normally available and required by state standards to be taught to children enrolled in grades seven through twelve (7-12). (b) A secondary school is a school that provides secondary education.

This part shall be known and may be cited as the “School Discipline Act.”

Every school bus driver is authorized to hold every pupil strictly accountable for any disorderly conduct on any school bus going to or returning from school or a school activity.

(a) (1) Any teacher or school principal may use corporal punishment in a reasonable manner against any pupil for good cause in order to maintain discipline and order within the public schools.(2) (A) Notwithstanding subsection (a)(1), prior to the administration of corporal punis…

Each local board of education shall adopt rules and regulations it deems necessary to implement and control any form of corporal punishment in the schools in its district.

(a) No action taken by a teacher or principal pursuant to this part shall be grounds for the issuance of an arrest warrant or for the pressing of criminal charges against the teacher or principal, unless a report of an investigation by appropriate law enforcement officials along …

(a) An LEA or public charter school may continue a disciplinary investigation of a student who, during the investigation, withdraws from the LEA or public charter school. (b) If a student withdraws from an LEA or public charter school during a disciplinary investigation of the st…

(a) A teacher, principal, school employee or school bus driver, in exercising the person's lawful authority, may use reasonable force when necessary under the circumstances to correct or restrain a student or prevent bodily harm or death to another person. (b) Subsection (a) does…

(a) Upon the request of the department of education, each LEA shall submit a report to the department detailing the LEA's use of corporal punishment. The report shall include, at a minimum:(1) The school at which each instance of corporal punishment occurred;(2) Information regar…

(a) As a strategy to address adverse childhood experiences, as defined in § 49-1-230, each LEA and public charter school shall adopt a trauma-informed discipline policy. Each trauma-informed discipline policy must:(1) Balance accountability with an understanding of traumatic beha…

(a) Upon receiving a written request from the parent or guardian of a high school student, or a high school student who is eighteen (18) years of age or older, who is attempting to enroll in a postsecondary institution for the purpose of taking one (1) or more postsecondary cours…

(a) An LEA shall make an interest inventory such as the Kuder assessment, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® personality inventory, the ASVAB, the College Board Career Finder, or other interest or career inventory available to public middle schoolers or ninth graders to assist students…

(a) A student attending a public high school is encouraged to participate voluntarily in at least ten (10) hours of community service each semester that the student is in attendance. The community service shall comply with the rules promulgated by the state board of education und…

(a) Beginning with the 2018-2019 school year, every LEA shall make available to students enrolled in its high schools opportunities to take at least four (4) early postsecondary opportunities, as defined by the department of education. These opportunities may be provided through …

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Home district” means the LEA in which a student is enrolled full-time prior to enrollment in a recovery high school; and(2) “Recovery high school” means a public school:(A) For students who have a primary or secondary alcohol or other drug abuse o…

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Eligible school” means a public high school that is eligible to participate in the community eligibility provision under the national school lunch program pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1759a; and(2) “Feminine hygiene product”:(A) Means any product to be…