Garfield Re-2 Policies

The superintendent is empowered to close the schools or to dismiss them early in the event of hazardous weather or other emergencies that threaten the safety, health, or welfare of students or staff members. It is understood that the superintendent will take such action only after consultation with appropriate authorities. 

 

Parents, students, and staff members must be informed early in each school year as to how they will be notified in the event of emergency closings or early dismissals. 

 

In the event there is a hazardous weather event or other emergency that closes schools, employees who are required to work will be entitled to holiday pay plus their hourly rate at time and half for the hours worked.  Employees must have approval from their direct supervisor to work during these days.  

 

In the event the school is physically closed for an extended time due to the safety, health, or welfare of students and staff, all staff with direct student contact or associated with student attendance will not physically report to work unless notified otherwise. Instead, the district will utilize a form of remote instruction. Remote instruction allows students to access lessons provided by, and supported by, their regular teachers and allows students to continue their sequence of learning despite their inability to access facilities.

 

To ensure all students have the ability to access their lessons via remote instruction, the district will implement one-to-one devices at the beginning of the year for all students and maintain a limited supply of Internet hotspots for checkout. 

 

During days of remote instruction, teachers will take attendance and monitor student participation through one of the following definitions of “actively engaged in the educational process”:  logging into the online platform, completing an assignment, communicating with/the teacher through email, texts, or phone calls, demonstration of student learning, or a parent signing a form attesting to work completion. For situations that are out of the control of the student, days of remote instruction will be treated with the same exceptions as an excused absence in regard to work assigned.

 

The superintendent or their designee will develop administrative regulations or a plan for implementing this policy

 

Adopted: September 12, 1989

Revised: August 1994

Revised: February 28, 1995

Revised:     March 2004

Revised:     December 12, 2017

Revised:     August 10, 2020

Revised:             January 22, 2025

 

LEGAL REFS.: C.R.S. 22-1-112 (school year and national holidays)

C.R.S. 22-32-109 (1)(n) (Boards duty to determine number of instructional/ contact hours/days)

C.R.S. 22-33-101 et seq. (school attendance law)

1 CCR 301-39, Rules 2254-R-2.06 (Board may reduce teacher-pupil instructional/contact time; closings deemed by Board necessary for health, 

safety or welfare of pupils)

 

CROSS REFS.: IC/ICA, School Year/School Calendar

JLIB, Student Dismissal Precautions

 

Garfield School District No. Re-2, Rifle, Colorado