Garfield Re-2 Policies

JLCB-R

Immunization of Students
 

1. No student may attend school in the district unless the student has presented to the school an up-to-date certificate of immunization, a written authorization signed by a parent/guardian requesting local public health officials administer the immunizations, or a valid certificate of medical or nonmedical exemption.

 

Please refer to the current standardized immunization documents developed and updated by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

 

  2.  A student will be exempted from required immunizations only upon submission      of:

 

a. a completed certificate of medical exemption from a licensed physician, qualified physician assistant, or advanced practice nurse that the student’s physical condition of the child is such that immunization would endanger the student’s life or health or is otherwise medically contraindicated due to other medical conditions;

 

b. A completed certificate of completion of the online education module administered by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

 

c. A completed certificate of nonmedical exemption signed by a parent/guardian or an emancipated student and a physician, qualified physician assistant, or advanced practice nurse.

 

In the event of an outbreak of any communicable disease for which immunization is required, no exemption will be recognized, and those students will be excluded from school.

 

  3. Parents/guardians or emancipated students who assert a nonmedical expemption must submit either a completed certificate of completion of the online education module administered by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment or a completed certificate of nonmedical exemption that is signed by a parent/guardian or emancipated student and a physician, qualified physician assistant, or advanced practice nurse on an annual basis. Such submission will occur at the beginning of each school year in which the non-medical exemption is asserted.

 

4. Parents/guardians or emancipated students who assert an exemption from immunizations based on a medical reason must submit the required medical exemption form to the school one time. The medical exemption form must be maintained on file at each new school the student attends.

 

5. Each school in the district annually provides the school’s specific immunization and exemption rates for the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine for the school’s enrolled student population for the previous school year, compared to the vaccinated children standard.

 

6. The district will provide, upon request, an immunization reporting form. The school nurse is responsible for seeing that the required information is included on the form and transferred to an official certificate of immunization as required.

 

7. If there is a failure to comply with the immunization requirements after 14 days, the school nurse will personally notify the parent/guardian or emancipated student.  Such notification will be accomplished either by telephone email, or in person.  If this is not possible, contact will be by physical mail.  Students age 18 and over or otherwise emancipated must be contacted directly rather than through their parents/guardians.

 

     The parent/guardian or emancipated student will be notified of the following:

 

1. that up-to-date immunizations are required under Colorado law.

 

2. that within fourteen (14) days of notification, the parent/guardian must submit one of the following: an authorization for administration of the immunization by public health officials: or a completed certificate of completion of the online education module administered by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment; or documentation to the school showing that the next  required immunization has been given; 
3. that if the required documentation is not submitted within fourteen (14) days of notification or if the student begins but does not continue or complete the written plan, the student will be suspended or expelled.

 

8. A student who fails to comply will be suspended by the principal for up to five days, and notice of the suspension will be sent to the Health Department in accordance with applicable law.

 

9. If no certificate of immunization is received during the period of suspension, the superintendent will institute proceedings for expulsion.

 

10. Any suspension or expulsion under this policy will terminate automatically upon compliance.

 

11. Record of any such suspension or expulsion will be contained in the student's health file, with an appropriate explanation, not in the student's disciplinary file. 

 

Any student expelled for failure to comply with the immunization requirements will not be included in calculating the dropout rate, but will be included in the annual report to the State Board of Education.

 

Students in Out-of-Home Placements

 

The following procedure applies to students in out-of-home placements, as that term is defined by C.R.S. 22-32-138 (1)(h).

 

Unless the district or school is otherwise authorized to deny enrollment to a student in out-of-home placement, the district or school must enroll the student regardless of whether the district or school has received the student’s immunization records. Upon enrolling the student, the school must notify the student’s legal guardian that unless the school receives the student’s certificate of immunization or a written authorization for administration of immunizations within 14 days after the student enrolls, the school will suspend the student until such time as the school receives the certificate of immunization or authorization.

 

Approved: July 25, 1978

Revised: June 26, 2001

Revised: September 25, 2001

Revised: November 27, 2007

Revised: September 27, 2011

Revised: October 9, 2018

 

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