Garfield Re-2 Policies

KDA

Public Information/School Communication Program 

The Board believes that an effective communications program is a necessary component of a school system’s organization and operation.  It is through the concerned sharing of information, feelings, and ideas that we remain in accord with each other, the children to whom we are responsible, parents, and the community at large.  Our aim is to maintain an organization where cooperation, trust, and feelings of belonging exist in a climate of open problem-solving among individuals and groups within the district and community.  Therefore, the Board shall support the staff philosophically and financially in the organization, maintenance, and operation of an effective communications program.

District staff communication program

The district’s communication program shall:

1. Encourage a better understanding of the goals, needs and accomplishments of the total educational program.

2. Be a planned, systematic, two-way process in which the Board, superintendent, district employees, and the community shall be encouraged to work cooperatively in planning, implementing and evaluating the district’s communication program.

3. Include the use of a variety of methods such as meetings, electronic devices, letters, circulars, seminars, publications, and personal contacts.

4. Provide the communication channels necessary for resolving grievances and eliminating misunderstandings.

5. Encourage informal, as well as formal, methods of communication within and between building staff, departments, and grade levels.

Individual schools’ staff communication program

Each school’s communication program shall:

1. Encourage informal as well as formal methods of communication.

2. Include the use of a variety of methods such as meetings, electronic devices, publications, and personal contacts.

3. Supplement and support the general communications program of the district.

4. Encourage the development of unity within the district in a genuine spirit of cooperation.

District-level and school-level planning shall keep the above components in mind and provide for the cooperative implementation of the components.

The Board recognizes and supports the existing channels of communication created by such organizations as the coordinating council, the West Garfield Education Association, the accountability committee, and school/parent/staff councils.

Adopted: November 24, 1987

Revised: August 1994

Recoded: September 25, 2007

Reviewed: April 23, 2019

LEGAL REFS.: C.R.S. 22-2-117 (2) (waivers from State Board of Education; public notice required)

C.R.S. 22-7-101 through 22-7-107 (Educational Accountability Act

of 1971)  (local accountability programs)

C.R.S. 22-7-205 (local goals & objectives)

C.R.S. 22-7-207 (building level committee recommendations)

C.R.S. 22-11-101 et seq. (Educational Accreditation Act of 1998)

C.R.S. 22-32-109.1(2)(b) (safe school reporting requirements)

C.R.S. 22-35-109 (distribution of information regarding postsecondary enrollment options)

1 CCR 301-1, Rules 2202-R-2.01 et seq. (applicable regulations)

CROSS REFS.: AE, Accountability/Commitment to Accomplishment

BE and subcodes, School Board Meetings

BG, School Board Policy Process

BH, Communications with Staff

BHCA*, Board-Staff Meet and Confer Process

BDF, Advisory Committees

GBK, Staff Concerns/Complaints/Grievances
 

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