Board Policies
The Board of Education has copies of its adopted policies, rules, and regulations governing student behavior and disciplinary procedures on file in each attendance center and accessible on the District’s website. These policies and procedures may be amended at any time. In the event of a conflict with the student handbook, current policies, rules, regulations, and law shall supersede. The use of corporal punishment as a disciplinary method of dealing with student behavior is not permitted as a matter of Bensenville School District 2 Policy and the Illinois School Code.
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- Background Information
- Section 1: School District Organization
- Section 2: Board of Education
- Section 3: General School Administration
- Section 4: Operational Services
- Section 5: Personnel
- Section 6: Instruction
- Section 7: Students
- Section 8: Community Relations
Background Information
The Board adopts policies to guide District operations and to comply with Illinois and Federal laws. Policy 2:240 governs policy development and adoption.
A Board may waive all or part of a policy at any time without amending the policy (except those provisions required by law).
Policy revisions are usually presented for first reading at a Board meeting and then considered for adoption at a subsequent meeting.
Many policies are primarily recitations of the legal requirements that District staff must follow. Other policies express the Board’s choices from among different options.
Draft policies are provided by the Illinois Association of School Boards (“IASB”). Careful review is needed for these drafts, because IASB often presents options that are not appropriate for all districts. Sometimes the drafts present highly-detailed action plans, which District counsel generally recommends against because they offer too many opportunities for errors that would be minor in nature but expose the District to liability for failure to follow its own policy.
In addition to its policies, the District also has Administrative Procedures. These are adopted by Administration instead of the Board. IASB supplies draft Administrative Procedures.