CSBA provides background information and analysis on critical and current education issues that impact California’s children. Representing CSBA to state administrative agencies and educational organizations, CSBA monitors state and national educational policy-making activity, advising board members, superintendents, and state and national leaders of the impact of such activity on local school governance. The association assumes a proactive policy advisory role by anticipating the critical education issues affecting school districts and county offices of education.

• 2009 Policies in Review

Categorical Flexibility

• Policy Advisory: Policy Implications of Categorical Program Flexibility (12/09)

Instructional Materials

• Sample Exhibit: Resolution on Sufficiency of Textbooks or Instructional Materials (9-14-09)

Student Health

Asthma

• Green Schools: An Overview of Key Policy Issues (11/09)
• Indoor Air Quality Resources: EPA’s Tools for Schools, Fact Sheet (3/09)
• Indoor Air Quality: Governing Board Actions for Creating Healthy School Environments (7/08)
• Asthma Management in the Schools (3/08)

Diabetes

• Court ruling limits insulin administration to licensed nurses (6/10)

HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health Instruction

• CSBA’s sample BP/AR 6142.1 – Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS Prevention Instruction (7/08)

Influenza

• Swine Flu Fact Sheet (4/09) 
• Pandemic Influenza (9/07)
  

Mental Health

• Mental Health Services Act (Proposition 63) (10/07)

Nutrition

• Providing Access to Nutritious Meals During Summer (6/10)
• Nutrition Standards for Schools (10/07) 
• Food Safety Requirements (10/07) 
• School Based Marketing of Food and Beverages (3/06)

Selected CSBA sample policies on nutrition and food safety

• BP/AR 3552 - Summer Meal Program (7/10)
• BP 3550 Food Service/Child Nutrition Program (revised 11/07) 
• AR 3550 Food Service/Child Nutrition Program (revised 11/07) 
• BP 5030 Student Wellness (revised 11/07)
  

Oral Health

• Promoting oral health for California’s students: New roles, new opportunities for schools (11/08)

Parent Notification

• BP 5022(a) Student and family privacy rights

Physical Education/Physical Activity

• Sample Policies: Physical Education and Activity
  BP 6142.7: Physical Education and Activity
  AR 6142.7: Physical Education and Activity
• Sample Policies: Safe Routes to School Program
  BP 5142.2: Safe Routes to School Program
  AR 5142.2: Safe Routes to School Program
  
• Sample Policy: Joint Use Agreements
• Fact Sheet: Active Bodies, Active Minds - Physical Activity and Academic Achievement (2/10)
• Policy Brief: Maximizing Opportunities for Physical Activity through Joint Use of Facilities (2/10)
• Fact Sheet: Maximizing Opportunities for Physical Activity during the School Day  (11/09)
• Fact Sheet: Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity in Physical Education to Improve Health and Academic Outcomes (11/09)
• PA/PE Policy Brief: A survey of district/county office of education perceptions and practices (updated 4/10)
• Policy Brief: Safe Routes to School: Program and policy strategies (9/09) 
                                                   
• Sample Policies: Safe Routes to School Program
  BP 5142.2 - Safe Routes to School Program
  AR 5142.2 – Safe Routes to School Program
• Physical Education and California Schools (10/07)

Steroids

• Steroids And Students: What Boards Need To Know (07/05)

Student Health Services

• Expanding Access to School Health Services (11/08)

Sun Safety

• Sun Safety in Schools (7/06)

Wellness

• Policy Brief: Expanding access to school health services: Policy considerations for governing boards (11/08)
• School Wellness Policy Development, Implementation and Evaluation
• Research Implications for School Board Members  (5/08)
• Research Implications for State Public Health Nutrition Directors and School Wellness Advocates (5/08)
• Research Implications for State School Boards Association Leaders (5/08)

School Safety 

• Cyberbullying in Schools: Policy Considerations for Boards (7/10)
• Providing a Safe, Nondiscriminatory School Environment for All Students (4/10)

Parent Involvement

CSBA has developed a policy brief, worksheet and sample policies and administrative regulation to help districts fulfill the requirement to develop policies on parent involvement.  To see these resources, visit our section on Parent Involvement Policies.

Youth

• CSBA’s sample policy for foster youth:  BP/AR 6173.1 – Education for Foster Youth (11/09)
• Educating Foster Youth: Best practices and board considerations (3/08)

Williams Settlement

• Williams settlement and the emergency repair plan (1/08)