Durant Independent School District
District Administration
Board and District Policy
Concerning students, personnel, and community
Policy reference
The Durant Board of Education has published a policy reference manual that details board and district policy considering operations, business and support services, personnel, instruction, students, and community relations.
The manual is divided up into sections, and each section is available for viewing using Adobe Reader.
- Table of Contents
- Section A: School District
- Introduction, district legal description, philosophy, mission statement, and educational goals
- Section B: School Board Operations
- Legal status, election, office descriptions, meetings, board policy, and superintendent
- Section B Addition: Organizational Chart
- Relationship of board, administration, principals, faculty, and other personnel
- Section C: Business and Support Services
- Funds and finances, purchasing, bidding procedure, sale of property, safety and disaster procedures, buildings, grounds, equipment, textbooks, transportation, food service, telephone policy, worker's compensation, disability accommodations, fair labor, and assault and battery involving personnel
- Section D: Personnel
- Sexual harassment, nondiscrimination, grievance procedures, teachers, teacher assistants, employment, alcohol and drug use policy, athletic personnel, resignation, salary, leave of absences, expense reimbursement, support personnel, employee health, staff development, termination, principals, school bus drivers, school counselors, substitute teachers, and employee evaluations
- Section E: Instruction
- School calendar, attendance, school day, classes, volunteers, library, textbooks, internet use policy, field trips, curriculum, driver education, vocational programs, equal education opportunities, gifted students, extended school year, remediation, summer school, promotion and retention, grades, report cards, homework, honors, graduation requirements, testing, religion, and open records
- Section F: Students
- Attendance, enrollment, closed campus, transfer policy, withdrawal, health, immunization, substance abuse, parking, transportation, parental rights, athletics, fundraising, activity, extracurricular, behavior, dress code, discipline, and alternative school
- Section G: Community Relations
- Public information, media, athletics, complaints, indian tribes, visitors, and facility use
Board and personnel resources
- Board meeting schedule, agendas, and minutes
- View the location, date, and time of regularly-scheduled board meetings for the current year, the agenda for upcoming board meetings as they become available, and what was discussed and what action was taken at past board meetings
- Negotiated agreement
- The agreement between DISD and the Durant Education Association regarding the general contract, working conditions, compensation, rights, grievance, leave procedures for teachers
- Certified Personnel Job Descriptions
- Complete job descriptions for certified administrators, teachers, and other personnel
- Support Personnel Handbook
- General policies and job descriptions for non-certified district personnel