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USA Statutes : missouri
Title : EDUCATION AND LIBRARIES
Chapter : Chapter 171 School Operations
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The school board of each school district in the state may make
all needful rules and regulations for the organization, grading and
government in the school district. The rules shall take effect when a
copy of the rules, duly signed by order of the board, is deposited with
the district clerk. The district clerk shall transmit forthwith a copy of
the rules to the teachers employed in the schools. The rules may be
amended or repealed in like manner. (L. 1963 p. 200 § 11-1)
(Source: RSMo 1959 § 163.010)
CROSS REFERENCES: Admission of nonresident pupils, RSMo 167.151 Summary
suspension of pupils, RSMo 167.171 Suspension or expulsion of pupils by
board, RSMo 167.161
1. Every school in this state which is supported in whole or in
part by public moneys, during the hours while school is in session, shall
display in some prominent place either upon the outside of the school
building or upon a pole erected in the school yard the flag of the United
States of America.
2. Every school in this state which is supported in whole or in part by
public moneys shall ensure that the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of
the United States of America is recited in at least one scheduled class
of every pupil enrolled in that school no less often than once per week.
No student shall be required to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. (L. 1963
p. 200 § 11-2, A.L. 2002 S.B. 718)
(Source: RSMo 1959 § 163.030)
If the school board of any school district in the state provides
access to persons or groups which make students aware of occupational or
educational options, the board shall provide access on the same basis to
official recruiting representatives of the military forces of the state
and of the United States for the purpose of informing students of
educational and career opportunities available in the military. (L. 1981
H.B. 717 § 1)
1. Each school board shall prepare annually a calendar for the
school term, specifying the opening date and providing a minimum term of
at least one hundred seventy-four days and one thousand forty-four hours
of actual pupil attendance.
2. No school day shall be longer than seven hours except for vocational
schools which may adopt an eight-hour day in a metropolitan school
district and a school district in a first class county adjacent to a city
not within a county. (L. 1963 p. 200 § 11-3, A.L. 1973 H.B. 158, A.L.
1983 S.B. 39, A.L. 1984 H.B. 1456 & 1197, A.L. 1987 S.B. 23, A.L. 1992
S.B. 485, A.L. 1993 S.B. 194, A.L. 2003 S.B. 686)
1. Except as provided in subsections 3 and 4 of this section, no
school district shall be exempt from any requirement to make up any days
of school lost or canceled due to inclement weather, unless that school
district schedules at least two-thirds as many make-up days for a school
year as were lost in the previous school year, which days shall be in
addition to the school calendar days required for a school term by
section 171.031.
2. If, after using the make-up days referred to in subsection 1, a
district does not meet the requirement for a term of one hundred
seventy-four days of actual pupil attendance, it shall be required to
make up no more than eight additional days of school lost or canceled due
to inclement weather and half the number of days lost or canceled in
excess of eight days.
3. In the 2002-03 school year, a school district may be exempt from the
requirement to make up days of school lost or canceled due to inclement
weather occurring after November 20, 2002, in the school district, but
such reduction of the minimum number of school days shall not exceed five
days when a district has missed more than seven days overall, such
reduction to be taken as follows: one day for eight days missed, two days
for nine days missed, three days for ten days missed, four days for
eleven days missed, and five days for twelve or more days missed. The
requirement for scheduling two-thirds of the missed days into the next
year's calendar pursuant to subsection 1 of this section shall be waived
for the 2003-04 school year.
4. The commissioner of education may provide, for any school district in
which schools are in session for twelve months of each calendar year that
cannot meet the minimum school calendar requirement of at least one
hundred seventy-four days and one thousand forty-four hours of actual
pupil attendance, upon request, a waiver to be excused from such
requirement. This waiver shall be requested from the commissioner of
education and may be granted if the school was closed due to
circumstances beyond school district control, including inclement
weather, flooding or fire. (L. 1978 S.B. 954 § 2, A.L. 1982 S.B. 832,
A.L. 1994 S.B. 442, A.L. 1997 H.B. 797, A.L. 2001 H.B. 274, A.L. 2003
H.B. 554)
Effective 4-8-03
CROSS REFERENCE: Make-up days lost due to inclement weather when and how
made up, RSMo 160.041
School holidays include Thanksgiving Day, December twenty-fifth,
the third Monday in February, and July fourth. (L. 1963 p. 200 § 11-5,
A.L. 1969 p. 85)
(Source: RSMo 1959 § 163.020)
Effective: 1-1-71
1. The general assembly hereby finds and declares that:
(1) The Future Farmers of America Organization (FFA Organization),
Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) and 4-H programs
in the state and the organized competitions held as a part of the
Missouri state fair involve an education and learning process that is not
otherwise available in the regular curriculum of secondary education in
Missouri;
(2) The principles and practices learned by students in such programs are
highly beneficial to students;
(3) Participation in such programs should be encouraged; and
(4) One method of encouraging participation in such programs is to allow
such participation to be counted as school attendance for the purpose of
determining state school aid.
2. It is the purpose and intent of this section to assure that
participation of students in sanctioned activities of such programs be
allowed to such extent as may be determined appropriate by the school
boards of the various school districts.
3. Any school district which allows an excused absence for athletics or
any other extracurricular school activity shall allow, pursuant to its
written policy and with the approval of the responsible sponsoring school
employee, any student enrolled in the district to use such regularly
scheduled instructional time as is reasonably necessary for such student
to participate in an officially sanctioned activity of any such program;
provided, if the program is not a part of the Missouri state fair or 4-H,
that such program has a local chapter which is officially recognized by
the student's school.
4. For the purpose of distributing state school aid pursuant to section
163.031, RSMo, a student who is participating in an officially sanctioned
activity of any such program, as provided pursuant to subsection 3 of
this section, shall be considered to be attending regularly scheduled
instruction in the district and such hours of participation occurring
during the regular school day shall be included in the district's
calculation of average daily attendance, as defined in section 163.011,
RSMo. (L. 2004 S.B. 968 and S.B. 969)
The school board of any school district in this state may
provide for the gratuitous education of persons over twenty years of age,
resident in the school district. The gratuitous education, however, shall
be provided only out of revenue derived by the school district from
sources other than those described in section 3, article IX, of the
constitution of this state. (L. 1963 p. 200 § 11-9, A.L. 1967 p. 236,
A.L. 1973 H.B. 38)
(Source: RSMo 1959 § 163.160)
Effective 6-27-73
Each school board in the state may, under such terms and
conditions as it may determine, permit the use of its buildings and
grounds for adult education purposes. (L. 1967 1st Ex. Sess. p. 894 § 1)
The school board in each school district may authorize the sale
of any product or item made as a class project or activity from materials
purchased with district funds to any pupil enrolled in the schools of the
district. The selling price shall approximate the cost of the materials
only. (L. 1973 H.B. 232 § 2)
The school board of a seven-director district may provide
educational facilities and services for pupils residing on lands acquired
by the federal government in the state of Missouri for military or other
purposes. The board may operate schools on federal lands adjoining the
district if adequate plant facilities therefor are provided by the
federal government. (L. 1963 p. 200 § 11-10)
(Source: RSMo 1959 § 165.375)
CROSS REFERENCE: State aid for pupils residing on federal lands, RSMo
163.071
If any district in this state has an average daily attendance of
less than fifteen pupils as shown by the records of the last previous
school year, the state board of education, after investigation that
convinces it that it would be to the best interests of all concerned,
shall require the board to provide for the tuition and transportation of
the pupils of the district to other public schools. Separate records of
the attendance of pupils from the closed district shall be kept and the
district shall receive the same apportionment under section 163.031,
RSMo, as it would have received otherwise. For the first year after the
closing of a district, apportionment shall be made under section 163.031,
RSMo, to the closed district on the basis of the average daily attendance
of the preceding year and shall be paid by the closed district to the
districts receiving its pupils in proportion to the number of pupils
received by each. (L. 1963 p. 200 § 11-12, A.L. 2005 S.B. 287)
(Source: RSMo 1959 § 161.120)
*Effective 7-1-06
If any district in this state has an average daily attendance of
less than fifteen pupils as shown by the records of the last previous
school year, the state board of education, after investigation that
convinces it that it would be to the best interests of all concerned,
shall require the board to provide for the tuition and transportation of
the pupils of the district to other public schools. Separate records of
the attendance of pupils from the closed district shall be kept and the
district shall receive the same apportionment under subsection 1 of
section 163.031, RSMo, as it would have received otherwise. For the first
year after the closing of a district, apportionment shall be made under
subsection 3 of section 163.031, RSMo, to the closed district on the
basis of the average daily attendance of the preceding year and shall be
paid by the closed district to the districts receiving its pupils in
proportion to the number of pupils received by each. (L. 1963 p. 200 §
11-12)
(Source: RSMo 1959 § 161.120)
*This section was amended by S.B. 287, 2005, effective 7-1-06. Consult
RSMo 2000 for existing section.
The board of education of any elementary school district may
elect to maintain an elementary school in the district for grades one
through six only. In that event tuition shall be paid by the sending
district as provided in section 167.131, RSMo, for pupils in grades nine
through twelve. Pupils in grades seven and eight shall have the option of
attending any approved school in the county of residence or in an
adjoining county. (L. 1963 p. 200 § 11-13, A.L. 1973 H.B. 158)
(Source: L. 1961 p. 345 § 161.015)
Effective 7-1-74
1. As used in this section, a school fraternity or sorority is
any organization composed wholly or in part of public school pupils,
which seeks to perpetuate itself by taking in additional members from the
pupils enrolled in public high schools, junior high schools or elementary
schools on the basis of the decision of its membership rather than upon
the free choice of any pupil in the school who is qualified by the rules
of the board to fill the aims of the organization.
2. The school board of any school district, by rule, may prohibit
membership of pupils in school fraternities or sororities composed of
pupils in any high school, junior high school or elementary school in the
district, when it deems that membership in the fraternities or sororities
detrimentally affects the conduct and discipline of the schools in the
district. Any rule adopted under this subsection shall prescribe the aim
of school organizations which may be formed and the qualifications of
pupils eligible for membership therein. The board may adopt other rules
that are necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.
3. Upon the adoption of the rule authorized by subsection 2, the school
board may suspend, discipline and expel from the schools under its
control, any pupil who remains a member of, who joins or promises to
join, or who becomes pledged to become a member, or who solicits any
other person to join, promise to join or be pledged or to become a member
of a school fraternity or sorority. Upon direction of the board, by rule
or otherwise, the superintendent of schools may suspend and discipline
any person who violates the rule authorized by subsection 2 until the
time that the matter is considered by the board. (L. 1963 p. 200 § 11-14)
(Source: L. 1961 p. 348 §§ 1, 2)
Each public school of the state shall keep a daily register in
which shall be entered the name, age, date of entrance and record of
attendance of each pupil and the studies pursued by the pupil. (L. 1963
p. 200 § 11-15, A.L. 1977 H.B. 130)
(Source: RSMo 1959 § 163.140)
Work completed in schools accredited by the state board of
education shall be given full credit in requirements for entrance to and
classification in any educational institution supported in whole or in
part by state appropriation. (L. 1963 p. 200 § 11-17)
(Source: RSMo 1959 § 160.090)
In making purchases, the school board, officer, or employee of
any school district shall give preference to all commodities,
manufactured, mined, produced or grown within the state and to all firms,
corporations or individuals doing business as Missouri firms,
corporations, or individuals, when quality and price are approximately
the same; provided, however, that any board member, officer or employee
of a seven-director school district, any portion of which is located in a
first class county, selling or providing such commodities to the school
district shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor and shall forfeit his
position with the school district and provided further that any board
member, officer or employee of a seven-director school district, any
portion of which is located in a county of the second, third or fourth
class, selling or providing such commodities to the school district
except as provided in sections 105.450 to 105.458, RSMo, shall be guilty
of a class A misdemeanor and shall forfeit his position with the school
district. (L. 1963 p. 200 § 11-18 and p. 340 § 165.157, A.L. 1989 H.B.
493)
(Source: RSMo 1959 § 165.157)
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