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Students

Awards for Achievement

The Board of Education encourages the professional staff to maintain a set of criteria and procedures for presenting awards to students for scholarship and distinguished service in school activities. The Superintendent or designee shall oversee the development of staff guidelines for review and approval of proposed trophies, prizes, scholarships, or other awards from non-school donors. 

The relationship between awards and relevant goals of the schools should be clear, and approval of student achievement awards from outside the school shall require affirmative answers to at least the following questions:

1.  Is the proposed award free from inappropriate personal or corporate gain and/or publicity?

2.  Are criteria for the award established by the professional staff or acceptable to the staff?

3.  Are the purposes, either implied or explicit, of the proposed award consistent with the goals of district schools?

Policy adopted: