49-2-207 - Policy pamphlets.
49-2-207. Policy pamphlets.
(a) The local board of education shall compile and publish an official operating policy pamphlet, which shall contain, but not be limited to, such procedures as have been established by letter, directive, written or verbal memorandum, custom or tradition, and by which schools are managed, operated or controlled. The policy pamphlet shall be updated annually.
(b) Pamphlet may mean a loose-leaf binder.
(c) A copy of the updated board of education operating policy pamphlet shall be distributed to each principal of each local school system to be kept on file and available in each school library during and immediately after normal school hours. Board of education operating policies kept in electronic format and available in each school library shall satisfy the requirements of this subsection (c).
(d) The local board of education shall file with the commissioner of education a copy of the updated board of education operating policy pamphlet.
(e) Added or amended policies and a notice of each deleted policy shall be kept on file and available in each school library, and a copy shall be filed with the commissioner.
(f) If a local board's operating policies are kept in electronic format, and if the board also maintains an Internet web site, then the board shall make its operating policies available and accessible on that web site.
(g) The commissioner shall be authorized and directed to take appropriate action to enforce this section.
[Acts 1970, ch. 522, § 1; 1974, ch. 654, § 37; 1979, ch. 112, § 1; T.C.A., § 49-250; Acts 2001, ch. 181, § 1; 2002, ch. 537, § 1.]